A campaign for $1,000,000 to build a new sanatorium for tubercular patients near New York was launched at the opening session of the fourth annual convention of the Deborah Jewish Consumptive Relief Society, at the Broadway Central Hotel, Saturday night. Plans for building the new sanatorium have already been made, Mrs. Solomon Schapiro, president of the Deborah Society, announced in her opening address at the convention.
“Work on construction of the sanatorium will be begun at once,” Mrs. Schapiro stated, “and every effort will be made to have the new institution open for service to the public early in 1930.”
The Deborah Society is a non-sectarian organization with headquarters at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, and sanatorium at Browns Mills, In-The-Pines. New Jersey. During the past year, 132 new patients were admitted for treatment from thirty different cities, with a total number of 18,356 patient days, the largest number in the Society’s history.
Speakers declared that there had been an increase of almost three per cent in the tuberculosis death rate during the past year and that the cause for this increase was to be laid to the fact that facilities for handling patients seeking admission to sanatoria are insufficient. Every sanatorium in the Eastern States is now filled to capacity, it was stated.
Among the speakers were Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein. president of the Orthodox Congregations of America, Louis C. Schwartz, vice-president of the Board of Education of Newark, Louis A. Fast, tax commissioner of Newark, William M. Goldweber, Supreme Court Commissioner of Jersey City, Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York and Philip J. Schotland of Newark.
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