A determined effort to improve the condition of the more than 2,000 Jewish children in camps has been made in recent months by the Joint Distribution Committee and the OSE, in close cooperation with other private relief bodies.
Children in the internment camps are receiving weekly 500 kilograms of highly nutritive porridge, 2,000 kilograms of fruit and 250 kilograms of vitamins. In addition, children who were insufficiently clad have received suits of clothes and shoes.
As a result of this action, child mortality, which had been increasing dangerously, has fallen to zero and symptoms of scorbutic diseases have disappeared. The assistance is now directed at combating the anemic state of the children which, before the J.D.C.’s state of prostration.
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