Typhoid fever and malaria epidemics have ravaged the Jewish internees confined by the British on the island of Mauritius, it was disclosed today in the Daily Mail.
The epidemics took hold and threatened to spread all over the island but Lady Clifford, American-born wife of the Governor of Mauritius, intervened and organized a group of volunteer nurses to cope with the situation. For two months the Governor’s wife and her volunteers worked on day and night shifts until both epidemics has been stamped out. The Mauritius prisoners are now reported as being restored to normal health, the Daily Mail states.
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