Conditions created by the famine in northern Lithuania have greatly affected Jewish school children, according to a bulletin issued by the Oze, Jewish health society, which is taking care of the children in 55 Jewish schools, with an enrollment of 54,000.
The teachers in these schools are now often compelled to settle disputes between pupils arising over mutual accusations of thefts of bread. Attendance at the schools rises and falls with the supply of bread. Parents of the starving children were largely engaged in trade with the farmers who are unable to make purchases this season because of the crop failure.
One thousand, four hundred and seventy children in the district are in immediate need of food. The society plans to instal kitchens in the schools.
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