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On 5 April 1921, the mayor of Cherchell wrote to his Prefect to complain that migrants from the interior posed a serious threat to the health of his coastal town. ‘Long queues of people from Orléanville and Ténès’ had tried to enter Cherchell, and when they had been expelled, they had simply tried to come into the town through another gate’.1 They ‘brought with them the threat of typhus … to a settlement which had until then been spared, and the only means we had of defending ourselves against this invasion was to guard all the gates into the town ’.2
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Gallois, W. (2008). Introduction. In: The Administration of Sickness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582606_1
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