Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 419

14. Duringthis year the hospital acquired the services of lirst-class specialists, including those of a doctor famous in the field of women's diseases and obstetrics. Laboratory equipment was enlarged. A chemical laboratory was opened apart from the pathological laboratory. New instruments and materials were obtained for the various departments. Worthy of note is the fine gift of the family of Dr. J. Caplan, of New York, in the form of 100 milligrammes of radium and important instruments essential to the Radium Department. The Radium section has shown rapid improvement and now enjoys the full confidence of the non-Jewish as well as the Jewish public. Out of 224 patients in this section there were 142 Jews and 82 non-Jews. The Röntgen ray section as well as the Pathological Department have extended their fields of activity both internally and for out-patients. The latter department continued to serve as a central institution for this branch of treatment in the country. 15. It has now become possible for a great number of young doctors to specialise in the various hospitals. At present there are thirty-five voluntary doctors specialising in the hospital and its subsidiary institutions. The development of instructional and research work in this institution has brought it considerably nearer to its ambition of serving as a University hospital and as a medical centre for the country as a whole. The training school for nurses produced nine graduates this year, and although the number of students has been increased to fifty it is still incapable of meeting the growing demand, and. medical institutions have been obliged to make strong efforts to facilitate the immigration of nurses from abroad. 16. The scope of work of the Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem is shown in the following figures : Number of beds in hospital ............ 144 Number of patients admitted ............ 3,433 Patients seeking medical advice ............ 16,312 Number of visits for out-patients......... ... 106,699 Number of analyses in the laboratory ......... 21,530 Number of examinations in the Röntgen Institute ... 3,490 Number of examinations in the Pathological Department 954 Number of post-mortem operations ......... 50 More than half the number of patients admitted paid a maximum of 2s. per day. About 10 per cent, did not pay at all; 40 per cent, paid between 2s. and 9s. per day, i.e., less than their cost of keep; and only 10 per cent, of the total paid over 8s. per day. 17. The Hadassah institution in Safed continued to serve mainly as a hospital for consumptives (forty beds out of a total of fifty-four). Since it is impossible to enlarge this hospital because of the unfavourable condition of the building, it was decided to open another hospital for consumptives in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The number of patients (consumptives) admitted to the JSafed Hospital was 109. 419