Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 55

— 55 — The amount of LP.262 was retained as reserve by the Vaad Leumi. The following figures show welfare work on behalf of German immigrants (who have been in the country not more than one year), which is conducted in every place by the Social Service Bureau, the Local and Colony Councils, except Tel Aviv, where there is a special Bureau set up by the Vaad Leumi for this purpose : Visits of Needy German Immigrants in Social Service Bureaux during the period from October, 1936, to April, 1937. Locality New Cases Recurrent Visits Total Tel Aviv, Bureau for German Immigrants — 316 2,398 2,714 Jerusalem, Community Council — — 17 39 56 Haifa, Community Council — — 68 230 298 Petah Tikva, Municipality — — 32 104 136 Rehovot, Local Council — — — 8 27 35 Rishon-le-Zion, Local Council — — 10 49 59 Ramat Gan and vicinity — — — 16 68 84 Herzlia, Kfar Saba and Ra'anana — — 23 41 64 Total — — 490 2,956 3,446 The above table comprises the number of visits paid by immigrants to Social Service bureaux, but the number of those assisted was far less. In many cases, applicants visited the respective bureaux several times before action in their cases was completed.