Einstein Lauds Jewish Health House in Kishineff

If people could travel by telegraph, Professor Albert Einstein said, he would have been present at the opening of the Jewish Health House established here by the Jewish Health Organization, Oze, to engage in medical aid work among the Jewish population of Bessarabia, which is now severely stricken by famine and frost.

“I greet you and rejoice with you in the opening of the Health House. To my great regret, I am unable to be present in person. I should certainly have come, if the technical side of the problem of human transport had been solved by the telegraph,” declared the noted scientist. who is the Honorary President of the Oze World Organization.

Messages were also received from Dr. Bernhard Kahn. European Director of the Joint Distribution Committee. Dr. Redcliffe N. Salaman, Hon. Vice-President of the Oze World Organization, and President of the Jewish Health Organization of Great Britain, the Oze Organizations in London, Warsaw, Danzig, Kovno, Riga, and other centres and the International Child Aid Federation in Geneva.

Delegations were present from Jewish social organizations and institutions all over Bessarabia. The Government was represented by Dr. Stadu, Inspector of Sanitation, and representatives attended on behalf of the City Council. the Medical Association, the Kishineff Hospital, the Cooperative banks, artisans’ organizations, trading and industrial organizations, the Ort and other bodies.

Chief Rabbi Zirelson delivered an address, emphasizing the popular character of the work of the Oze. The new Health House contains a consulting room for maternal and child aid, a child milk station, departments for the treatment of rickets, scrofula, etc., a modern run-ray treatment cabinet, an ambulatory for school-children, a department for combating infectious skin diseases, a half for lectures on hygiene, a department of control for sports and athletic organizations.