Correspondence, Primarily Regarding the Jewish Hospital in Baghdad
View interactive document pageThese are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. The majority of the documents relate to the Jewish Hospital in Baghdad but included are other correspondence within the community. It also includes a letter from a German Jewish Doctor from 1933 trying to move to Baghdad.
360 on 24 Jan 31 Gentlemen of the Honorable Meir Elias Hospital Committee In our capacity as the heirs and beneficiaries above, we request you to kindly hand over to us the sum of fifteen gold pounds deposited with you in the name of our late father Ephraim ⟦Masha⟧ according to the list deposited with you and dated back. Upon receiving this amount, we discharge you from them Heskiel Salman Al-Yassin Keep
Al-Mushtaha Palace and the Al-Dawiya Guesthouse ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ Baghdad ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
Property Tax Department Closed <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> from ⟦September⟧ 24 to November 24 The doctor's residence from 15 November 24 The claim from (must be) November 24 to the end of March 24 for the year 24 And from April 24 to March 25 for the year 24. Attached is an assessment sheet for the year 24, and another sheet was sent to the inspector before this to assess the rent of 22, and the assessment was, as the tenant says, at 15 Dinars, while the assessment for 24 is 24 Dinars as you see. And the Property Tax Department claims 15 Dinars for the year 22, while it should have claimed Dinars: 5 × 15 because the house was occupied for a period of five months only from 15 November 24 to the end of March 24 as we mentioned above, while the other seven months are included within the period in which the house was closed. No one has come yet so I mentioned it to inform him about the entitlement to a quarter of the house door mentioned and building a wall in its place The door <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> between them - we can block it
2054 20 Ramadan 1353 and 26 December 34 His Excellency the Chairman of the Property Tax Audit Committee for the Baghdad District, Respected The Property Assessment Committee had assessed the house numbered 2/A/1 connected to Meir Elias Hospital and belonging to it at an amount of 120 Dinars annually and notified the hospital of this assessment. The fact is that the aforementioned house, after it was for rent, was vacated from 14 September 932 to 15 November 933, and from this date it was merged into the hospital and designated for the residence of the resident doctor who must be present in the hospital day and night, and the use of its external door was neglected. Therefore, it should be exempt from property tax according to paragraph (d) of Article (4) of the Property Tax Law No. 35 of the year 927. I request you to kindly consider my representations and issue a decision to exempt the aforementioned house from the tax, considering that it is property of our community and used for a charitable purpose. With respect to Your Excellency, L.Y.D. ⟦Harun⟧ On behalf of The Head of the Community
Iraqi Government Liwa (Province) ............. Qadaa (District) ............. Revenue / 43 Warning Issued pursuant to the first paragraph of Article Four of the Law for the Collection of Debts Owed to the Government No. 43 of 1931 Number: ............. Date: 11/2/1945 To :-: ⟦Head of the Jewish Community⟧ Since you have not paid the amount of ............. Dinars and ............. Fils which you were required to pay to the Treasury for ............. we hereby call upon you to pay it within ten days from the date of your receipt of this warning, otherwise we shall order the seizure of your movable property according to the first paragraph of Article Five of the Law for the Collection of Debts Owed to the Government No. 43 of 1931. ⟦signature⟧ Governor of Liwa ............. District Officer of Qadaa .............
3509 36 Quarter 12 April 36 P 3656 N Not 06 To the presence of Majid Effendi Al-Malik for 12 Caesarea, the city of Qadsar City, he said Based on your request, we submitted on 11/21 a financial receipt for trusts for the year one hundred eight 12 through your holiness And upon our receipt of our riyals which you took from Leiden for Leiden 061 and Leiden for the pillow of the world and we have We have 51 riyals 662 riyals, as in the tribe of Al-Labu we had seven piasters one hundred two four hundred And these we have received and the account is correct and according to what you arranged for us, it is type 662 of our riyals And according to this messenger and the bank sent it to me Leiden returning and according to what was arranged before you for a long time that its amount is our riyals Two parts, his riyals (3) in his trust (4), so you arranged it for us old from the value of his share an amount Due to me, Abq Abeh, or a quarter of Leiden, a quarter of the world, and we attached to it 762 piasters 56, there remained one hundred 12 And in the presentation of what you received for our expense for his work for this and the riyal of the world before what was old for it that we trusted And the account is still in the account On behalf of The deceased of the dam, the patient
2077 15 Shawwal 353 and 2 January 935 His Excellency the Director General of Revenues, Respected Reference to the warning numbered 115 dated 17 / 1 / 935 to Meir Elias Hospital I kindly request you to review our petition numbered 3054 dated 26 / 12 / 934 to the Chairman of the Property Tax Audit Committee and to kindly instruct to disregard the warning under discussion - and please accept my respects On behalf of The Head of the ⟦illegible⟧ Community
2178 6 June 935 and 9 April 935 His Excellency the Respected Minister of Interior Greetings and respect Based on the urgent need to employ a doctor with the rank of professor for internal diseases at Mar Elias Hospital, our choice fell on Dr. Georg Rosenow Professor Dr Georg Rosenow Charlottenburg Bleibtreustr. 19. Berlin who holds high certificates proving superior competence qualifying him for this position, so we hope Your Excellency will kindly grant us the necessary permit, and we are ready to present the certificates that he holds. ⟦signature⟧ On behalf of The Head of the Community
8 2227 30 May 935 2/5/935 His Excellency the Director of General Health, respected Greetings and respect I would like to refer to our letter No. 3178 dated 6 Muharram 354 and 9 April 935 to the Ministry of Interior regarding Professor Dr. George Rosenow, as the processing has been completed in the Ministry and it has finally been referred to Your Excellency, and I would be grateful for your kindness if you would consider it an urgent matter given the pressing need to bring the aforementioned professor; L ⟦Sassoon⟧ Head of the Community
Ministry of Interior Directorate of Public Health Baghdad - Iraq Telegraphic Address: Public Health: Telephone Number: 509 Baghdad: Ref No.: 8197 Date: 8 Rabi' al-Awwal / 1354 10 / 6 / 1935 To the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad. With reference to your letter No. 3337 dated 3 / 6 / 1935. The Ministry of Interior has approved the employment of Dr. George Rosenow at Meir Elias Hospital in Baghdad, provided that the same conditions under which Dr. Süssmann and others were employed are observed, i.e., that his work be limited to the activities of Meir Elias Hospital only. In this regard, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that the number of doctors employed at Meir Elias Hospital is sufficient at present in proportion to the hospital's equipment and number of beds, and we prefer in the future, when the need arises, to employ Iraqi doctors in the aforementioned institution. . A. A. ⟦signature⟧ Acting Director of Public Health. Copy to the Ministry of Interior with reference to its letter No. S / 881 dated 23 / 5 / 1935. Copy to the Registration Department at the Directorate of Public Health to take the necessary action. A. S.
Dr. George Rosenow, Professor of Internal Medicine 228 June 14, 1935 Ministry of Interior ⟦line⟧ Reference to the letter of the Directorate of Public Health No. 8167 dated 9 Rabi' al-Awwal 54 and 11 / 6 / 1935 to this Presidency and a copy of it to your Ministry The conditions set for the employment of Dr. Professor George Rosenow will lead to depriving poor and non-poor patients from outside the hospital of the ability of this great doctor and from benefiting from his art, and will prevent the dispensing of his medical prescriptions for patients who seek him for treatment inside the hospital from pharmacies, and this is what hinders his work ⟦line⟧ and prevents the patient from consulting him and wastes the intended benefit from bringing him, and on the other hand, the costs of the Dr. Professor will be more than one hundred dinars per month for ⟦line⟧ the hospital in the event that he is prohibited from practicing medicine outside, and this is an amount that the budget of the hospital cannot bear. However, in the event of his licensing, the hospital will benefit from his profits, a benefit that alleviates a significant part of the costs from the hospital's shoulders. It is also noted that bringing a specialist scientist like this does not touch any of the interests of Iraqi medicine and does not need restriction from this aspect because his work must be confined to a high advisory circle that helps Iraqi medicine instead of harming it; rather, we can assert that his presence has a general benefit because it must save a fair amount of the important ⟦line⟧ sums spent by many Iraqis on travel and medical treatment abroad at the hands of doctors who are not more experienced than this man. Therefore, we ask your esteemed Ministry to kindly grant us an absolute license so that we can benefit from the services of the Dr. Professor to the greatest extent possible; On behalf of The Head of the Community
La Nationale Life Insurance Joint Stock Company (Private enterprise governed by the law of March 17, 1905) FOUNDED IN PARIS IN 1830 Capital: 75,000,000 Francs Reserves: 1,000,000,000 Francs GENERAL AGENCY FOR NEW GREECE TELEPH. 24-88 TELEGR. ADDRESS: IMASSEO SALONICA, THE: March 7, 1935 P.O. BOX: 332 Mr. President - of the Jewish Community BAGHDAD ⟦line⟧ Gen. No. Part. No. Mr. President, I take the liberty of addressing this letter to you to solicit from you the favor of some information. It concerns my Father Mr. Isac Eliakim who was pass- ing through your city about 6 months ago and stayed at the NEW DIJLE HOTEL. I received only one letter from him with his address at the New Dijle Hotel and after having replied to him immediately at that address I have since then been without any news from him. I beg you to please take an interest in his case and if possible give me some information concerning my Father, because I no longer have the patience to wait to receive news from him and I do not know anyone in Baghdad. Waiting for the pleasure of hearing from you, please accept, Mr. President, with my anticipated thanks, my best greetings. Moise Eliakim ⟦signature⟧ Salonica March 7, 35 I am sending your Excellency this letter of mine, hoping to be provided with some information about my father Isaac Eliakim, who was traveling through Baghdad six months ago and stayed at the New Tigris Hotel. I received one letter from him at the address of the New Tigris Hotel and I sent him the answer to his mentioned letter immediately, but until now I have not received any reply from him. So I hope to be provided with some news about my father because I cannot be patient and I have no acquaintance in Baghdad Moise Eliakim Mr. President We have understood that Isaac Eliakim stayed at the New Tigris Hotel for nearly a month and based on our inquiry from the manager of the place, we inquired if he had died there and we also learned that he has a trunk in the mentioned hotel that has not been opened until now, and in exchange for that the hotel management is asking him for the sum of ⟦...⟧ Dinars 7/5/935
2220 19 May 935 ⟦illegible⟧ To the Honorable Director of Meir Elias Hospital After greetings This presidency received a letter from a person named Monz Eliakim, a resident of Thessaloniki (Turkey) In which he requests an inquiry about his father, Isaac Eliakim, who traveled via Baghdad and stayed at the New Tigris Hotel, as he is anxious due to the interruption of communication with him After investigation, it appeared that he had fallen ill, entered the hospital, and passed away on 11/23/34 We therefore request that you inform us in detail about the incident of his death, what he left behind, and what he bequeathed - with respect Sassoon Head of the Community
MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL Meir Elias Hospital Meir Elias Hospital BAGHDAD Baghdad Baghdad Telephone No. - 6 Telephone Number: 6 ⟦line⟧ No. / Number: Date / Date: 25 / 5 / 26 His Excellency, the Presidency of the Respected Israelite Community Baghdad Greetings and respect In response to your letter No. 222 dated 25 / 5 / 26 Isaac Eliyahu was afflicted with pleurisy and recovered from it, then he was afflicted with empyema, i.e. "surgery in the lungs" and he passed away in the hospital affected by this last illness after a surgery was performed on him and he left the items listed below: Leather wallet | Clothes: Passport | One undergarment with one worn-out sock Copper wristwatch | One outer garment with one worn-out pair of trousers Iron spectacles | i.e. Small knife | Car, coat, shoes, robe, necktie, jacket Small key | Worn-out trousers, garment, vest, worn-out sock Silver buttons for the robe's sleeves Ordinary buttons for the robe Money: Fils And all these items are kept with us The deceased did not bequeath anything at all Please accept my highest respect Administrative Officer ⟦signature⟧ Duplicate
B"H : Holy Community To the honorable Treasurer of the Community of the Israelite Congregation, may his light shine, in Baghdad A. N. S. I received your letter dated August 6, 1935, regarding the matter of interest for all the days of my stay in the Holy Land, and for which I sent a sum of 50 Pounds Sterling for all the aforementioned time. And after inquiry and investigation, it became known to me in this regard that according to the conduct of the committee management "Bikur Cholim in Baghdad" and after my being for many years in the capacity of "Committee Treasurer" (this committee is separate from the Committee) and I saw several times (between the managers "Ezra and Salach") and after the committee's request I responded to them and lent them a sum of approximately 34 ⟦impressed⟧ and also 2 used items and they are not currently in their original state, and I also have coal remaining with them and not the owner of the table, and I suffered in this toil and weariness regarding this house and I sent to them about five months ago that they should pay their debt (the Community Committee is sending a letter regarding this) and therefore the response was delayed and now it is proper for me to tell you this matter so that you may know everything. And I am the one who waits With great respect and all honor Orchard 1 Trampoline 1 Old wooden table 1 Carpets 2 Wool mattress 1 Oil lamp 1 Simple chairs 2 Simple wooden chair 2 Wall clock 4 Coal sack 1 Old kerosene lamp 1 Sheet 1 Towel 1 Towel 5 Pillow 1 Pillow 1 Pillow 1 Wooden table 1 Sewing machine 2 Washing machine 1 Wooden chair 2 Lamp 1 ⟦illegible⟧ The Hebrew Community Committee in Baghdad
Ministry of Interior Directorate of Public Health Baghdad - Iraq Telegraphic Address: Public Health: Telephone Number: 509 Baghdad: Ref No.: 487 Date: 9 Shawwal Year 1353 14 / 1 / 1935 To the Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad. With reference to your letter No. 2956 dated September 30, 1934. Based on your request and the approval of the Ministry of Interior in its letter No. 566 dated January 12, 1935, we have approved the registration of Dr. Walter Kanfer, the German, specialist in Roentgen rays. He is not entitled to practice his profession except for cases at Meir Elias Hospital that require diagnosis or treatment according to his specialization. Please notify the aforementioned person to submit his medical certificates to this Directorate along with the specialization certificates so that we can complete his registration process in accordance with the Law of Practice of Medicine in Iraq for the year 1925. 44 ⟦signature⟧ Director of Public Health. Copy to the Ministry of Interior with reference to its letter above for information. Copy to the Directorate of General Police for information. Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Private No. 2599 Date 24 / 1 / 935 A. B. ⟦illegible⟧
2169 2 April 935 The issue of the old debt, the budget, and others His Excellency the Chairman of the Hospitals Committee, respected After greetings, Further to our letter No. 2703 dated 12 November 934, We present to you the report submitted to the esteemed General Council by the committee that it formed for the purpose of studying the issues referred to in the report - and remain in peace. Harun Head of the Community 50
Ministry of Interior Directorate of Public Health Baghdad - Iraq Telegraphic Address: Public Health: Telephone Number: 509 Baghdad: Ref No: 2825 Date: 23 Dhu al-Qi'dah / 1353 27 / 2 / 1935 To the Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad. Further to our letter No. 487 dated January 14, 1935 And with reference to the terms of the contract agreed upon between the Jewish Hospitals Committee and Dr. Katz. We have studied the terms set for discussion, audited them, and found them in agreement with the interest of the hospital. Therefore, we confirm our approval of his registration in this General Directorate provided that the approval of this General Directorate is obtained upon the expiration of its term if it is desired to extend the service of the aforementioned doctor. We also approve of his work in Radiology, Radioscopy, and Diathermy according to his specialization, and the treatment of inpatients in the hospital as well as outpatients who visit the Radiology Institute affiliated with Meir Elias Hospital. Furthermore, in order that there be no disparity in fees which would harm the interests of the patients, you may review and be guided by the fee scale established by the government for the Radiology Institute affiliated with the Iraqi Health Service, and apply it to patients who visit the hospital administration. This scale was published as an appendix to the Government Hospitals and Health Institutes Administration Regulation No. (8) of 1933. ⟦line⟧ Director of Public Health. Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Ref No. ⟦illegible⟧ Date ⟦illegible⟧ A. S.
Ministry of Finance General Revenue Directorate Statistics Department Baghdad - 8 Dhu al-Hijjah 353 and 14 March 935 Number - 5548 Subject - Property tax for the house numbered 2 or / 1 To the Head of the Jewish Community Baghdad Reference to your petition numbered 3054 and dated 26 / 12 / 934 1- We have learned from the letter of the Baghdad Property Tax Officer numbered 44 and dated 27 / 2 / 35 that the house numbered 2 / 1 or, located in the Al-Sur neighborhood, was prepared for rent, and based on your petition regarding its integration into Meir Elias Hospital, the committee inspected it and confirmed that it has not been integrated and remains in its previous state; therefore, there is no justification for exempting it from tax. As for the vacancy, you may submit a petition regarding its vacancy to the Tax Officer so that he can take the necessary action regarding it; Director General of Revenue True copy 21 / 4 / 35 ⟦signature⟧ The Clerk
Ministry of Finance General Revenue Directorate Statistics Department Baghdad on 8 Dhu al-Hijjah / 1353 AH 14 March / 1935 AD Number 5548 Subject: Property tax for house numbered 2 A / 1. To: Head of the Jewish Community Baghdad Reference to your petition numbered 3054 and dated 26 / 12 / 1934 -1- We learned from the letter of the Baghdad Property Tax Officer numbered 44 and dated 27 / 2 / 1935 that the house numbered 2/1 A and located in the Al-Sour neighborhood was intended for rent, and based on your petition regarding its integration into Meir Elias Hospital, the committee inspected it and confirmed that it was not integrated and remains in its previous state. Therefore, there is nothing justifying its exemption from tax. As for the vacancy, you may submit a petition regarding its vacancy to the Tax Officer so that he can take the necessary action regarding it. General Revenue Director 2612 14 / 3 / 935 Answer - link the previous with the other papers ⟦Loz⟧ K.
Chairman of the Hospitals Committee 2192 2 Safar 1354 and 5 May 1935 His Excellency the Director of the General Land Registry, Respected After greetings, I wish to inform your Excellency that the honorable notable Ibrahim Effendi Nahum is the Chairman of the Jewish Hospitals Committee in Baghdad - and may you remain in respect. Sassoon Head of the Community
JEWISH HOSPITALS COMMITTEE BAGHDAD Established, 1884 Telephone No. : 6 ⟦line⟧ Meir Elias Hospital Rimah Khedouri Eyes Hospital Refouah Pharmacy. Society of the Founders of the Hospital Baghdad ⟦line⟧ Jewish Hospitals Committee Baghdad Established in the year 1884 Telephone number: 6 ⟦line⟧ Meir Elias Hospital Rimah Khedouri Eye Hospital Dar al-Shifa Pharmacy No. / Number: Date / Date: 24 June 1935 Mr. D. Sassoon , Mutawalli Waqf Revka Nouriel , Baghdad . Sir , Referring to your letter of 31.5.35 , I have the honor to bring to your knowledge that the Committee of Jewish Hospitals has delegated Messrs. Sassoon Cohen and D. Muallim Saleh for the examination of the accounts of said Waqf . Please accept , Sir , my best regards Nahum President Copy to the Consistory , for information .
The National School Baghdad Number: Private Date: 5 July 925 Subject Sir, His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, the respected Head of the Jewish Community Greetings and respect, We present to your Eminence the bearer, Nassim Salman, one of our relatives who has a sick wife he wishes to admit to Meir Elias Hospital. Since he is in very poor circumstances, we have come to petition your Eminence to kindly mediate with the hospital administration so that they may accept her at half the fee. What we know of your Eminence's mercy and compassion encourages us to make this petition. May you remain a help to the weak and the afflicted. Please accept, Your Eminence, the assurance of our highest respect. Sincerely, ⟦Heskel⟧ ⟦The National School⟧
2242 6 June 935 ⟦illegible⟧ His Excellency the Mayor of the Capital, the Respected ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ After greetings, The Israeli Hospitals Committee in Baghdad has decided to construct two houses in the corner of the Meir Elias Hospital garden, adjacent to the house recently built, with only one floor according to the attached design. We request Your Excellency to kindly grant us the necessary permit for that. ⟦illegible⟧ On behalf of The Head of the Community 50
2245 10 June 935 His Excellency the Mayor of the Capital, the Respected I request your Excellency to kindly take the necessary legal measures to transfer ownership of the surplus of the Al-Sawafi road adjacent to the Meir Elias Hospital to the Jewish Community in Baghdad to annex it to the aforementioned hospital and to dispatch a committee to estimate the value of the said surplus; ⟦illegible⟧ Head of the Community