SOCIOLOGICAL - PUBLIC HEALTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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OOUNTRY Poland
SUBdEC~I Sociological -Public health
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?UBLISHfD Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED ^r_8 Jul T945
O:ANGUAGE Polish
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CONTAGIOUS DI?..E!'.SES BHOB D?CILNE -- Rzeczpoepolita, 1Po 205, 28 Jul 49
Special3ate agree that the health of Warsaw residents Se reasonably
Extermination of Elise and mosquitoes, the greatest carriers of com-
municable disease, contlnuee. Morse than 1,000 buildings have been sprayed,
includ'_ng slaughter houeerl, dairies, and hospitals
Medical care has also improved Recurrent malaria cases are about 5
percent of the total number, While last year the figure fluctuated betreen
I.O and 50 percent of the total cases.
The total number of malaria caaA~ r;,-.K Rieo in ilareaw in 1948, Lhe
heaviest year, was 1,873. as of the end of Juna 1948, there were 757 cR.see,
while this year at the end of June only 287 caeee wore recorded.
Other contagious dieeseee also show a comparable decline. Dysentery ie
practically nonezietent, sad danger of typhoid fever ie no longer fe?.t.
Strange and unexplained is the existence of typhus, although slight
(cne or 2 caeee in a period of weeks). The co see are light and on7.y detected
at later stages of the disease. Research in the matter ie in progress. No
deaths have been reported.
However, there are many caeee of paratyphoid. Of the three varieties,
paratyphoid '$," contracted frcm ta1:At~d food ie moat frequent. Although
disagreeable, it is not dangerous.
Program "W," organized to combat venereal dleeaee, Se developing satie-
faY?.torily. The situation is entirely under contxol due to the receipt of
PPM a new kind of penicillin.
Syphilitic children are being cured more quickly. However, despite
good results, they remain under strict medical care.
STATE
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specialists and. i'solation'war~~.
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March t9~~8, 3,4G0 ceses ~; s~bilis and 2000 cases of gon~rhea onus baea
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