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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCi-JION TRIBUTE TO SOVIET. LONDON, Jan. 18. The Health Committee of the League . •f Nations has visited Russia. It reports that a bright spot' in the Soviet regime ist its care of the children. The custom has grown up in Russia of volun tarily abandoning the 'children to the care of the state. The children are being cared for in a most comprehensive way. Though the nurses, receive 5000 roubles monthly, and are given food , supplies every second day their pay is stated to be negligible as it costs 8500 roubles to buy a cake of soap in Moscow. The LeagtTe of Nations Health Committee after visiting Russia reports that there were 2,000,000 cases of typhus reported in 1921, and the cholera is still increasing. As the Russian trains are no longer heated, it often happens that at the end of a journey passengers are found frozen to death in the carriages.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1922, Page 2
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159BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1922, Page 2
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