A fellowship in sanitary engineering has been granted by the Rockefeller Foundation to a native of Palestine who, after a period of special study in the United States, returned during the past year to the post of engineer in the malaria survey section of the Palestinian Department of Health, according to the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation.
It is expected that he will assume some of the functions of the Foundation’s engineer, who withdrew from Palestine at the end of the year. From 1918 to 1928 there has been a marked downward trend of malaria in Palestine, as shown by a decrease in the malaria deaths and the percentage of palpable spleens. In some places-for example, in Jerusalem-the decrease can be justifiably attributed to anti-larval measures; in the country as a whole, however, there are not sufficient data available to deduce with certainty what part of the malaria reduction has been accomplished by such efforts.
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