Shanghai, Aug. 28.
INCE its beginning on November 2, 1937, and up to July 31, 1938, the Shanghai Refugee Children Nutritional Aid Committee has made and distributed 2,199,230 pounds of soyabean milk \d_3,424,675 pieces of bean re side cake to children below 14 years of age in all of the refugee camps in the city, it was revealed yesterday.
This Committee was organi ized by Dr. Tingean Li, Public Health Commissioner of Greater Shanghai, who realized the urgent need of supplementing the very meager diet which children were receiving in the refugee camps.
Adults can withstand nutritional deprivation for a certain period of time, for there are reserves to draw on, but growing children need vital materials to build up their bodies, otherwise they will become easy prey to diseases, or their physical development may be so impaired as to effect the health of their lifetime.
Children in the refugee corny ps of Shanghai today will be the citizens of Shanghai tomorrow and it was to safeguard the future generation that this work of supplying additional nourishment to refugee children became so, imperative.
Thanks to the kindness of the German community In Shanghai, $6,000 was secured for this work. A com= mittee was organized comprising of Mrs, Natalie Enssle as chairman, Miss Nellie Lee as secretary and teoasurer, Dr. H, T. Chen, Dr. W. Fu, Dr. T, C. Chi, Dr. H. C. Hou, Dr. H. Pedersen, and Dr Ernest Tso. Since February, Mrs. Dana Nance was elected to be the treasurer to relieve Miss Lee, and Mrs, RT. Bryan, Mrs, RT, Henry, Miss Carcle Lu, and Mrs, R. H, Larchar were invited to Join and help with, the work. They are an international group of pediatricians, nutritional Epeclalists, public health and social workers, "It" was decided by them that the best nutrition that could reach the greatest number with the fund available was soyabean milk. ceiving no milk or mill, less than the
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