Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 425

special courses on malaria at the malaria station of the Hebrew University at Rosh-Pinah. 32. Improvements and repairs were carried out in the clinics of Givat Adah, Nahaliel, Sedjerah, Herzliah, Rosh-Pinah, Yesod- Hamaalah, Mishmar-Hayarden, Metullah, Nathaniah, etc. Specialists were instructed to visit the colonies in Samaria and in the Galilee. Agreements were also concluded with private dental practitioners for special terms for subscribers. Similarly agreements for more favourable terms were concluded with the Bikkur-Holim in Jerusalem, the Sanatorium of Rammat-Gan, and with private hospitals in Tel-Aviv and Haifa. The majority of patient subscribers to this Fund were admitted under favourable terms to the Hadassah Hospital and to subsidiary institutions. The total number of days of sickness spent in the foregoing institutions amounted to 10,000. 33. The management of this Fund controlled during the summer the Peter Schweitzer Hospital in Tiberias having an accommodation of twenty-five beds (this hospital was transferred to the Fund by the Keren Hayesod). The hospital rendered valuable service to farmers from the Galilean colonies who occupied about a third of the total accommodation. The National Sick Fund is now endeavouring to ensure the permanent maintenance of this hospital. 34. The budget of the National Sick Fund for the period 1933-34 was : INCOME. iP. Members subscriptions and contributions from the Rural Councils ... 4,204 Direct payments for services .................. 1,614 Payments for medicines ..................... 1,009 Hadassah contributions ..................... 660 Sundry sources........................... 82 £P.7,569 EXPENDITURE. £P. Management............................ 747 Medical personnel ........................ 3,735 Medicines ... ............. ............ 870 Hospital accommodation ... ... ... ............ 1,614 Contribution to the P. Schweitzer Hospital ............ ISO Office Expenditure ........................ 302 Miscellaneous ........................ 84 Surplus .............................. 67 £P.7,569 F.—The Women's International Zionist Organisation. 35. The W.I.Z.O. continued along the lines of their medical work in the preventive and the social welfare sphere. Work was concentrated on mother and child treatment. The budget for this 425