For refugees the LR.C. has a special care, being financially interested in 20 camps of such, large and small. Last year one third of a million dollars was expended in this way. In refugee camps weaving and spinning efforts have been aided, one such effort (in kiangsi) having 700 workers producing straw sandals, cotton cloth, gauze and socks, as well as linen cloth from ramie. Improved spinning machines have been furnished in a number of instances.
"Warphans," to the number of 10,000, have been helped with drugs, specially with cod liver oil For students the International Red Cross has a special care, and in Kunming, Kweiyang and Chungking grants are being made which aim at prevention as well as cure, A sanitarium for tubercular cases has been established here by one of the medical colleges, this being specially for students, and it is substantially aided through the IRE.
Air-raid provisions (beds, bedding and other essential equipment) have been arranged in Chungking, Chengtu, Yuanling, Ichang, Kweilin and Kweiyang, and thus these cities are prepared for the worst. The International Red Cross is also in close touch with the League of Nation workers in China, and ce-operates in the furnishing' of sera and vaccines, before as well as during any epidemics, such as cholera and smallpox, Cholera is reported as having already appeared and plans are actively afoot to curb the dread disease.
Funds for all this work formerly came from England, plus smaller amounts from the United States. Holland, Norway and Sweden have also aided not a little, some LR.C. personnel having been sent by Sweden. The European war seems to shrink the amount available from that region, which is hardly strange. It follows that both hospital supplies and money must come from other sources or the $1,000,000 potential shortage for 1940 will result in a sation of most of the work the C. is doing.
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