THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, OCTOBER 25, 1940.
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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.
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"-- you there are twice as many peo- ple in every square mile of Eng- land and Wales as there are in Germany. are
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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 day, the German suicide rate was double that of England and Wales: Over the four-year period, 1931-
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 pert, the Nazi regime has brought with it a 300 per cent, increase in these diseases.
The last year for which plete and reliable statistics available is 1937, and the first In 1937, the density of popula- comparable figures are extremely 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- 5, the German rate was 28.5 per All these facts are fully borne tile causes of disease and, on the 100,000 of population, while in out by the ceaseless importation face of it, the health and other England and Wales, during the of workers from those countries vital statistics for England and four-year period 1932-6, the rate which have fallen victims to Ger- Wales ought to make a poor show was 13,5,
man conquest, and the cancella- ing compared with the new and' Moreover, there is a mass of tion, in March of this year, of the healthy Reich of the Nazis. But reliable evidence to prove that, in pre-Nazi legislation which forbade what are the facts?
the last few years, the German the employment of young child-
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 while ensign flown above the Italian flag, as this photo shows.
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 prat- 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 cars, the German figure, accord- ing to Dr. Martin Gumpert-form- erly head of the Berlin City Dis- pensary for Deformity Diseases and now a refugee in America -- is 80,000 higher compared with the year before the Nazis came into power.
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David J. Murphy
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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- ers.
The Nazi decree making the employment of young persons per- missible had as its object the can- scription of youth for work in mines, 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- mess in Germany has reached alarming proportions. Most of the
It would, however, be highly fat content of milk in now sep-
dangerous to Imagine that the As soon as the Nazis were firm- arated and used for war purposes. health factor alone could justify a ly entrenched in Germany,
the British war As a result, rickets and other mal slackening in nation-wide campaign was begun nutrition diseases are widely pre- effort. On the contrary, the work- 'to increase the number of mar- valent-while in England and ers of Britain have a tremendous riages, every kind of inducement Wales they have practically dis- task ahead of them. They are being offered to the country's mar. appeared.
competing not only with the larg- riageable men and women. Yet, In 1937, 72 persons in every er army of German workers, but in 1937, there was no appreciable 100,000 of the population of Eng- with the millions of able-bodied difference between the marriage land and Wales died of tubercul- men and women who are liable to rates of Germany and England osis. The German figure for the instant labour conscription in Ger- and Wales. The German mar- same year was 73. But since then man factories and workshops. riage rate was 18.2 per 1,000 of it has far outstripped the English population, while the figure for rate. According to figures ex- 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 18.6 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
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."
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But they will face it cheerfully, in the knowledge that they will have ample food, the best of medi- cat facilities and, that they are fit- ter for the fight than their op- ponents.
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