1951-03-10 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1951..

UNDERNOURISHED, lli-clothed Indian children in Gouripur, East Pakistan, sit cross-legged, patiently wait for milk distributed by a United Nations team. Youngster, (inast) draining his bowl is obviously enjoying his first taste of the life-giving fluid.

CHILD CARE COMES TO INDIA

AN INDIAN mother receives instruction from Scandinavian nurse Jam Monnik in the proper method of bathing her baby. In India, there is ratio of one nurse to every 49,000 inhabitants.

U.N. Brings to India New Hope of Reduced Infant Mortality

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DEYOND the flaming borders of Korea, Danother life or death struggle > taking place in Asia, this pletely removed from military political considerations. On one side is the United Nations. Tho enemy is..

and disease. Victory will ignorance mean good health and longer life for millions of persons,

At the request of India and Pakistan, the UN International Children's Emerg ency. Find, aided by the World Health Organisation, has launched lakge-scale maternal and child health training programmes, The aim is to cut down the shocking rate of child mortality. Working in close co-operation with the UN agencies, both India and Pakistan have matched all outlays of money and personnel made by the UNICEF,

In India, approximately 80 percent of the births in the provinces are at- tended by untrained persons, in the face -of-an-established fact that the lack of.....

pre-natal care is the chief cause of in- fant mortality.

Life expectancy in India is only 20,7 years for both males and females. ID Pakistan, one-half of the children die before the age of 10. Of this group, 50 percent succumb to a variety of. diseases by the time they are one year old.

Many of the ragged, hungry and dis- ease-ridden women and children who find their way into the UNICEF centrem receive their first contact with modern methods of hygiene and medicine. Ia addition to the disease-preventative aspects of its programme, the UNICEF is attempting to aid thousands of women and children made homeless and desti- tute by floods.

ALTHOUGH this youngster crias loudly, now, she will have less cause for tears later as a result of this inocu- stig. The little girl is réceiving an injection of tuberculosis serum that will protect her for three to five years.

A GROUP of mothers, watch the demonstration on the care and feeding of an infant. Because of the limited UM personnel avaliable to four the pro- veloces, "the drama liigutan' on the women they help that the knowledge gained must be bravid

· micoeeding "gustations,

KEEPING bir Baby\clean if the first lesson taught a mother by the UNICE virtually unknown in the country, where, there is only one doctor to