Spotted fever is again raging in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw and spreading throughout the entire city according to reports published in Berlin newspapers reaching here today.
The reports state that 92 percent of cases of fever throughout the Government General are Jewish, but that Jews “due to years of habit” have developed a certain immunity to this disease. This, the Nazi press says, explains why the death rate from spotted fever is only 10 percent among the Jewish patients, whereas among Germans and Poles it reaches 90 percent.
Stricter measures to check the spread of epidemics from the Warsaw ghetto to the non-Jewish population in the city have been undertaken by the German administration there, the Berlin newspapers state. They disclose that in houses where there is a case of spotted fever, Jewish guards have been stationed at the building to prevent anybody from leaving the premises. The guards are responsible directly to the German administration and not to the Jewish Community Council, since the occupation authorities consider the present wave of epidemic diseases as too serious to permit the Jewish Community to supervise the work of restricting it to the Jewish ghetto only.
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