DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS ON BRIDE SHIP
XEW YORK, May 22. Charges of iusanitary conditions, nvercrowding and iiiattention 011 tlie [iurt of the nurses alioard the war bride fransport, Zebulon Yance, were nrade by niothers o'f'H) babies stricken by if. mysterious. illness, the. jleathroll. from which has now increased to live, says the Xew York Daiiy Xews. A Erenchwoman declared tlie facilities for taking care of babies' bottles rtnd iaundrv were de])lorabJe. Army nurses who were assigneil to the war brides and infajits 011 the 13-day voyage from Le Ilavre, were indifferent to their welfare. Oue was often obviously drunk, she added. Oue hundred women and .11) babies were (|uar(ered in oue cabin. The Erencli woiuau 's liusband, who was an army doctor overseas, expressed Ihe opinion that the ailmcnt was an ncute bowel contamination. Their baby is among tliose still critically ill.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 May 1946, Page 5
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