TERRORS OF RUSSIA.
CARING FOR THE CHILDREN. HANDED OVER TO STATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 18, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 17. The Health Committee of the League of Nations, which visited Russia, reports that a bright spot in the Soviet regime is the care of the children. The custom has grown up of voluntarily abandoning children to the care of the State, the children being cared for in a most comprehensive way. Though nurses receive five thousand roubles monthly and are given food every second day, the pay is negligible, as it costs 8500 roubles to buy a cake of coap in Moscow. Two million cases of typhus were reported in 1921, and 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. —Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1922, Page 5
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148TERRORS OF RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1922, Page 5
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