The cod-liver-oil man" is the' latest addition to the picturesque! sights of the Moscow Streets for }which the American Relief Administration has made itself responsible. After the fashion of the once-familiar milkman, he drives around daily a huge cask mounted on a truck, -his route including all day nurseries and children's homes. He has no need, however, to cry his wares, for the authorities are on the look-out for him. They come carrying pails, which they place under the tap. He opens it, jets it run until the desired amount has been drawn off, and drives off, no mention being made of such matters as costs, "Sixty day nurseries and 17 children's homes supplied with this des-berately needed article in the last three days," said the cable acanointing the London office of the American Relief Administration (68, Eaten Square, S.W.) with this' new fashion of distributing-doses. Medicines and other supplies suitable for hospitals and nurseries are also being distributed in the same way."
Seventy-five varieties of drugs are now being imported into Russ: by the A.R.A., of which the most i rom the point of view of the. epidemics are quinine to fight malaria, tetra vaccine for cholera, and neosalvarsan fertyphus. Two hundred thousand doses of the. latter were recently ordered for use in the famine regions.
How the weakened, undernourished condition of the sufferers is kelping to swell the roll of deaths by disease is shown in a report recently received from Ufa. Her measles, not a "severe illness under normal circumstances for children, is killing 60 per cent. of those who happen to. catch it Stomach troubles are also claim-ug thousands of victims. Leather, lebeda (a weed), the cleanings of stables,' pulverized clay—there are -n an effort to satisfy the stomach's the food substitutes which the] natural craving for bulk.
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