Bulletin. No. 8

              NATIONAL JOINT COMMITTEE FOR SPANISH RELIEF
Chairman: THE DUCHESS OF ATHOLL, M.P. 
Vice-Chairmen: THE EARL OF LISTOWEL, MISS ELEANOR RATHBONE, M.P. 
Hon. Secretaries: MR. D.R. GRENFELL, M.P., CAPT. J.R.J. MACNAMARA, M.P., MR. WILFRID ROBERTS, M.P., 
53 Marsham Street, S.W.1.   Telephone: Victoria 2168. 
Organising Secretary: MRS. MARY. M. MILLER.
Co-operating Societies: The Service Council of The Society of Friends, The Save the Children Fund, The Spanish Medical Aid Committee, The Scottish Ambulance Unit. The Spanish Women's Committee for Help to Spain, The Spanish Youth Foodship Committee, The Christian Foodship Committee, The Southern Spanish Relief Committee.
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We are glad to announce that the Christian Food-ship Committee are going to co-operate with the National Joint Committee.
THE BASQUE CHILDREN
The Camp at North Stoneham, near Southampton, has now been greatly reduced in number and we hope that the 670 children who remain will shortly all be placed in the Homes to which they have been allocated.
The health and spirits of the children is very satisfactory. We may congratulate ourselves on the fact that an epidemic of typhoid which might have resulted from the six cases which came from Bilbao has not in fact taken place. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to the camp medical staff who prevented the spread of infection in conditions which seemed favourable for it. The children were all inoculated twice, the anti-typhoid vaccine was promptly secured with the help of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee. We regret, however, to have to announce the death of one child, Dolores Ugarte, from galloping consumption. She had been treated in University College Hospital and no expense had been spared to save her life.
At a meeting of the Basque Children's Committee held on July 7th, the following statement was unanimously agreed:
"The Committee has already made it clear that it is acting as the temporary guardian of the refugee children on behalf of their parents, and that the children will be reunited with them at as early a date as may prove possible.
In the meantime, the general position is being carefully watched.   In view, however, of the unsettled conditions still existing in Spain and generally, the Committee feel that the time has not yet arrived when detailed plans for the children's repatriation can be contemplated. The Committee would remind those interested in this country that the children were offered a haven here from war conditions. Until their parents are in a position to take them back under conditions of safety, the Committee feels it their duty to continue to offer them refuge. They appeal to the generosity of the British public to help them with this responsibility."
Two requests from parents of children in Spain have been received by the Committee. One child, Caridad Orariaga, has been repatriated to Vigo to her father at his expense. The other request is being investigated. A few requests have been received from relatives of children in France which are also being considered.
HOMES FOR THE CHILDREN
The following is a complete list of Homes where the children have been sent and their numbers :
Roman Catholic Homes and Institutions have taken about 1,200, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight (114), Southall (100), Southampton (34), Honiton, Devon (46), Honor Oak, London (60), Bury, Lancs. (21), Manchester (65), Liverpool (170), Preston (50), Lancaster (10), Wigton (35), Darlington, Newcastle, Hammersmith.
Four hundred children are under the care of the Salvation Army, 350 at Clapton and Brixton, and 50 in Hadleigh Farm Colony, Suffolk.
Centres where local Committees are makinq themselves responsible for groups are Leicester (50), Birkenhead (60), Wakefield (65), Barnet (40), Swansea (80), Walsall (50), Tunbridge Wells (60), Worthing (60), Woolwich — Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Home (18), Ipswich (50), Colchester — Peace Pledge Union Home (50), Brampton, Cumberland (100), Blackboys, Sussex (20), Hurstmonceux (12), Street — Independent Labour Party Home (40), Cambridge (30), Witney (40), Birmingham — Society of Friends Home (40), Manchester (40), Derby (50), Newbury (100), Barnes (40),