Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 411

printing of the first volume has already been started/ and itwill be' published about Rosh Hashanah 5696, edited by j. Cohen and F. Lach over. (rf): To assist the Language Board to organise its work on a scientific basis and to publish ordinary and technical dictionaries, etc. Up to Tammuz, with the help of the Bialik Foundation, two quarterly numbers of Sefatenu {" Our Tongue ") have been published by the Board. '; V (e) The publication of five pamphlets on a survey of Palestine and its past. , ( (/) The offer of annual prizes for .original work in the various literary branches. Two prizes for fiction (£P. 200 and <£ P. 100 respectively) have been allocated for the current year, two prizes for scientific work (<£P. 200 and £P. 100 respectively), two prizes for children's books (£P. 100 and £P. 50 respectively), and two prizes for translations (£P. 35 each). (g) The Foundation attaches great importance to the publication of the literary thesaurus, which was the aim of the late Chaim Nachman Bialik. 6. The Board allocated for all these purposes for the time being £3,300. All the books issued under the auspices of the Foundation will not be published by the Board but by publishing firms. , , 7. The Jewish Agency Executive considers the allocating of £5,000 only as a beginning and as an annual grant to the Foundation, which has been established by the World Zionist movement in memory of the late Chaim Nachman Bialik, and it hopes that the forthcoming Zionist Congress and the Agency Council will find the further requisite means to enable the Bialik Foundation to extend its activities for the benefit of Hebrew literature, the Hebrew language and Hebrew culture. F.—JEWISH HEALTH WORK. Report of the Health Department of the Vaad-Leumi for the Period 5694-5695. A.—Hygienic Conditions in Palestine. The year 1934 showed a marked increase in endemic diseases, namely malaria and enteric maladies. Serious outbreaks of malaria were recorded during the summer months in the Sharon settlements, the valley of Hefer and in Samaria. Similar outbreaks were recorded during the autumn months in the Jordan Valley. Those localities that had till lately enjoyed a state of immunity were now hardly hit by epidemic outbreaks of the diseases just mentioned. No fewer than 5,000 new cases of malaria were recorded during 1934 in the above districts by the Kupath Holim 411