To the Editor of the "Norni-Cunka Dany News"
Sim—Dr. Reiss in his excellent letter very ably put before you the urgent need of stificient hospitalization for Jewish Refugees and pointed at the grave danger of the spread of tuberculosis and." psychoneurosis among these unfortunate people.
T hope his words will be heard by those concerned.
"There is to add only. that the list of diseases iz not limited to tuber culosis and psychoneurosis.
'The majority of the Middle-European Jews consists of a big town population, whose general resistance Egainst disease never has been 100 Beat. Now, they have been, "yer-Gilessly, yet' without any guib, per-Secured, humiliated, deprived of the Darest means of livelihood. 'They fled halt way around the globe to be crowded in unhealthy. camps without 'Sulclent sanitation. 'They' live now in a world entirely strange to them, undernourished and without any hope for the future.
Under these circumstances every kind of disease means to them much mere than to the average foreign population living in the Settlement the Frenchtown under settled conditions.
Even in those cases of otitis media for sinuisitis, the pains of which can easily be gauged by the physician, the refugee generally suffers far be: yond what is correspondent to the Symptoms.
Due to the same circumstances the refugees also are ripe for any epidemic, that occurs and are bound {o succumb to diseases, from which they might be saved by proper hospitatization, The City-fathers, permitting the influx of any unlimited number of Refugees into Shanghai to live under their jurisdiction, assume, in my opinion automatically, the responsibility to take the necessary steps to Prevent at least the worst for them providing sufficient hospital accommodation.
Shanghai, June 23.
Da. E. Lewrx.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.