ON THE SPOT WITH UNRRA
ce 3 ee Baad a letter written towards the end of December we take this extract dealing with UNRRA work to assist displaced persons in Germany. The letter was written by a New Zealand nurse, Miss Joyce M. Horner, who was formerly with the Plunket Society in Dunedin. HELPING PEOPLE TO "\VHEN we first came we had 4,000 D.P.'s (displaced persons) and 14 camps, some storie HELP TH EMSELVES and some wooden barracks, but we have transported many back to Poland, and some further south to better _ barracks. We are now left with 2,000-odd, and have them fairly comfortably housed, using a Building originally built and used for a baby hospital where ‘State babies’ were born. It is in the woods and centrally heated. We have 600odd Polish people there, all are quite happy. Then stone barracks, where factory-workers used to live, 975 Polish there, and a village where we have Baltic people, Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians, etc. They all have their own offices, schools, workshops, entertainment halls, etc., and I have a dispensary and clinic rooms ard infirmary in each. All these Projects are being established by degrees to encourage our people to work; the majority have worked as slave labour for years and now reaction has set in and they won't do anything at all. We are encouraging them to help themselves again. My job of course is to keep them healthy and prevent epidemics. All have been immunised against typhoid, typhus, diphtheria, and smallpox, and so far we have had no infectious diseases-the winter will be the test. I have set up clinics in all camps, and examine, weigh, and measure all babies up to 2 years, pre-school children 2-6 years, school. children to 16 years. Then we have pre-natal clinics, so all these people are under monthly supervision. V.D. clinics are held also, also T.B.. All kitchen workers and food handlers are examined each month, and later I am starting some Home Nursing classes for girls, so our health programme is coming on.... Clothing, especially for babies, seems to be the biggest problem I have. I see my babies with very little to wear and it makes me wish I had a quarter of the clothing our New Zealand babies have, especially woollens."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 350, 8 March 1946, Page 13
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381ON THE SPOT WITH UNRRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 350, 8 March 1946, Page 13
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