Stamford Advocate · Stamford, Connecticut · 5 May 1948
CP-1948-104
Typhoid Epidemic Is Feared In Arab-Packed City Of Acre
Associated Press, Acre, Palestine
Transcribed from the clipping
“Acre, Palestine, May 5. (AP)—Authorities expressed fear today of a typhoid epidemic. Eighty-two cases—46 of them British—already have been reported in this crowded city. A city official said the mayor and head of the Acre Health Department are in Lebanon appealing for serum to innoculate Acre’s 15,000 inhabitants.
An Arab spokesman in Haifa said the Lebanese government had promised to send typhoid serum and a team of about 10 doctors and nurses to fight the disease. Forty of the British victims are soldiers from one company of the Middlesex regiment.
The other six are constables… Ahmed Abdu, vice mayor of Acre, said that in addition to 36 known cases among the city’s civilians, another 50 persons are under observation. He complained there was no place in the hospital for typhoid victims. ‘We already have almost 200 wounded Arab soldiers under treatment,’ he said. Both Abdu and municipal engineer B.
S. Behouth blamed the Acre water supply for the disease. They said British army tests showed the presence of typhoid germs in the water. Acre is located across the bay, eight miles from Haifa. After Jewish forces occupied Haifa two weeks ago, thousands of Arabs fled to Acre.”
Context added by this archive
Two weeks after Haifa, the town they were taken to is out of hospital beds and the water has typhoid in it. The vice mayor and the municipal engineer are named, and the last sentence says occupied and fled in the same breath. The subheading is “100 British Isolated.” “innoculate” is the paper’s.
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"Typhoid Epidemic Is Feared In Arab-Packed City Of Acre," Stamford Advocate, 5 May 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-104. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-104
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