From the dismal villages of Egypt last week came statistics that tell more about what is ailing the Land of the Nile than a 9-ft. shelf of political essays.
After 4½ years of studying five delta villages typical of those in which the majority of Egypt's 20 million live, the Rockefeller Foundation came to a sad conclusion: the Egyptian village is perhaps the most insanitary living place in the civilized world.
Worse than Asia. For measuring purposes, the foundation used a scale under which a community with proper sanitary facilities and good health conditions gets a hypothetical 106.5 points. The Egyptian...
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