Medical News

Abstract

Britain and the Commonwealth have been asked to take over the care of thousands of children in South Korea torn from their parents by the Korean war. Of the present-day South Korean population of nearly 21,000,000, refugees are known to number 10,000,000. And when the UN forces finally withdrew from North Korea, a further 4,000,000 insisted on moving south, too. Nearly 2,000,000 of all the refugees are children or adolescents under 18 and 100,000 are orphans. So far about 40.000 of these children have been collected into orphanages and homes, but a similar number is still uncared for, living in deserted villages, sheltering in ditches or under any available cover; or in the larger towns, where they merely exist.