maltose and the A and D, C and B vitamin tablets to the children's hospitals   
and sanatoria where they could be distributed under medical control.
 
     
 
 
This distribution is already being carried out.  A further distribution   
of multiple-vitamin tablets is now being arranged for all the infant day   
schools in Rome and Naples.
 
     
 
 
When the great quantity of powdered milk and vitamins,soon to be sent   
from American Relief for Italy in America, has arrived, a milk grant for six   
months will be made to the children's institution.  In Rome and Naples and to   
the similiar child welfare institutions in other big Italian cities.
 
     
 
 
Public opinion was very favourably impressed by the quiet efficiency and   
the fairness of the distribution. No charitable institutions with children   
under 10 years of age can say that it was excluded from its fair share.
 
 
 
SURGICAL SETS.
 
     
 
 
The same judicious care was exercised by the Medical Commission in   
assigning the 50 sets of surgical instruments to hospitals which are being   
reconstructed or have lost all their apparatus during the German occupation.  
Each request is examined carefully by all the members of the Commission and   
when they are in agreement the set is assigned. It is hoped that in this way   
these sets will go to the places where they are mostly needed.
 
 
 
FIRST AID KITS.
 
     
 
 
Even though the first aid kits are much simpler articles and not as   
precious as the surgical sets, nevertheless the 1,200 first aid Kits already   
arrived are being assigned individually to scattered villages where they are   
most needed. A first aid kit which in a large community, where there is a   
doctor, might not mean much, in an isolated community can be the means of   
saving a life.
 
 
 
HOSPITALS.
 
     
 
 
American Relief for Italy is erecting three Hospital Units in the battle   
area around Cassino, which has been devastated by war and by the effects of   
the war. They will be near to the malaria zones and should play a big part in   
the anti-malarial campaign of 1945.
 
     
 
 
Each unit will have accomodation for 20 patients and will be equipped as   
perfectly as possible for normal medical and surgical treatment.
 
     
 
 
Attached to each Hospital UxAit there will be a Dispensary for outside   
patients.
 
     
 
 
In the autumn of 1944, when the attention of American Relief for Italy   
was called to the terrible situation of the populations in the malaria zones,   
many of whom were dying for want of medicines in one town it is said that 100   
people out of a population of 2,000 died of malaria - it immediately acquired   
a great quantity