Off To Help Arab Refugees... Three British Red Cross workers leaving London to-day on one of the world's toughest assignments in nursing, they are going to Transjorden to staff dispensaries for refugees who have no shelter of any kind They will work as a team in the Irbid and Madaba districts and they will live in tents. They will look after the 800,000 Arab refugees crowded beyond the Israeli border. April 21, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).