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    "title": "Hints for American Relief Workers",
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    "ocrText": "much according to the number of rooms and the locality,\nbut the rent always has to be paid in advance by the term\nFREE CONSULTATION at the nearest public hospital or\nof three months; and in the end this means a very great\ndispensary.\nsaving over the abominable, dirty and ill-furnished\n'hôtel\" rooms.\nFREE MEDICINES for refugees, but not patent medicines,\ntonics, etc.\nIn the spring of 1917 the French Government passed\na\nlaw providing an Indemnité de Loyer.' This is a\nCRÉCHE\ngrant of Frs.5 per person per month to refugee families,\nAll over Paris there are \"crèches\" where a mother\npaid upon presentation of the receipted bill for the rent\ncan place her baby, up to three years of age, for the day,\nof the preceding month. This has done a great deal\nso that she may go out to work. Children over three\ntowards improving the housing situation and lessening\nyears of age can go to school; and now with the \"can-\nthe high cost of living for the refugees. It has on the\ntines\" it is possible for them to stay all day. The more\none hand reassured the landlords that they will be paid,\ncareful mothers, and those with many children-which\nmaking them much more willing to rent to refugees than\nmeans a great deal of washing and mending-do not take\nformerly ; while it has lowered the cost of living by\nadvantage of this.\nreleasing a corresponding sum which can be spent\non food.\nCOMITÉS\nEach Departement\" which has been invaded or from\nPUBLIC RELIEF IN PARIS\nwhich there are refugees, has a semi-official Comité.\nParis is divided into 20 Arrondissements-somewha\nThese Committees were appointed from the members of\nlike American \"wards\"-each of which is administered\nthe Chamber of Deputies and other prominent men of\nin certain details by a Maire.\nthe localities. They vary in methods and efficiency.\nThe Departement de Bienfaisance' has its head-\nFor instance :-\nquarters for each Arrondissement in the Mairie. The\nCOMITÉ DU NORD\nMairies vary a little in the things they do for their poor\nThis committee gives money to soldiers from the\npeople, but the following things are done in all :-\n66 Département\" here on permission sends a great many\nFOR PARISIANS AND REFUGEES (As a rule\npackages to prisoners, and to men on the front: gives\na\nParis organizations make no distinction between Refugees\n\"bon of Frs. 5 for each child, and Frs. IO for every\nand other sufferers.)\nadult, every four months. These bons can be taken to\nFREE COAL.--50 kilos at least four times a year, i.e.,\nsome of the big stores, such as La Samaritaine,\" and\nin the four winter months.\nexchanged for clothing.\nFREE POTATOES.- kilos per person per month.\nCOMITÉ DE LA MARNE\nFREE MEALS for children at the public schools, called\nThe committee gives clothing from its \"Vestiaire\"\n\"cantines.\" Paris children may have to pay a\nalso money in small amounts, usually not over Frs. 15\nsou or two.\nand generally Frs. 5 at a time.\nFREE MEALS for pregnant women- Cantine mater-\nCOMITÉ FRANCO-BELGE\nnelle.\"\nThis committee stands in the same relation to the\nFREE MATERNITY CARE and a meagre layette provided.\nBelgian refugees as the \"Comités Départementaux\" to\nA pregnant woman receives for 28 days before the\nthe French refugees from the \"Pays envahis.' It is a\nexpected birth, and for 28 days thereafter, Frs. .50\nvery large organization. At one of its offices its business\nper day ; also, if she nurses her child, for 28 days\nis to establish the fact that people are bona fide refugees\nafter the birth, 5o centimes a day in addition.\nfrom Belgium. It then gives the family an elaborate\nMany Mairies also provide free milk for several\nlittle book which looks like an English passport. This\nweeks after birth. At the time of birth there is a\nshould always be asked for, as it will have stamped on it\ngrant varying from 6o to 100 francs.\nan account of aid received. The committee gives clothing\nFREE DOCTORS who visit in the home if the people are\nfrom its Vestiaire, free meal tickets, free lodging tickets\nsick in bed; otherwise:\n(mostly for single men) and formerly gave money to pay\nrent. It continues to pay a good deal of rent, but does\nnot take on new families now."
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