After the distribution of powdered milk, milk foods and vitamins to the   
Orphanages and Children's Hospitals in Rome from January 16th to January 20,   
and the similiar distribution to the Orphanages and Children's Hospitals in   
Naples, from February 2nd to February 6th, a third important distribution of   
vitamins is being carried out in the municipal and private elementary school   
in Rome.
 
     
 
 
A list has been prepared of all the schools and a quantity of vitamin   
tablets is being given to each one sufficient for all the children for a   
first period of one month.
 
     
 
 
Every day the Head of the School will give to each teacher the number of   
tablets necessary for their class and the tablets will be given to the   
children by the teacher to be consumed immediately.
 
     
 
 
Registers are being kept of the children receiving vitamins, together   
with a Doctor's note on the general health conditions of the children and the   
progress made by a picked group of children to be kept under medical   
supervision.
 
     
 
 
It is calculated that 64,840 children will benefit by this distribution.
 
 
 
February 7, 1945