Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 295

In addition to visits by the management of the Immigration Dept., special inspectors were sent to investigate the charges of forgeries, and others were appointed at the Palestine Office in Warsaw to deal with those found guilty and to prevent the recurrence of such incidents. The General Council which met in April, 1935, after hearing the report on this matter, passed a resolution approving the steps taken by the Immigration Dept. and the instructions given to the Palestine Offices for the prevention in the future of peculation in connection with immigration certificates. As certain parties and groups used their influence in the Palestine Offices to extort from immigrants money in the form of immigration taxes, the General Council resolved, on the suggestion of the Immigration Dept., to prohibit groups and parties from taking payment from immigrant? in any form whatsoever, whether as an immigration tax or as a contribution to party funds. These resolutions did much to help the Immigration Department in its fight against the disgraceful manipulation of certificates. E.—Health Office of the Immigration Department. , The question of medical inspection of immigrants before setting out and at the immigration hostels in Palestine has become more serious with the changes in the social composition of the immigration. The Immigration Dept. set up a Health Office (directed by Dr. I. Davidson) to supervise the medical inspection of immigrants at the Palestine Offices and to be. in correspondence with medical institutions in this country on all health matters concerning immigrants. The Health Office is in constant communication with the doctors attached to the Palestine Offices, and issues instructions for coordinating and improving the medical inspection of immigrants. It supervises the immigration hostels and immigrants' kitchens. It may be pointed out that great improvement is to be noted in the medical inspection of immigrants as a result of instructions from the Health Office. VII. Transport to Palestine. The Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency has in the past few years been faced by the problem as to how to transport thousands of emigrants across the seas and arrange their arrival in accordance with the working seasons and within the time limit of their certificates. The capacity of the boats plying between Europe and Palestine was inadequate to the various categories of emigrants who now aggregate 5,000 a month, not 295