DEATH THROUGH NEGLECT AND SEMI-STARVATION
LONDON, Dec. 7. About 300 aged folks between 70 and 90 years of age, are dying in the Croydon area from neglect and semistarvation, says a report which the Public Assistance Committee of the Croydon Town Council is studying. Scores of these old persons are stated to be living alone in single rooms, which in some cases are only bombdamaged garrets. They are too weak to queue for food, and the cold weather is causing some of them to collapse. The council, at a meeting tomorrow, will recommend that a number of large houses be requisitioned and converted into hostels for aged sufferers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5
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108DEATH THROUGH NEGLECT AND SEMI-STARVATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5
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