English Translation

146 - 2 - are constantly overheated (heat to 28 degrees), and the air is particularly dry due to the dry distillation of unusual amounts of dust caused by the use of loose straw for storage. This air is especially irritating to cough,so that cough does not stop all night. If a person now has a flu, they are automatically coughed up on the night of the next one. However, since the flu pathogens are now coughed out by small spigeltröpfcher, who are transmitted from person to person, the extent of the epidemic cannot be foreseen and many children will still find death if no remedy is provided. The mildly ill also have to sleep in these rooms, as there is no room for them in the newly established hospital, because there is only the large number of serious cases. The ordination of this hospital resulted in 800 cases of illness within 3 weeks, a number which can almost be compared with the number of visitors to a Prague clinic. People have to descend from the second and third floors over a cold staircase and cross a piece of factory yard and cool down in this way constantly, so they have to get out of the overheated room into the open air. The diet of the children up to 2 years is probably sufficient, which of the others, who are fed with adults, is completely inadequate. The small children get orange juice, vigantol, partly also liver tran and kegrosan. The health condition of the kids is to be described as bad. The children are mostly malnourished and blood-poor, suffer from appetitelessness and catarrh of the airways. The health status and the resilience of the children were reduced even more by the long journey, great cold and lack of nutrition and of course not improved by the current sluggish living conditions. Now some more figures about the overall feeding. For l268 people daily: l0 kg of fat, 50 kg of meat, on meat days there is no fat. 1400 kg of cattoffel, many of which must be thrown away because of rot. In large boilers these potatoes are cooked, however, because in these boilers there is only underfired and the potatoes mostly