In Rome alone 64,840 school children receive daily vitamin tablets. Each day the head of the school issues the tablets to be consumed by the children and Doctors' records are kept on the health conditions of the children and their progress. With the imminent arrival of additional supplies (February shipments alone estimated at three million pounds) thousands of other war victims of the more northerly provinces of liberated Italy will be assisted. The program of milk and medicinal aid will be maintained and the assistances to children will be expanded. 50 new American trucks, a gift of the American people through American Relief for Italy, will expodite further distribution. |