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Ose Planning to Extend Medical, Social Aid to Jews in North African Communitiens

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The OSE, Jewish health society, is planning to extand large-scale medical and social assistance to the Jews of Morocco and other North African countries, the organization announced here today.

Mrs. Valentine Cremer and Maurice Brener, members of the OSE Union’s executive board, who recently returned from an inspection tour of Jewish communities in North Africa, reported that the physical conditions under which Jews live in the Mellah (ghetto) are indescribably miserable. They disclosed that 60 percent of all children are affected by scabiesand that rickets and tuberculosis are extremely prevalent. The OSE has already shipped quantities of drugs and vitamins to Casablance.

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