An epidemic-control program for Palestine to “prevent ravages which could be brought about by war,” was announced here today in a special report issued to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Hadassah.
Mrs. David de Sola Pool, national president, who made the announcement, said cabled reports disclosed that “though the general incidence of infectious diseases in Palestine was lower in 1941 than in 1940, there was an increase in typhoid, diphtheria, jaundice and scabies. Malaria has shown considerable decrease even though many new and previously undrained areas have recently been opened to settlers.”
The program calls for enlarged hospitalization facilities, inoculation of school children against typhoid, and of pre-school children against diphtheria.
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