Jewish and Arab medical associations today set up (##) inoculation centers in Haifa to protect the port city’s 160,000 population (##) an epidemic of bubonic plague. A leading Jewish medical authority warned that (##) is a danger of the plague spreading to other cities and towns throughout Pal(##)ne as it did in another outbreak 18 months ago.
Fourteen persons have already been stricken and Dr. J.S.M. Pollock, Palestine (##)or medical officer, said that the epidemic has reached “alarming proportions.” (##) people of the city have been told to wear “thick socks and long trousers tied (##)he bottom” to protect them against fleas bearing the disease. A rat extermina(##) campaign has begun and huge quantities of liquid DDT were sprayed on “danger(##).” It is believed that the disease was spread by rats from an ocean going (##).
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