General Subsidy Expenditure, for 1934-5. £P. £P. For hygienic and ophthalmic services in schools 8,705 1,620 For child treatment services ...... ... 10,765 925 Hospital for consumptives in Safed...... 5,276 1,700 Total ... ...... 24,746 4,2…

The representations for increasing our yearly subsidy were based particularly on the section dealing with ophthalmic services outside the schools. In all our discussions with the Health department, the Chief Secretary, the Treasurer, and th…

12. The Hadassah budget for 1933-4 was as follows : Income. m % (1) External Sources : (a) The W.I.Z.O. and Junior Hadassah in America 45,780 (b) Baron de Rothschild's donation ......... 2,006 (c) Various Funds ............ ... 855 iP.48,64…

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…

The medical stations of Hadassah in Tiberias rendered invaluable services to the victims of the floods in May, 1934. The number of patients who sought aid in the médical stations in Tiberias amounted to 7,406, with about 50 per cent, ophtha…

adolescents. The following figures indicate the extent of the work performed by the Hadassah health stations. Admitted. Treated. Number of women (pregnant) ...... 3,886 6,063 Number of children ......... 4,527 7,899 Number of adolescents ..…

of subscribers' families, the aggregate total of persons entitled to the benefits of this Sick Fund amounts to 80,000 (or one quarter of the total Yishuv). About 50 per cent, of the members are employed in the towns and the remainder in the…

1933-34 amounted to £P. 113,614. The contributions from the various sources were approximately in the same proportions as in the previous year. There is a small increase in the contribution from employers, owing, no doubt, to the marked imp…

1 ducted with the aid of lectures and through the columns of the Labour daily Davar. An annual log devoted to maternal and child problems was published. Special attention was devoted to precautionary measures for the prevention of malaria i…

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-Hayarde…

work amounted to £P. 13,500, out of which £P. 7,900 were raised by the W.I.Z.O. in Palestine. 36. By the transfer of the Children's Home in Jerusalem to more suitable quarters, it has been made possible to increase the number of inmates fro…

Political Reports. I.—POLITICAL WORK IN LONDON. 1. The period since the last Congress has witnessed on the one hand a far-reaching deterioration in the Jewish position in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and on the other, a stri…

certificates by the Government from its own recent estimates, on account of alleged unauthorised settlement, has been the cause of very considerable disappointment. 4. In addition, a large variety of other questions were dealt with from tim…

development was expressed on a number of occasions; the Government has, however, restated its policy in this connection as being the establishment of a Legislative Council when the municipal bodies are in full working order. The following s…

a wise one, at a time when the Palestine Treasury had accumulated a substantial surplus. Whatever the financial expediency of the measure, however, it was urged that while the Loan made possible certain useful developments, the proposed all…

tion and enterprise, and though here and there a warning note is struck, particularly in regard to Arab-Jewish relations, the prevailing tone is one of optimism and a recognition of the quality of Jewish achievement in Palestine. On the oth…

Session which took place in June, 1935, the Executive presented a detailed memorandum, accompanied by a covering letter, setting forth the development of the Jewish National Home during the preceding twelve months. 20. Both at the session i…

France. 23. Visits were paid by Dr. Sokolow and Dr. Brodetsky to Paris, and, with the valued assistance of Monsieur Justin Godart, functions were arranged in connection with the Société France- Palestine. Dr. Sokolow was received by the Pre…

II. DEVELOPMENTS IN PALESTINE. I.—Immigration. 1. The two years which have elapsed since the 18th Congress have been a period of unprecedented increase in Jewish immigration to Palestine and of an equally unprecedented struggle with the Gov…

Jewish Agency's Government's estimate of estimate of absorptive absorptive Net Schedule Grant (i.e., Gov. estimate capacity (Total capacity, applied for). less Period. % 26.5 31.0 52.1 deductions). Oct. 1933—Mar. 34 April—Sept., 1934 Oct. 1…