Institutions affiliated with the Jewish Federation of Chicago spent $14,500,000 last year to provide medical and social welfare services for some 167,000 persons, Mortimer B. Harris, president of the Federation, reported, here at the organization’s 56th annual dinner meeting. The hospitals and welfare agencies had an operating deficit of $4,346,000 last year, Mr. Harris added.
Samuel A. Goldsmith executive vice-president of the Federation, reported that the gross budgets of the Federation’s agencies will reach an all-time high of more than $16,000,000 this year. He pointed out that in the past decade the Federation’s agencies have spent $106,000,000 and that the Federation had allocated $52,500,000 of that total.
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