'A month ago, the Health Organisation of the League of Nations published a model plan to fassist health authorities in anticipating the problems of spread of disease, which must be Provided for when any large-scale movement fof civilian populations. is under-taken. Public authorities Rave now before them a blue-print Scheme for maintaining assent vices and ensuring public evacuation movements, Equally important, ho fever, is it to ensure that groups of people taken from their homes and moved to new surround-{ings will adjust themselves happily and find useful occupation. 'This, the social' aspect of Problems raised by the movement of civilian Populations, is a matter of concern to the Lea~ gue's Advisory Committee on Social Questions. The Health Organisation was concerned with [precautions against communicable diseases, the provision of healthy surroundings in the receiving area (sanitation and housing), the pro-Vision of temporary machinery for giving em-Jergency medical care while people were being conveyed from one district to another, and the ganisation of adequate medical and nursing population in the area of reception. The Social Organisation of the League will be concerned with the well-being of families which have been in the care of social authorities and the. esttablishment of ce-ordination between these and the social authorities In the area of reception, in order to ensure the continuance of his care in the new home. Not merely the problem of food supply, wholesome milk for children und. a balanced nutrition "for the rest of the population (a concern also of the health fand the problem of maintaining this by finding new authorities), but/also the income of the family work in new surroundings will be discussed by the Social Committee, The latter will further five its attention to the kind of education which sheld be conduced among the people to be moved, in order to prepare them for their new life, Social authorities should help them choose what clothing, household equipment and tools may be taken with them, and what should be left, Even more important wilt be the task of these authorities to explain the whole project fin such a way as to remove dread of leaving their homes, and Inspire some confidence in the future. Education will be equally important the area of reception, in order to prepare pcople to receive the newcomers with sympathy and help and, by giving both groups some senso of the sacrifice required of each, to create bonds of understanding among new neighbours. The Advisory Committee on Social Questions has long dealt with certain problems whose seriousness is likely to be aggravated by any fiarge shift of population. The employment of leisure time inva creative manner, the Use of camps and other special devices to enlarge the experience and increase the social usefulness of young people, problems. of the apprentice system in agricultural and industrial undertakings, the prostitution of girls and young women, the treatment of prisoners; all these, which have been matters of concern to the Committee for years, will now be reviewed with special reference to new hazards created by the transfer of civilian populations,
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