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. 2007 Feb;97(2):218.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.103986. Epub 2006 Dec 28.

The polio epidemic in Israel in the 1950s

Nava Blum  1 , Elizabeth Fee
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The polio epidemic in Israel in the 1950s

Nava Blum et al. Am J Public Health. 2007 Feb.
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Israeli children undergoing rehabilitation in “Feinston House” of the Sick Fund in Ramot Hashavim (a cooperative Israeli settlement) in the 1950s. Source. Tirtza Heiman, daughter of Ludwig Ginsburg, the director of “Feinston House” in Ramot Hashavim, Israel.
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References

    1. Plan of Operations for the Rehabilitation of Handicapped Children, Israel. Geneva: WHO/UNICEF; 1951:1–5. Located at: State Archive, Jerusalem, Israel. File: 57/42891/8.
    1. The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948. Tel Aviv: Jewish People’s Council; 1948.
    1. Grushka T. Health Services in Israel. Jerusalem: Israeli Ministry of Health; 1959.
    1. Blum N. The Development of Medical Rehabilitation in the End of the Mandate, and in the First Decade of the State of Israel, 1940–1956 [PhD thesis]. Haifa: Haifa University; 2003:1–186.
    1. The opening of physical therapy school in Israel. Davar [newspaper]. December 8, 1953; local news:2.

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