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REPOUA PHARMACY COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
AND THE MEÏR ELIAS HOSPITAL
Founded in 1884
Dar Al-Shifa Pharmacy Association
and Meir Elias Hospital * Baghdad
Society of the Founders of the House of Medicine
in Baghdad
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Baghdad, the 192
Baghdad, November 26, 1928
His Eminence the respected ⟦Hakham Bashi⟧ of Baghdad
After offering our respects;
Since the Meir Elias Hospital is in an unprecedented financial squeeze and a deplorable state, we hope
that you will urgently order the payment of the rent for the National School building, which is endowed to the hospital, so that
the administration can cover even a small portion of its needs.
With our advance thanks and gratitude to your Eminence;
⟦Vice President⟧
REFOUA PHARMACY COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
AND MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL
Founded in 1884
Dar al-Shifa Pharmacy Association
and Meir Elias Hospital * Baghdad
Society of the Founders of the House of Medicine
Baghdad
Baghdad, on: 6 January 1928
192:
His Eminence the Honorable Hakham Bashi of Baghdad
After offering respects - with reference to our previous petition and in support of it, we state that the administration of the hospitals
of the Israelite community is in unprecedented financial distress, and we have been burdened by many debts that
have accumulated upon us from salaries for doctors and other employees, medicines, fuel, and the like, which amount to
eight thousand rupees or more at the present time. The administration has not been able to manage matters further in
such a miserable state. Therefore, it has become necessary to address this issue. We hope and repeat our request, asking for the payment of what
is due to the aforementioned hospitals from allocations and others, as detailed below:-
First: Three thousand rupees, the hospitals' allocation from the revenues of the Rivka Nouriël endowments.
Second: The rent for the National School, which is part of the hospital's endowments.
Third: The monthly allocations for the past two months.
Fourth: The hospitals' entitlement from the revenues of the intestines.
In conclusion, we offer your Eminence our advance thanks and gratitude, sir;
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
16 December 1928
Honorable Vice President of the Israeli Hospitals Committee
Subject: Payment of (5200) Rupees on the hospital account
After greetings, with reference to your letter dated 6 / 12 / 928
Since your requests cannot be definitively considered except by the
venerable Lay Council, and based on the hospital's urgent need for funds, we
have decided to provide you with the sum of 5200 five thousand two hundred rupees by order of Sassoon
Effendi Haron on the account existing between you and the Council, pending the convening of
the new Council and its final consideration of the matter. Please provide us with a receipt
for this.
Respectfully yours,
Acting Hakham Bashi
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REFOUA PHARMACY COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
AND MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL
Founded in 1884
Dar Al-Shifa Pharmacy Association
and Meir Elias Hospital * Baghdad
Society of the Founders of the House of Medicine
Baghdad
⟦line⟧
225
1/20
Baghdad, on:
192:
To His Excellency the President of the Honorable Israelite Lay Council
In Baghdad ⟦line⟧
After greetings and respect.
Since the debt established against Yaqub Ibrahim Shamash, the contractor for Elias and Al-Ward,
has become due, and despite our notification to him, he is still procrastinating on payment, we
found no way but to file a lawsuit against him for the remaining amount owed by him, which is 400
rupees. Since the promissory note is to the order of the Lay Council, we have submitted to your Excellency
the aforementioned promissory note, requesting the order to file the lawsuit against the contractor as quickly as possible. Respectfully yours.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
To the Secretary
Place this request on the agenda of the next meeting
21 - 10 - 29 ⟦signature⟧
Note
The contractor is without security, and therefore he must be brought in as quickly as possible.
⟦illegible stamp in red ink⟧
The Hakham Bashi
of the Israelite Community in Baghdad
Number: ⟦240⟧
Date: 18 March
Telephone Number: 700 Central
To
Yaqub Ibrahim Shamash
Contractor for Myrtle and Roses at Meir Elias Hospital
Subject: Notice of Obligation to Pay a Promissory Note
We notify you of the obligation to pay the value of the promissory note due to the Lay Council from you
dated 1 Tishrei 5689 (Hebrew) in the amount of 450 four hundred and fifty rupees
And since you have paid from it an amount of fifty-one rupees (51), there remains
due from you an amount of three hundred and ninety-nine rupees (399), which is the remainder of the value -
of the contract for Myrtle and Roses at Meir Elias Hospital, which you are still stalling
in paying
Therefore, if you do not pay the value of the aforementioned promissory note within a week starting
from the date of this notice, we will be forced to file a lawsuit against you in
the civil courts to collect our explicit right, and we will hold you liable for everything the lawsuit requires
in terms of court fees, legal fees, and others
Acting Hakham Bashi of Baghdad
The Hospital
⟦Written by⟧
Jewish Lay Council
Baghdad.
Administration of the Lay Council
of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Telephone: 200 Central,
Telephone: 200 Central
No. Number :: 220 / JS / 929
Date Date :: 18 June 1929
Subject: Organizing Ketubot transactions
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His Eminence the Acting Hakham Bashi of Baghdad, the Respected
Enclosed you will find two letters from the Hospitals Committee regarding the organization of Ketubot transactions. The
Council has decided to refer them to your Eminence to provide your views on what is stated in them and to return them.
Furthermore, the Council requests that you explain at the same time what information you have regarding
the method of registering Ketubot followed until recent days,
Vice President of the Lay Council
Office of the Hakham Bashi in Baghdad
Number 68
Date 18 June 929
M. A.
4/518
June 1929
Hospital
Regarding the Ketubot seal
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Honorable Vice President of the Respected Lay Council
Reference to your letter No. 220 / Jas / 1929 dated June 18, 1929
Not long ago, we considered that the Ketubot should be stamped with the seal of the Spiritual Court and signed by
its president. Following the dissolution of the Spiritual Court, we began signing the Ketubot. Since signing the Ketubot
after it has been signed by the witnesses and the husband is not a mandatory religious matter, but rather to protect the wife's rights
only. And since it is possible that the marriage contract might be lost by the wife or stolen by the husband, therefore
registering it in this department and sealing it by us is to protect the wife's rights from loss, as we explained
previously.
The respected Council is free to choose whether to keep the process of registering the Ketubot in this department or to cancel it.
M. A.
Acting Hakham Bashi
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Quinine
Hydrochloride 0.20
Arrhenal 0.05
Nux Vomica Extr. 0.05
Gummy Mars Extr. 0.20
⟦for⟧ 18 pills ⟦6 per day⟧
July 30, 1929
Giving medicine to Rubin Salman for free
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Respected Chairman of the Israeli Hospitals Committee
According to our private information, Rubin Salman is an orphan and he is poor, and since he
is still under treatment in your clinic
We hereby request that you give him the medicine he needs for free.
Acting Chief Rabbi
M. M.
2/11/58
To the Honorable Hakham Bashi
I had undertaken the commitment to sell the myrtle and flowers belonging to the hospital for a period of two years in a divine manner based on the desire of the previous Board of Directors for the benefit
of the hospital, and I had apologized for this commitment for a second time, and on the occasion of the hospital's closure, I was surrounded again by the general community
so that I could benefit even if meagerly. Since I took this commitment, I have encountered many problems from troublemakers, among them the former Yehuda Shamash
and his associates, who practice selling myrtle and flowers as they wish without opposition or factory. I have repeatedly appealed orally and in writing to the Council,
the Honorable Board of Directors, and to the hospital director and ⟦...⟧ and I saw no result, as it is not hidden from your presence that this matter
relates to helping the sick, and I am a poor man with a large family. By this commitment, I was harmed for the benefit, and since this commitment was prior and was not organized,
I was paying installments, each installment 450 rupees, for the account of others without my presentation, and I believe your conscience does not accept this injustice.
⟦...⟧ Therefore, the payment of the third installment is stopped. The hospital director had decided to open ⟦...⟧ the myrtle and flowers which is within the myrtle.
⟦...⟧ The Hakham ordered me, despite that, to be placed and to guarantee that no one interferes, and in compliance with the decisions, I have placed the installment.
What has been achieved and what I can reach is that during the era of the late great Yehuda Shamash, he spent over forty liras, and in my synagogue
⟦...⟧ the areas of Luladet in rupees, as it appears that the attached commitment is according to the statement of ⟦...⟧ the hospital's rights and my rights.
Is it reasonable and logical that I pay money from my pure wealth while others sell as they wish? Since this movement entails damage to this commitment
which affects the rights of the patients, I hope to conduct investigations into these ⟦...⟧ and take the necessary action in providing us with a statement of the substitute in a manner
that guarantees us the continuation of this commitment ⟦...⟧ to your Excellency.
Sincerely,
Yaqub Ibrahim
Shamash
The Hospital
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⟦illegible stamp⟧
⟦line⟧
To the Honorable Vice President of the Jewish Community Hospitals Committee
Respectfully,
Since, due to the current circumstances, I wish to be initially exempted from working on the committee and all other
committees, I find myself forced to withdraw from working on community affairs, and I
am among those who pray for success. Yours respectfully, ⟦Sincerely⟧ Doctor
⟦Dalhoum⟧
Presented to His Eminence Rabbi Ibrahim Aslan, the respected
Acting Chief Rabbi in Baghdad
⟦Liquidator⟧
Vice President of the Committee
Committee File
Office of the Chief Rabbi - Baghdad
Number 446
Date 8 / 4 / 927
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
Telephone No . . . . . . .
JEWISH COMMUNITY'S
HOSPITALS BAGHDAD
ESTABLISHED
1884
Society of the Founders of the Hospital
Baghdad
Management Committee of the Hospitals
of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Established in the year 1884
Telephone No . . . . . . . .
No. 52
Date: March 31, 930
Subject:
To the Honorable Dr. Abdullah Effendi,
After greetings - Since the order for the appointment of a permanent internal physician for Meir Elias Hospital has been ⟦issued⟧,
and the Lay Council has approved the appointment of Dr. Nassim Snanir to occupy the aforementioned position
according to the contract concluded between the Committee and the aforementioned physician and certified by
the Lay Council, and since your duties at Meir Elias Hospital will naturally decrease as
there is no longer a need to visit patients in the evening or to stay at the hospital two nights a week,
the Committee has decided to set your salary at one hundred and fifty rupees per month starting from April 1, 930,
instead of two hundred rupees per month. On this occasion, we would like to inform you that the Committee appreciates
your services duly and thanks you for them, but it regrets taking the aforementioned decision in view of
the tight budget, and it is not possible to conduct matters in any other way. Respectfully yours,
⟦illegible signature⟧
Vice President
Copy to the Accountant
Telephone No ⟦line⟧
JEWISH COMMUNITY'S
HOSPITALS BAGHDAD
ESTABLISHED
1884
Society of the Founders of the Hospital
Baghdad
Management Committee of the Hospitals
of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Established in 1884
Telephone No ⟦line⟧
No / Number: 522
Date / Date: April 6, 1940
Subject / Subject:
To the respected Dr. Nassim Nassani
Physician at Meir Elias Hospital
Greetings: It has been agreed that the examination and inspection of patients suffering from internal diseases
shall be conducted in their entirety every morning by you in participation with Dr. Abana under your responsibility towards
the Chief Physician, Operator Muhammad Kafi Bey. As for the surgeries performed in the hospital,
you must attend them with Dr. Abana to assist the Operator to whom the case is referred.
With respect,
⟦illegible⟧
Vice President
Copy to the respected Chief Physician Dr. Muhammad Kafi Bey
Copy to the respected Dr. Abana
⟦illegible stamp⟧
Telephone No ⟦line⟧
⟦illegible⟧SH COMMUNITY'S
HOSPITALS BAGHDAD
ESTABLISHED
1884
Society of the Founders of the Medical House
Baghdad
Management Committee of the Hospitals of
the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Established in the year 1884
Telephone No ⟦line⟧
Subject ⟦line⟧
No: 549
Date: 24 April / 1930
His Eminence Rabbi Ibrahim Aslan Yehuda, the Respected
Acting Deputy Chief Rabbi of Baghdad.
After offering respects.
Due to the approach of the end of the month and the necessity of paying salaries at the appointed time, the Committee requests
that you kindly send a check for the following amounts:-
| Rupee | Anna
Hospital allocations for the month of April / 1930 at a rate of twenty thousand rupees annually. | 1666 | 11
The hospital's share of the intestines revenue for the month of April / 1930. | 836 | ⟦03⟧
The remainder of the rent for the Khan Bakr plot. | 5353 | 09
Total. | 7856 | 07
Deducting what the Committee received via check number 336985. | 1200 | 00
The remainder. | 6656 | 7
With much gratitude and respect to your Eminence, Sir.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
Office of the Chief Rabbi - Baghdad
Number 457
Date 25 / 4 / 930
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
To the Accountant
24 April 930
H
JEWISH COMMUNITY'S
HOSPITALS BAGHDAD
ESTABLISHED
1884
Society of the Founders of the Hospital
in Baghdad
Management Committee of the Hospitals
of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Established in the year 1884
Telephone No:
No / Number: 551
Date / Date: 27 April 1930
Subject / Subject:
Telephone Number:
His Eminence the Acting Chief Rabbi of Baghdad, the Respected
After offering respect
Following and completing our letter No. 549 dated 4 April 1930
The allocations of the Lay Council for the management of hospitals were ⟦1200⟧ Rupees
annually. However, the aforementioned Lay Council had made that ⟦1500⟧ Rupees, meaning it added to
that ⟦300⟧ Rupees annually so that the hospital management could carry out the school clinics project and appoint
an internal doctor and another for the Rima Meir Hospital. And since the committee has implemented the two mentioned projects
it has become necessary to consider the annual allocations ⟦1500⟧ Rupees as stated in the letter
of the previous Lay Council No. 222 / S / 29 dated 27 / 8 / 929 notified to ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ for the management of hospitals
⟦...⟧ the Lay Council that it ⟦...⟧ reasons for dispensing and its rejection of the request as stated
considering that the deficiency ⟦...⟧ the deficiency ⟦...⟧
his kindness in our aforementioned letter ⟦...⟧
Office of the Chief Rabbi - Baghdad
Number 462
Date 28 / 4 / 930
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
Chairman of the Committee
⟦illegible signature⟧
To the Honorable Lay Council
⟦illegible blue stamp⟧
Baghdad, April 28, 1930
His Excellency the Acting Chief Rabbi, Respected
Reference to the two letters from the Hospitals Committee numbered 549 and 551 and dated
April 24 and 27, 1930, which were referred to me
I place below the text of the second paragraph of the Council's resolution No. 266 dated 8/25/1930
"Based on the two letters received from the aforementioned committee dated May 7 and July 9
of the year 1929, numbered 75 and 178, containing a request to establish clinics for treating the eyes
of students in the community's schools and bringing a doctor to be the director of the Meir Elias Hospital, and since
these two matters require an increase in expenditure, the Council has decided to increase the
usual allocations by three thousand eight hundred rupees (3800) in addition to the allocations amounting to sixteen
thousand two hundred rupees, so the Council's allocations to the community's hospitals became twenty thousand rupees
(20,000) on the condition that the Council pays that increase upon bringing the aforementioned director doctor
and establishing the clinics mentioned above."
Please note that the Lay Council has approved the appointment of the internal physician
Dr. Senans on March 10, 1930. This is what had to be presented, and the matter is for your Excellency.
⟦signature⟧
Accountant
N. M.
Office of the Chief Rabbi - Baghdad
Number 462
Date 4/28/930
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
To be postponed for discussion in the next Council meeting, April 28 ⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Telephone No. ⟦line⟧
JEWISH COMMUNITY'S Management Committee of
HOSPITALS BAGHDAD The Israelite Community
ESTABLISHED
Baghdad 1884
Society of the Founders of the Hospital
Baghdad
No. Number:
Date: 20/5/92
Established in the year 1884:
Telephone Number ⟦line⟧:
Subject ⟦line⟧:
To the presence of His Eminence the Acting Hakham Bashi of Baghdad, the Respected
Greetings and respect,, Please provide us with a copy of the pharmacy contract
between the association and Doctor ⟦illegible⟧ the ophthalmologist in his capacity
which concerns its image in figures ⟦illegible⟧
us a copy of it and this is for the sake of what ⟦illegible⟧ regarding it except
our fear this request is for your grace and may you remain in respect
The Petitioner
⟦signature⟧
Send a copy of the contract to the Director
Meir Elias Hospital 21/5/92
Acting Hakham Bashi
Office of the Hakham Bashi - Baghdad
Number 494
Date 20 / 5 / 92
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
⟦red mark⟧
4 / 1152
22 May 1930
Director of Meir Elias Hospital
With reference to your letter dated 20 / 5 / 1930
You will find enclosed a true copy of the requested contract,
⟦seal⟧
Acting Chief Rabbi
N. M.
JEWISH COMMUNITY'S HOSPITALS BAGHDAD ESTABLISHED 1884:
Telephone No:
Management Committee of the Jewish Community Hospitals Baghdad:
Society of the Founders of the Baghdad Hospital:
Number No: 580
Date: 29 May 1930
Established in 1884:
Telephone Number:
Subject:
His Excellency the Acting Chief Rabbi of Baghdad, the Respected
After offering respects -
It is not hidden from your Excellency that the resigned Lay Council had decided in its meeting held
on ⟦1929⟧ to increase the hospital allocations and bring them up to twenty thousand rupees annually, meaning it added
3800 rupees annually to the previous allocations, and that was so the committee could undertake two very important
projects, which are the establishment of school clinics to treat the eyes of male and female students of the communal schools, and the project
of appointing a permanent internal physician for the Meir Elias Hospital, which made the hospital called a hospital in every
sense of the word, in addition to the fact that this was based on the insistence of the Director of Public Health, as he did not recognize the hospital
before it had a permanent responsible physician. Indeed, the two projects were carried out during the time of the resigned Lay Council,
and the Council at that time had sent us a portion of the allocations for the school clinics that were
actually operating then. Accordingly, we now hope that you will send us our monthly allocations at the rate of twenty thousand rupees
annually from now on, and that you send us the difference between this rate and the old rate for the month of April 1930,
so that we may be able to conduct matters properly. As for the benefits of the two aforementioned projects, we did not see a need to discuss
them more than this in this letter, as we have discussed them sufficiently in our recently printed annual report
distributed to the notables of the community, and we submit to you herewith five copies of it to be kept in the Chief Rabbinate office
and the Lay Council office according to the rules; and to your Excellency increased respect.
⟦illegible signature⟧
Vice President
Baghdad, June 930
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To the presence of His Excellency the Acting Hakham Bashi and Trustee of Meir Elias Hospital, the Respected
I refer to your Excellency the letter received from the Hospital Committee requesting
a physical exemption from the duties of the hospital management, a matter which
cannot be proven without the certification of the Lay Council on its letter
numbered 484 dated February 24, 924, which is kept in the records
of the Lay Council.
This is what had to be presented to your Excellency, and the matter is for your Excellency to decide.
Hospital Director
Yaqub Khabbaz
Ezekiel
Office of the Hakham Bashi - Baghdad
Number 506
Date 1 / 6 / 1930
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
True Copy
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Number 582
Date 20 May 1920
To the Director of Meir Elias Sassoon Hospital, Hasam Hasal
Based on the previous Physical Council's ratification of the contract concluded between the Committee and Dr. Sassoon,
which includes the appointment of the aforementioned doctor as a permanent physician for Meir Elias Hospital and its director, your
position has become canceled by virtue of the decision of the Council referred to above, and you have become outside the hospital staff,
especially since the hospital budget is very tight, so it is not possible to continue paying any salary to you in any
form whatsoever. Accordingly, the Committee decided to notify you of this matter and cut your salary starting from the first of June 1920.
We ask you to immediately hand over the administrative matters to your successor, Dr. Sassoon, and the collection matters to
your assistant, Sion Effendi Moallem.
Signature
Vice President
Hazal
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A copy of it to:
To the respected Dr. Sassoon to take over the administration
" " The assistant Sion Effendi Moallem to take over the receipt book
Hakham Bashi
The Chief Rabbi
of The Jewish Community, Baghdad
of The Jewish Community,
Baghdad
Telephone: 200 Central.
Telephone : 200 Central.
No.: 1162 / H
No.:
Date: 6 / 6 / 1930
Date:
Subject: Dispensing with the services of the Director of Meir Elias Hospital
To the Honorable Hospitals Committee of the Community
With reference to your letter No. 582 dated May 20, 1930, addressed to the Director of Meir Elias
Hospital.
We draw the attention of your honorable committee to our letter No. 484 dated February 24, 1930,
submitted to the previous Lay Council, requesting approval to dispense with the
services of the Hospital Director, Sassoon Effendi, in accordance with Article Nine of the Committee's
Internal Regulations.
The aforementioned article entrusted the matter of dispensing with the services of the Hospital Director to
the Lay Council alone. Since the Lay Council has not yet approved the
Committee's request mentioned in its aforementioned letter, we find that what was stated in the letter referred to
at the beginning of this message, in which you dismiss the Hospital Director from his position, does not comply with
the authority granted to your committee under its internal regulations. We believe it is necessary
to postpone the decision on this matter until the new Lay Council convenes
and decides what it deems appropriate.
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Acting Hakham Bashi
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A copy of it to the Director of Meir Elias Hospital to act according to the above
" " " Dr. Senans for information
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Telephone No ⟦line⟧
JEWISH COMMUNITY'S
HOSPITALS BAGHDAD
ESTABLISHED
1884
Society of the Founders of the Hospital
Baghdad
Management Committee of the Hospitals of
the Jewish Community
Baghdad
No: 584
Number: 584
Date: 1 June 1930
Date: 1 June 1930
Established in the year: 1884
Telephone Number:
Subject: ⟦line⟧
Subject: ⟦line⟧
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Office of the Chief Rabbi - Baghdad
Number 507
Date 4 / 6 / 1930
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI
BAGHDAD
His Eminence the Acting Chief Rabbi of Baghdad, Respected
After offering respects.
With reference to your letter No. 1162 / H dated 1 / 6 / 1930.
The Lay Council has ratified the contract concluded between the Committee
and Dr. Senans, which includes the appointment of the latter as a permanent doctor for Meir Elias Hospital
and its director; therefore, the position of the former director, Sassoon Effendi, has become canceled by virtue of
the decision of the Council referred to above. As for our letter which you mentioned dated 24 February
1930, it was before the ratification of the aforementioned contract, so there is no longer a need to decide on it
after the Council's ratification of the new director's contract. In any case, the matter rests with the Committee
and the Lay Council. The Committee regrets its inability to change its decision in this regard
since keeping two directors in the hospital necessitates spending amounts without justification and exceeding
the budget and the endowment together, and entails responsibility. The former director, Sassoon Effendi, must
wait for the formation of the new Lay Council, and we are ready to assist him in that.
This, and to your Excellency, further respect.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
Copy to Dr. Senans
" " " Former Director Sassoon Effendi } for information
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4/1162
June 4, 1930
Regarding the termination of the services of the Director of Meir Elias Hospital
Honorable Vice President of the Sectarian Hospitals Committee
Reference to your letter No. 584 dated June 1, 1930
The approval of the Lay Council of the contract concluded between your committee and Dr.
Sinans does not dispense with the need for another decision to terminate the services of the hospital director. Furthermore,
since the aforementioned director manages the hospital's accounting affairs himself at present, there is
no justification for your committee, in this situation, to hand over this position to someone whose competence and certificates do not qualify them to perform
it, just as the appointment of an accountant to handle the affairs of this position inevitably requires the approval of the Lay
Council.
There is no doubt that your esteemed committee agrees with us that dismissing an employee who has served in his position for over thirty
years, with his competence witnessed by all successive Lay Councils and hospital committees,
is not fair at all. This is exactly what prompted the previous Lay Council to delay
considering your committee's decision to terminate the services of the aforementioned director.
Furthermore, we draw your esteemed committee's attention to the following important points, which we hope you will take
into consideration:
a) This department sees no justification for appointing a foreign director for Meir Elias Hospital.
b) Given the financial crisis gripping the sect's treasury, the termination of Dr. Sinans' contract has become
obligatory for your committee; if you persist, the Lay Council will handle it on its behalf at the first meeting.
I do not think your committee finds it wise to prolong the discussion of this case, which costs the sect
precious efforts, time, and money wasted to no avail.
I hope your esteemed committee will kindly note that it is necessary to take the wishes of this
department, which represents the sectarian councils at present and is the trustee of Meir Elias Hospital,
into consideration. Your committee may not take negative measures against it as long as these wishes do
not exceed the scope of the regulations.
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Abraham
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Chief Rabbi of Baghdad
and Trustee of Meir Elias Hospital
A copy of it to the hospital director for information accordingly