Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — REPORT NEW HUNGER DISEASE [ARTICLE]

REPORT NEW HUNGER DISEASE

Workers Find Bodies of Children to Have Excess of Water From Starvation. Prague.—A new hunger disease is reported among the children of some of the remote districts of Czecho-Slo-vakia.’- * It is a form of “hunger odema*,” and appears to be due primarily to the presence, of too much water in the body, owing to starvation. Great care must be taken that the food gets to the children themselves and not to their parents. It seems almost unbelievable, but the parents are frequently accused of being the worst enemies of their own children in respect to food. “Most of the children are suffering from this strange ‘hunger-odema’ and there is also a tremendous increase in tuberculosis.”