The appointment of a committee to call a conference of representatives of Jewish consumptive relief societies, including the Ex-Patients’ Tubercular Home, the National Hospital in Denver, the EX-Patients’ Tubercular Home at Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Sanitarium, to devise ways and means of working out plants for the establishment in the congested sections of the country of joint medical boards whose duty it will be to allocate to the various sanitoria the applicants for treatment in accordance with the need of such applicants that may best serve the curative possibility of such patients, and the approval of the present building program were the two outstanding features of the seventh annual convention of the Deborah Jewish Consumptive Relief Society.
Five hundred delegates from the Eastern part of the country attended the sessions at which contributions in cash and pledges amounting to approximately $100,000 towards the building programs were announced; $75,000 as a result of a campaign in Philadelphia and $25,000 from a number of smaller communities. The delegates pledged themselves to raise the entire sum of $1,250,000 needed to put through the building program.
In her annual message Mrs. Solomon Shapiro of New York compared the institution’s membership of 43 when it was founded seven years ago with its present membership of over 10,000 with 1,465 affiliated organizations and 14 auxiliaries. She said that the total income since its inception was $384,150. Of this amount $185,126 was applied to the upkeep of the hospital and $120,000 to expenses, leaving a surplus of $79,000.
Income for 1929 was $38,920 with an expenditure of $51,306, leaving a deficit of $12,306 for the year. The income for the building fund in 1929 was $29,598. Mrs. Shapiro reported the purchase of 105 acres immediately adjoining the present location as a site for a new plant. The plans for the new building include provisions for 48 afflicted children. All officers were reelected.
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