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Birth & Death. Saipan Japs had one of the highest birth rates on earth: about 300 children were born annually to each 1,000 women aged 15 to 45. Now ten to 15 babies are born each day at Camp Susupe. Authorities have attempted to record births as they occurred. Friendly Chamorros usually comply; Japs...
...thought of baby bottles and nipples for them. We used rubber gloves, medicine droppers -anything to get milk into them. They rushed us out some baby bottles from the States and we are in pretty good shape now." Diapers were included in the Navy's last shipment to Saipan...
...camp's orphan asylum has only 60 babies, who are attended by three Japanese nurses. The number of civilians killed by bombing and shelling was surprisingly low on Saipan, and many of the thousands of adult civilians who committed suicide at the battle's end killed their children also...
Besides working in the fields, Saipan's civilians are beginning to return to their old trades: fishing, handicraft, light industry. Common laborers are paid 35? daily, skilled workers 50?. Some women have started making two-for-a-nickel cigars. A curio business is being started to fashion souvenirs for the Americans...
Significance. Because Saipan's civilians are mostly ignorant peasants from the comparatively remote Ryukyu Islands, and presumably less fanatical than civilians who will be found in Japan proper, Saipan furnishes no perfect example for the future. But Pacific forces have learned a lot about the many problems of occupying enemy territory. And the Orient can learn there that Americans are at their considerate best once victory...