London, Mar. 1. The actual German first-line air well in more ways than one. strength is/probably under 5.000 Not only has national machines afd certainly not greater been unaffected by Nazi frightfulness, but national health than 5,000 to"4,000 planes, declares the "Observer" air correspondent, Major Oliver Stewart, in an article, Ernest Brown, Minister of Health, told me today: "In in which he states that his facts have ES eral Britain's health is not only better than this time last year, not been officially confirmed but are ut even better than during the last two winters of peace.. There considered in informed quarters to have been nó cases of be more reliable than many recent epidemics, a negligible number of bomb estimates of the German strength. shock cases, and children have been little affected.
Germany's first-line air force, he believes, consists of: "Influenza deaths in London and big towns totalled 778 in the first Long-range bombers 1500 to 1,600 six weeks of this year compared Dive-bombers 750 1,500 with 1,827 in the same period last Reconnaissance (with bombs) 450 year, and 1,309 in 1939. There have This powerful striking force forms only been two cases. of typhoid or a large proportion of Germany's en-paratyphoid. Last year ther e were tire air feet, the correspondent thinks.
"The only disease of a serious character which has increased is Short Range Bombers cerebrospinal fever, which always rises in wartime. death rate, Aircraft equipped for bombing total about 2600, not including however, has been greatly reduced machines comparable to planes of 4 Was n, Mar, 1.
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