most notably the Archbishop of Đakovo, Anton Akšamović, feared that the outbreak could spread outside the camp. On 30 January 1942, the authorities dispatched a medical commission to Đakovo, which took note of the inhumane living conditions to which the detainees were subjected, and recommended an increase in the amount and quality of medical supplies allocated to the camp. No action was taken to remedy the situation. A small number of prisoners were consequently taken to hospitals. Around the same time, local officials demanded that the camp be relocated further from the town to stem the epidemic, but because the arrest and deportation of Slovenian Jews had recently commenced, the UNS sought to enlarge the camp. These deportations led to an increase in the number and size of transports to the camp by February. A transport of 1,161 women, originating from Stara Gradiška, arrived at Đakovo on 24 February 1942. By this time, the camp housed about 3,000 deportees, around one-quarter of them children under the age of 14. Of the 1,073 women and children who arrived at Đakovo between 26 February and 6 March 1942, 274 – or just over one-quarter – were from Zagreb. The large increase in the number of detainees swiftly worsened the typhoid epidemic. According to several authors, the transfer of women and children from Stara Gradiška to Đakovo was made intentionally to further the spread of typhoid fever among the Đakovo detainees. By March 1942, 631 detainees were hospitalized, an additional 219 were infected, and 131 had died. In response to the epidemic, the authorities and the local Jewish community agreed to place some of the Jewish children from the camp in the care of local Jewish foster families. All Jewish children under the age of ten were to be removed from the camp as part of this arrangement. Jewish community officials administered the camp until 29 March 1942. In mid-April 1942, the Ustaše assumed direct control of the camp with a detachment from Jasenovac led by Jozo Matijević. Some of these new guards set up living quarters in adjacent villages and others lived on the camp premises. The new camp guards ensured that none of the detainees could leave the campgrounds, as had previously been the case, and the detainees were thus no longer able to make contact with the outside world. All subsequent aid deliveries were seized by the Ustaše and detainees