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APPENDIX B

Medical Lend-Lease Statistics

Table 1.-Militarylend-lease (medical shipments), 11 March 1941-3 September 1945

Country

19411

19421

1943

1944

1945

Total

Belgian Congo

---

---

---

$115,000

$51,000

$166,000

Bolivia

---

---

$115

---

---

115

Brazil

---

---

180,000

248,000

143,000

571,000

Canada

---

$12,000

30,000

84,000

23,000

149,000

Chile

---

---

---

54,000

7,000

61,000

China

$220,000

3,107,000

1,706,000

3,920,000

2,468,000

11,421,000

Columbia

---

---

---

152,000

109,000

261,000

Costa Rica

---

---

---

---

200

200

Cuba

---

---

200

44,500

300

45,000

Dominican Republic

---

---

---

15,500

2,500

18,000

Ecuador

---

1,000

110,000

287,000

40,000

438,000

French Africa

---

---

2,769,000

1,950,000

449,000

5,168,000

Greece

---

---

---

1,400

---

1,400

Haiti

---

250

1,000

48,750

---

50,000

Honduras

---

---

---

160

---

160

Iran

---

---

8,000

139,000

3,000

150,000

Mexico

---

---

---

59,000

91,000

150,000

Netherlands

---

---

49,000

20,000

13,000

82,000

Nicaragua

---

---

---

15,000

4,000

19,000

Norway

---

---

23,000

19,000

76,000

118,000

Peru

---

4,000

74,000

203,000

28,000

309,000

United Kingdom and dominions

56,000

4,007,000

16,286,000

16,396,000

12,821,000

49,566,000

Uruguay

---

---

---

300

350

650

U.S.S.R.

---

4,624,000

9,284,000

13,764,000

10,401,000

38,073,000

Venezuela

---

---

---

2,000

10,000

12,000

Yugoslavia

---

---

---

120,000

14,000

134,000

Total

$276,000

$11,755,250

$30,520,315

$37,657,610

$26,754,350

$106,963,525


1There was no distinction between military andcivilian lend-lease shipments before 1943. These columns, therefore, includeindeterminate quantities of civilian medical supplies.

Table 2.-Civilian lend-lease (medical)shipments, 1 January 1943-3 September 1945

Country

1943

1944

1945

Total

Belgian Congo

---

$87,000

---

$87,000

Ethiopia

---

34,000

---

34,000

French Africa

$61,000

1,210,000

$1,940,000

3,211,000

Iran

---

1,250

---

1,250

Iraq

---

6,000

---

6,000

Saudi Arabia

---

6,000

3,000

9,000

Syria

---

7,000

370

7,370

Turkey

1,000

180,000

---

181,000

United Kingdom and dominions

127,000

5,057,000

2,407,000

7,591,000

Miscellaneous

7,000

1,292,000

---

1,299,000

Total

$196,000

$7,880,250

$4,350,370

$12,426,620


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Table 3.-Foreign shipments of medicalsupplies other than lend-lease, 1942-45

Agency

1942

1943

1944

1945

Russian War Relief Society

$1,770,448

$3,241,253

$1,648,463

$834,264

Procurement Division, U.S. Treasury

---

---

22,190

20,435,709

American Red Cross:

 

 

 

 

    

To U.S.S.R.

3,553,330

431,348

45,189

---

    

To Greece

---

36,534

3,955

136

    

To Ireland

25,961

136,428

69,669

---

Total

$5,349,739

$3,845,563

$1,789,466

$21,270,109


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