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Who Is Fitter For The Fight?
Of all the propaganda boasts and there are many people who that have been blared out from believe him. German sources in the last few years, none has been more insis- tent than the claim that Nazism brought new health and rejuvena tion to the German people..
While the decadent British are drifting to moral and physical de- cay, Germany has been restored to virility and power. At least, . that's what Dr. Goebbels says
Propaganda' boasts, however, are one thing, and facts are an other. The figures and statistics don't tell the Goebbels story. In- deed, the picture they paint is just the opposite.
com-
The last year for which plete and reliable statistics are available is 1987,
and the first
comparable figures are extremely
BRITISH FLAG FLIES ABOVE ITALIAN ON CAPTURED SUBMARINE, Captured in the Gulf of Aden by the British trawler Moonstone, the Italian submarine Galileo Galilei was brought into harbour with the white ensign flown above the Italian flag, as this photo shows.
Health Standards Of Britain And Germany Examined
crease in diseases where dirt is a prime factor, especially when. there is the added danger from bad or tainted food.
interesting. German propagand- and Wales, 9 per cent, against 4 brought about a dangerous in- ists have excelled themselves in per cent. their claims for "living space"- yet there are twice as many peo- ple in every square mile of Eng- land and Wales as there are in Germany.
In 1987, the density of popula- tion figure for Germany was 363 persons per sq. mile-but 703 per sq. mile in England and Wales.
This comparison is extremely important in its bearing on nat- ional health, for over-crowding of population is one of the most fer- tile causes of discase and, on the
fece of it, the health and other vital statistics for England and Wales ought to make a poor show- ing compared with the new and healthy Reich of the Nazis. But what are the fucts?
The Death Rate Rises
Take the death rate first. The death rate in England and Wales during 1937 was 12.4 per 1,000 of population, while in Germany, with only half the density of population, the figure was prac- tically the same-11.7 per 1,000 of population.
And while the death rate for England and Wales has been fall- ing steadily over a long period of yrars, the German figure, accord- ing to Dr. Martin Gumpert-form- erly, head of the Berlin City Dis- pensary for Deformity Discases and now a refugee in America is 80,000 higher compared. with the year before the Nazis came into power.
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Suicides Soaring
An even grimmer commentary on living conditions in the two countries is provided by the sui- when the strain on Germans was cide statistics. Even by 1935, not nearly as severe as it is to- double that of England and Wales, day, the German suicide rate was
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5, the German.rate was 28.5 per Over the four-year period, 1931- 100,000 of population, while four-year period 1932-8, the rate England and Wales, during the
was 13.5.
In England and Wales, during 1937, there was not one death from either smallpox or cholera, while million of population. But in the typhoid death rate was 5 per Germany, according to Dr. Gum- with it a 300 per cent, increase in pert, the Nazi regime has brought
these diseases.
All these facts are fully borne
which have fallen victims to Ger- out by the ceaseless importation of workers from those countries
man conquest, and the cancella- Moreover, there is a mass of tion, in March of this year, of the reliable evidence to prove that, in pro-Nazi legislation which forbade the last few years, the German the employment of young child-
-By-
David J. Murphy
tel.
Replacing Broken Workers
More than 500,000 Poles and Czechs have been conscripted for forced labour in Germany - to make good the loss of working hours caused by the breakdown in health of so many German work- crs.
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The Nazi decrec.. making employment of young persons per.... missible had as its object the con- scription of youth for work in nincs, as a result of heavy falls in, output due to ill-health among miners
suicide rate has soared until, ac- cording to Dr. Gumpert, there are almost as many suicides in Ger- many to-day as there are in the whole of the remainder of Europe. Thanks to Goering's "Guns or Butter" campaign, infantile sick- hess in Germany, has reached alarming proportions. Most of the fal content of milk in now sep- ated and used for war purposes. As a result, rickets and other mal- slackening nutrition diseases. are widely pre- valent-while in England and Wales they have practically dis-
As soon as the Nazis were Arm- ly entrenched Germany, а nation-wide campaign was begun to increase the number of mar- riages, every kind of inducement being offered to the country's mar. appeared. riageable men and women.
every
In 1937, 72 persons in Yet,
in 1937, there was no appreciable 100,000 of the population of Eng difference between the marriage land and Wales died of tubercul- rates of Germany and England osis. The German figure for the and Wales. The German mar- same year was 73. But since then riage rate was 18.2 per 1,000 of it has far outstripped the English population, while the figure for rate. According to figures cx- England and Wales was 17.4.
tracted from official Nazi publica- The Nazis certainly succeeded tions, there are now more than in obtaining a-higher birth rate 1,500,000 cases of tuberculosis in 18.8 per 1,000 of population com- Germany. pared with 14.9 for England and Wales. But it is significant that the German total of illegitimate births should be more than twice. the comparable figure for England to
Dirt And Disease Shortage of soap and other aids personal cleanliness have
It would, however, be highly dangerous to imagine that the health factor alone could justify a the British war
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effort. On the contrary, the work ers of Britain have a tremendous them. They are task ahead of competing not only with the larg- er army of German workers, but with the millions of able-bodied men and women who are liable to instant labour conscription in Ger- man factories and workshops.
The task of equalling and out- stripping German war production is probably the grimmest that the free workers of Britain have,
ever had to face.
But they will face it cheerfully. in the knowledge that they will have ample food, the best of medi- cal facilities and, that they are fit- ter for the fight than their op- Ronents.
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