Establishment of a new tuberculosis sanitarium to cost $54,000 at Asheville, N. C. by the Independent Order B’nai B’rith, is recommended in a report of the special committee of District Grand Lodge No. 5 of the Order, made public here by Julius Reis of this city, Chairman of the Committee.
The report of the Committee states that the movement for the establishment of the sanitarium was initiated by the Asheville B’nai B’rith Lodge a number of years ago, and traces developments in connection with the movement up to the present time. According to the report, the Asheville Jewish community is daily subjected to appeals of tuberculosis victims of the Jewish faith who come there penniless to seek relief and medical assistance, and who become charges upon the Asheville Jewish charities. The sanitarium has been projected as a constructive plan to deal with the increasing difficulties of this problem.
According to the plan proposed by the committee’s report, besides the $54,000 cost of the building, an annual budget of about $20,000 per year is provided, excluding a medical staff, since it is felt that for the first year or two, the medical attention would be furnished gratis by the physicians of Asheville.
The report recommends “an intensive and intelligent” campaign, with the lodges within the territory of the District Grand Lodge No. 5 as the nucleii of the machinery for the campaign to establish the sanitarium. The report also declares that the District Grand Lodge of B’nai B’rith is the only medium through which such an institution as the sanitarium can be founded at Asheville.
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