Fourth article on the Public Health among the Jewish refugees in the exposed corpses ad wnelaimed coffs. it for 1939 dears with camps, Eastern District, und the disposal of HE year under review may be described as a period of camp closure and camp amalgamation.
The desire to houses refugees several large concentration ca imps is gradually being realized, and all smaller camps, chiefly wit! in the Settlement, are being closed.
One large camp in the Western District now houses 15,000 refugees, another in the Northern District 5,000, to be further increased by several thousand in the near future, and there are seven camps with populations ranging from 1,000 to 3,000.
During the process of evacuation 30-40 per cent. of the refugees voluntarily disappsor, and the moval from camp to camp has the effect of considerably reducing the humpers. Golf-supporting refugees ow almost exceed the destitute in numbers, and but for the abnormal conditions existing and the impos sibility of finding accommodation, it would not be dificult to close all camps.
Repatriation of refugees by parent organizations is being commenced, but it Is feared that numbers will receive the cash allowance and then crowd into squatter-huts, or existing camps, for swell the ranks of destitutes in alleyways to the detriment of the general population, meet the requirements of all general cases.
An epidemic of scarlet fever in May brought up the question of a separate refugee hospital for com-muniaable diseases. Doctors and nurses were available among the refugees and a well-organized hospital of 150 beds was opened in the Chaotfoong Road Camp promis One ambulance "was stationed in the Eastern District to deal with cases arising.
Clinics where medical advice and aid are given by doctors were established in all camps, and proved very useful, Communicable diseases were mal scarlet fever, dysenteries and
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