Four thousand of the Jewish settlers in the Emek colonies have been innoculated against typhoid by the Palestine government’s sanitary engineer and the director of the malaria research unit in cooperation with the health department of the Jewish Agency. Last week thirty cases of typhoid were reported in the Emek with two fatalities.
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