The Nathan and Lina Straus Health Center in Jerusalem will be dedicated on May 2, according to an announcement by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which has received the center as a gift from Nathan Straus.
The institution, which was built at a cost of $250,000, will be the headquarters for Hadassah’s program of preventive work and mass health education. One of its chief features will be a pasteurization laboratory, such as Mr. Straus established in this city about twenty-five years ago.
The arrangements are being made under the direction of Miss Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and now a member of the Palestine Zionist Executive in Jerusalem, who is chairman of the Straus Center Committee.
The building is three stories high, and combines American and Oriental features in its architecture. It is 100 by 150 feet in dimensions and is erected around four sides of a square. It is located in the heart of Jerusalem, a few blocks from the Rothschild Hospital. Mr. Straus is building a similar center in Tel Aviv, and this institution has also been given over to Hadassah to administer.
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