Historical documents reveal similarities between dealing with the corona and the malaria epidemic in the Land of Israel of the 1930s • What does the "purple character" look like during the settlement?

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Historical documents written in the 1920s were discovered on Tuesday in the Archives of the Electric Company. The documents document the story of the malaria epidemic that raged in the country before the establishment of the state, and how the electricity company struggled with the plague among its workers and its centers. Surprisingly, you can see that in malaria epidemic treatment documents about 100 years ago there were many tangible lines for treating the corona epidemic nowadays. 

The document, written on July 22, 1933, presents a review made at the Naharayim Electric Power Plant, followed by rigorous and rigorous guidelines that require immediate care to prevent contact between company employees and marsh mosquitoes that carried the infectious virus and the spread of the disease. 

Some of the guidelines are almost analogous to guidelines we can all identify from our own time. For example, precautions were taken in the numbers found in the company's employees' quarters, along with the use of mosquitoes - equivalent to the use of masks these days.

In addition, in the 1926 document, another similarity can be found, as the IEC has been meticulously monitored with tables and graphs to identify alarming trends among company employees, and to take prompt and prompt treatment to prevent further infection and spread of the disease. 

Dalia Bodinger, director of communications and electricity company spokesman for the company archive: "The electric company archive can find historical records for every scenario, from the 1920s to the present. The" purple character "of 1920, in Nahariim, indicates responsible and professional management who works in regular and consistent fashion. To the regional doctor's instructions for eradicating malaria and maintaining employee health and the environment - an organizational culture that has its roots in the days of Rotenberg and us to this day. "