Public Health Sub-Commission
 
 
 
14 January 1945
 
 
 
AC/305/PH
 
 
 
SUBJECT: - Report on the needs of the people of Sicily for clothing 
 
 
 
TO: - Director, Public Health Sub-commission.
 
 
 
1. The Chief Welfare Branch was charged with obtaining, as quickly as   
possible, reliable information relative to the needs of refugees and of   
citizens generally in Sicily,
 
 
 
2. The following persons were interviewed:
 
 
 
     (A) MrxJoseph Silber, A.R.C., who is in charge of the refugees sent into   
Sicily;
 
 
 
     (B) Miss Mary C. Dupee, A.R.C., who was in charge of relief work in six   
of the nine provinces of Sicily and who kindly wrote a very interesting and   
detailed report which is an appendix hereto;
 
 
 
     (C) Mrs. Cora Battiati of the Italian Red Cross now working as an   
American Red Cross associate for E.N.D.S.I.. She is a Sicilian - her family   
lives there now;
 
 
 
     (D) Mr. Peter Banford of the British Friends Ambulance Service,
 
 
 
3. The following reports and sources of information were studied: 
 
 
 
     (A)The reports of R.P.H.O., Sicilia Region
 
 
 
     (B)The reports of otiter A.C. Officials serving in Sicily. 
 
 
 
     (C)Prof. Lauro Chiazzase, Regional Officer Welfare Commissioner Sicily.
 
 
 
     (D)Special communication from R.P.H.O., Sicilia Region.
 
 
 
     (E)Statistics on climate condition in Sicily.
 
 
 
     (F)Newspaper and periodicals to leatin reaction of the Press.
 
 
 
4. The deductions from these reports and sources of information are as
 
follows:
 
     
 
 
(A) Of the approximately 4,200,000 people of Sicily, between  
10 to 15 percent or 450,000 persons will need some clothing predicating   
these estimates on comparisons with the needs in recently devastated areas,   
keeping in mind however that she has had a year in which to recover from a   
lesser devastation that we find in Italy. A misconception arose about Sicily   
being much warmer than Italy; the mean average temperature between Sicily   
and the central part of Italy: for example 10 to latitude north and one   
degree south of Rome is about 50. However the greater proportion of Sicily's   
population is in warmer section.