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.