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Accountability Officer, gave the camp the highest rating for the condition of its warehouses and effectiveness of supply control and accountability, and in September, Major Shelly, a Warehouse Inspector from CHQ who inspected most of the camps in this area with special emphasis on supply accountability, informed the local Field Supervisor that he had never seen anything as perfect as Junkers in all his warehousing experience. He spent several hours trying to find a mistake in the records, and finally had to content himself with the rather tame suggestion that issue vouchers be cross referenced.
Supply - Food
The requisitioning and drawing of food rations from the G 5 warehouse has been largely routine and theoretically in accordance with caloric standards as prescribed by the current army directive on DP rations, but the calory computations of the team medical officer for the early part of 1946 indicated a certain degree of fluctuation in the food issues, largely because of shortages of certain items such as fats for varying periods. The Red Cross parcels, which had given variety to the camp dient, were nearly exhausted in July and such parcels as remained were held for use on repatriation trains. Monthly head counts were instituted in October along with the compulsory use of food cards in all camps, and when the food scales and requisitioning procedures established by the Army Order of October 11th. went into effect on November 1st. and food surpluses had to be returned, camp diet became very monotonous. The hospital had gradually built up a food surplus based chiefly on rations drawn for patients too ill to eat, and from this surplus it had been able to supplement the normal diet where necessary from a medical standpoint, but this surplus had to be returned also.
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