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ticularly [[particularly]] malignant form is prevalent in many regions of China and the movement of refugees and troops scatters this disease far and wide over the land. The Burma Road, called China's life line, goes through malaria infested areas. The thousandsof [[thousands of]] workers necessary to keep the road free in the face of landslides and aerial bombings must be protected against malaria. All this means tons of quinine every year. 

     * Only a fraction of the wounded can at present be adequately treated. It takes days to transport them to the base hospitals because of the lack of transportation facilities. I've seen wounded work with there decasing. In the hospitals, makeshift equipments are used - from operating tables made of bamboo to surgical instruments made out of old scrap iron. You can get a fairly good idea of the need when I tell you that of the five hundred base hospitals only two hundred of them have sterilizers and these are aluminum pressur [[pressure]] cookers sent to them by [[strikethrough]] the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, [[/strikethrough]] one of the participating agencies of the United China Relief on whose behalf I am speaking to you today.

     And lastly, the thousands of maimed and crippled who have survived must be helped not to be a burden on society. They have to be fitted with artificial limbs before they can even learn a new trade.
 
     Just what is being done to meet these urgent needs? You have heard me refer to the [[strikethrough]] American Bureau for Medical Aid to China [[/strikethrough]] U.C.R. This organization through its three years of existence symbolized the growing understanding and sympathy of Americans for China. [[strikethrough]] It has raised three quarters of a million dollars which it has translated into effective use. [[/strikethrough]] 2 million
 
    For the wounded [[strikethrough]] we have [[/strikethrough]] THE AMERICAN BUREAU HAS sent antiseptics, curative and preventive sera of various types, anaesthetics and surgical instruments to make operations possible, opiates to ease the pain and over 150 truck-ambulances for transportation. I have already referred to the aluminum pressure cookers. [[strikethrough]] We [[/strikethrough]] THEY have recently set up six air raid emergency stations in Chungking, the heart-city of China's defense.