MALARIA WIPES OUT WHOLE VILLAGES
Received Friday 8.50 p.m. SHANGIIAT Feb. 14. Three TJnrra workers recently evacuated from Communist held South Shantung province, declared tbat tlie ■ people in the area were abysmally i3cking in medidal supplies. Malaria epidemics often wlped out whole villages and in Shantung the sick had to drag their own heds to the few medical wards. There was only one pair of obstetrical forceps in the area in which 14,000,000 live. The Unrra workers claimed that in fourteen rnonths, less than two per cent of TJnrra supplies sent to China: had gone to the Communist occupied districts and most of it was food which was not needed in the agrarian area. The three workers were evacuated when their lives were endangered by increasing Nationalist air raids.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 February 1947, Page 5
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