AI English Translation, Pages 276-300
When we concluded the old contract, you had requested that the financial situation be taken into account
and that we do not consider the monthly salary as a wage for the doctor's ability or for what he deserves ⟦illegible⟧
because the financial situation does not allow for giving a salary larger than this ⟦illegible⟧
The financial situation in the hospital in the following two years has improved ⟦illegible⟧
The cooperation between the doctors and the hospital committee to the extent that they began to conclude
new contracts abroad with salaries according to the doctor's ability, so I request
making adjustments to the old contracts as well in relation to the new ones.
I would like to present to the respected committee the necessary changes in the old contracts:
(1) Increasing my monthly salary to 40 Dinars starting from May 15
(2) Giving me half of the surgery fees without them being counted against my fixed salary
of 40 Dinars per month.
Based on these changes taken, my salary must be paid as usual
during my vacation days as well.
The new contract must include a permit to open an external clinic
in the town, and the hospital's participation in the revenues obtained shall be
under discussion.
Participation in the revenues coming from the external clinic shall not be implemented unless
the committee has approved my proposals regarding the hospital management
in the last session.
Since I wish to take my annual leave, I would like from your Excellency
to send the answer quickly, and in case of non-approval of
my proposals, I will take other measures.
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri, President of the Israelite Community
I have the honor to present to your Excellency a copy of the letter sent to
the Hospital Committee.
Please accept my sincere greetings
Dr. HERBERT SOSTMAN⟦stain⟧
BAGHDAD.
Dr. Herbert Sostmann
Alwaziyah 24/2/1
Baghdad, February 29, 36
To the
President
of the Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Mr. President,
At the conclusion of the old contracts it was understood
that the salaries were not the expression of the qualifications
of these engaged doctors but that it was necessary to take into account
the financial situation of the hospital which did not allow
paying a higher salary. In the meantime and especially in
the last two years the situation of the Hospital has
improved thanks to the good understanding between the Committee and the
doctors so that the Committee was able to take on other
engagements whose salaries were fixed as a countervalue
of the work requested. It goes without saying and it is necessary that
now the old contracts must also be subject to
a revision on this subject.
I therefore take the liberty of submitting to the honorable Committee the
necessary changes to be introduced into my contract
alongside the others which will remain in force as until
now.
I request to increase my fixed salary starting from May 15
to 45 Dinars.
Furthermore, I request you to agree that I will participate in
the fees for private operations at a rate of 50%,
without these amounts being counted against my fixed salary of
£ 45.
In connection with the provisions made in recent times
in the new contract my fixed salary will be paid in full
also during the time of my leave and during the duration
of any illnesses.
His Eminence the Chief Rabbi
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I have the honor of sending you
the ⟦illegible⟧ of a letter by the
hospital committee.
With my most distinguished greetings
Your devoted S. Albert Portman
My contract must contain the permission to open a
clinic in the city. A participation of the hospital
in the resulting revenues is to be discussed.
The right to leave will be settled for me as in the last
new contract.
The discussion of the above is possible only if
the question of the Hospital Management is settled according to
my proposals made before the Committee in the previous
session.
Since I must enjoy my leave, I beg you, Mr.
President, to let me know your decisions until the
8th inst., given that in case of non-acceptance of my
proposals, I would be forced to make other arrangements.
I take the liberty of sending copies of this letter
to H. E. the Grand Rabbi Khedouri Sassoon as President of
Lay Council
and to Mr. Yehouda Zelouf, President of the Jewish
Community of Baghdad, for their information.
Please accept, Mr. President, the very sincere
sentiments
of your devoted
Dr. Herbert ⟦Lattmann⟧
Amanat al-Asima (Capital Secretariat)
Number
Number: 5986
Baghdad: Date: 22 March 1936
Muharram: 2 Muharram 1354
Form
To
The Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Subject - Sale of road surplus
After the Secretariat Council had approved in its decision dated July 2, 1935, in paragraph
34, the sale of the road surplus with an area of 1650 square meters located in front of the hospital
of Meir Elias at a price of 225 fils per square meter, however, after fixing the alignment of the road
on which the mentioned surplus is located in a final manner and conducting the survey and audit, it appeared that
its area is 1744.00 square meters, and accordingly, the Council decided in the twenty-first
paragraph of its session held on March 17, 1936, to collect the value of the excess difference
from you according to the price shown in the previous decision, so please send it to us.
⟦illegible signature⟧
Mayor of the Capital
Copy to -
Land Registry Directorate of Baghdad Province - for information
Headquarters of the Jewish Community
Incoming Number 2847
Date 22 / 3 / 36
F/J
2291
30 March 1936
His Excellency the Chairman of the Hospitals Committee, the Respected
We attach herewith a copy of the letter from the Secretariat of the Capital numbered 5986 and dated 26 March 1936 for your review
of its contents;
⟦signature⟧
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
01 M
Special Form No. 14
Secretariat of the Capital
Baghdad
8296
Baghdad: Date 4 Safar 1355
26 April 936
To " -
Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Subject - Sale of road surplus
We confirm our letter No. 5986 dated 26 March 936 and request the sending of an amount of
21/150 Dinars for the price of the 94 square meters of road surplus located in front of
Meir Elias Hospital, which appeared as an excess between the first area amounting to
1650 and the final area amounting to 1744 square meters, after fixing the alignment of
the road located on the mentioned surplus, so that we can settle the account and instruct
the Baghdad Land Registry Directorate to correct the entry according to the final area shown above.
Mayor of the Capital
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Incoming Number 2895
Date 26/4/1936
A. R
2710
28 April 1936
To the Secretariat of the Capital
Baghdad
Reference to your letter No. 8396 dated 26 April 1936
Enclosed please find the amount of twenty-one dinars and one hundred and fifty fils, the price of 9 square meters
of the road surplus located in front of Meir Elias Hospital; please inform us of its receipt;
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
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Yitzhak N. Ezra
Menashe Cohen
Salum Shimon
Kayif
Ezra Faraj
Mori Faraj
Zekharia Cohen
Warji
Eliyahu
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Yaakov Ezra
Salim Sasson
Menashe Yosef
Kadouri
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Pinhas Ezra
Ezra Pinhas
Avraham
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Yitzhak Aboudi
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Ezra Sasson ⟦illegible⟧
Ezra ⟦illegible⟧
Kadouri Ezra ⟦illegible⟧
David Menachem
Ezra Sasson
Mordechai Ezra
Ezra Sasson Ezra
Menachem Sasson
Ben Sasson
Menachem Sasson
Ezra Sasson
Kadouri
Menachem Ezra
Sasson
Menachem Sasson
Ezra
Kadouri Sasson
Sasson
Ezra
For preservation
His Excellency, the Respected President of the Israelite Community
It is not hidden from your Excellency that the state of the Meir Elias Hospital has today become in a bad state ⟦...⟧ the late
Meir Elias founded this hospital as a mercy for his soul, but he did not know that it would become in it
The hospital is a refuge for the corrupt and the infatuated. In order to verify our words, we ask you to direct the following questions to
the member Meir Effendi Dangoor.
First - Please inform us of the reason for your daily visit to the hospital from 12:00 to 7-8:00 PM in the afternoon.
Second - Have you dispensed with the brokerage work that you used to practice previously?
Third - It has come to our attention that you sleep in the hospital on some nights, so can you tell us the reason for that
and in which room is your sleeping place?
Fourth - They say that you are infatuated with the nurse whom Ezra Shua brought from London for cooking, then he dispensed
with her finally for some reasons, and you employed her in the hospital in the position of a nurse for your lust and to fulfill
your interest, so is this true, I wonder?
Fifth - They also say that your sleeping in the hospital is for the sake of the mentioned nurse and in her room, so if that is true, then it is right
that you pay her salary from your own money and not from the community fund, since you benefit from her more than
the hospital benefits.
Sixth - They also say that there are two other nurses and they also have companions who stay overnight with them in the hospital
at night. So what is your say on that, O member of the hospital? A member must have sufficient information.
So, O His Eminence the President of the Community, I inform you that all this affliction has come from the hospital committee because they lost
their conscience and judged some of the employees who reported these heinous acts that took place before them
and punished them severely. Some of them were expelled, such as Sion Moallem, who served the hospital with diligence and activity for
nearly 15 years; he was expelled because of this case when he informed the committee of it. So how can anyone else
among the employees dare after this to report what he sees in the hospital of heinous acts?
Where is the former director Sassoon Hakham Heskel Yehuda to spread this news because he was not afraid of
anyone? Where is the virtuous Simha, sister of the late Meir Elias? Now she has the right to cry and complain before the Lay
Council to reform the situation. Where is the virtuous Menashi Effendi Saleh, the zealous one, to overturn this committee
and investigate the bad state of the hospital, as he is older than others and has the right to inspect, investigate, and do everything
that he chooses?
What a pity for this bad state that the hospital has finally reached.
A copy of it to the member of the General Council Ezra Effendi Menachem
" " " " " Ibrahim Hayyim Moallem Nassim
" " " " " The lawyer Heskel Effendi Murad
" " " " " Menashi Effendi Saleh
" " " " " Nunu Effendi Malmal
" " " " " Eliyahu Effendi Al-Ani
" " President of the Spiritual Council, Rabbi Benjamin
" " " Lay Council
" " Hospital Committee
" " Khedouri Meir Levi
" " Hayyim Effendi Nathaniel
To the Honorable Chairman of the Hospitals Committee of the Jewish Community
Greetings.
Based on your failure to fulfill the conditions you presented to me during my conversations with you
verbally on multiple occasions, which forced me to submit this resignation, which is final,
and I will be separating from my position at the end of the current month.
22 / 7 / 947
Pharmacist - Shimon Isaac Battat
Shimon Isaac
⟦signature⟧
A copy of it to His Excellency the Honorable Head of Health of the Baghdad District
A copy of it to the Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
" The Honorable President of the Lay Council
Presidency of the Jewish Community:
Number: 2972
Date: 24 / 7 / 947
To the attention of the Honorable Chairman of the Hospitals Committee of the Jewish Community
Greetings,
Based on your failure to fulfill the conditions you presented to me during my conversations with you
verbally on multiple occasions, which forced me to submit this resignation, which is final,
and I will be separating from my position at the end of the current month.
27 / 5 / 947
Pharmacist - Shimon Isaac Battat
Shimon Isaac
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A copy of it to His Excellency the Honorable Director of Health for the Baghdad District
A copy of it to the Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
" Honorable President of the Lay Council
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad:
Number: 2875
Date: 27 / 5 / 947
File Number:
4001
29 October 1936
Directorate of Public Health
Baghdad
Since the Hospitals Committee for the Jewish Community in Baghdad is still considering
expanding the Meir Elias Hospital and completing it as required by the expansion of modern medical sciences
and allocating for each branch of medicine a special independent branch, current circumstances
have prompted a benevolent person to donate the construction of a special wing for some mild infectious
diseases such as Typhoid. This wing has been completed and the necessary scientific
and administrative precautions have been taken for this branch. We hope it will receive your moral support especially for the success of this
new sub-institution. Please accept our highest respect;
⟦Sassoon⟧
Head of the Community
M. M. 1
Ministry of Interior
Directorate of Public Health
Baghdad - Iraq
Telegraphic Address :: Saham
Telephone Number :: 509 Baghdad
Ref No.: ⟦2782⟧
Date: 27 / 8 / 1355
12 / 11 / 1936
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad .
In response to your letter No. 4001 dated 29 / 10 / 1936 in which you inquired about
the possibility of admitting and treating cases of infectious diseases such as typhoid fever in the private wing
of Meir Elias Hospital .
We inform you that the law does not permit private hospitals to admit and treat cases
of infectious diseases. All diseases that must be reported and the epidemic diseases mentioned
in the first section of the annex to the Infectious Diseases Law of 1926 must be treated only
in government isolation hospitals .
The private wing in Meir Elias Hospital will be very useful for admitting and treating cases
of infectious, contagious, and communicable diseases that occur in the general wards and maternity wards in
your hospital, such as cases of puerperal fever in maternity wards, erysipelas in surgical cases,
post-operative sepsis, dysentery occurring as a complication of other diseases, cancer, and the like.
The infectious diseases that must be reported are monitored only by
the hospitals of the Health Service, as is the case in most other countries .
Director of Public Health .
A copy to be sent to the Medical Department of Education with a copy of their letter 4001
⟦signature⟧
A . S
Directorate of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Number: ⟦illegible⟧
Date: ⟦illegible⟧
4128
11/17/936
His Excellency the Chairman of the Hospitals Committee, respected
After greetings and respect
We send herewith a copy of the correspondence that took place between us and the Directorate of Public Health
for your information
on behalf of ⟦Khedhouri⟧
President of the Community
Contents
1 - ⟦Our letter⟧ dated 10/30/936
2 - Copy of the Director of Public Health's reply No. 23782 dated 11/12/936
Directorate of Public Health
Number 23782
Date 12 / 11 / 36
(Copy)
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
In response to your letter No. 4001 dated 29 / 10 / 1936 in which you asked about
the possibility of accepting the treatment of cases of infectious diseases such as typhoid fever in the private wing
of Meir Elias Hospital
We inform you that the law does not permit private hospitals to accept and treat cases
of infectious diseases. All diseases that must be reported and the
epidemic diseases mentioned in the first section of the annex to the Infectious Diseases Law of 1926 must
be treated only in government isolation hospitals.
The private wing of Meir Elias Hospital will be very useful for accepting and treating
infectious, contagious, and communicable cases that occur in the general wards and
maternity wards in your hospital, such as cases of puerperal fever in the maternity wards, erysipelas in
surgical cases, sepsis after operations, dysentery occurring as a complication of other diseases,
cancer, and the like.
Infectious diseases that must be reported are monitored only by
the Health Service hospitals, as is the case in most other countries.
Director of Public Health
True copy
17 / 11 / 1936
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number 4001
Date 29 / 10 / 1936
( Copy )
Directorate of Public Health
Since the Hospitals Committee of the Jewish Community in Baghdad is still considering the expansion
of Meir Elias Hospital and its completion in accordance with the progress of modern medical sciences and the allocation of each ⟦section⟧
branch of the medical branches a special independent wing, current circumstances have prompted one
of the sons of charity to build a special wing for some mild infectious diseases such as Typhoid. This
wing has been completed and the necessary scientific and administrative precautions have been taken for this branch. We hope it receives
your moral support especially for the success of this new sub-institution. Please accept our highest
respect,
Head of the Community
True copy of the original
17 / 11 / 1936
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Department of General Health
To the President of the Israelite Community
Baghdad .
In response to your letter No 4001 dated 10/29/36
by which you requested the possibility of treating
infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, in the
special department of Meir Elias .
We inform you that the law does not allow private
hospitals to treat diseases that must be reported to our depart-
ment, as well as epidemic diseases which are listed in
the first part of the annex of the Law on Infectious Diseases
for the year 1926 must be treated solely in
the Civil Isolation hospital.
The Special Department of the Meir Elias hospital will be of great
utility for treating infectious and epidemic diseases which
manifest in the public wards and the delivery rooms
of your Hospital, such as (childbed) fever and <del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
Scarlet fever in diseases requiring surgery and
infections that occur after operations ⟦illegible⟧ and cancer
Infectious diseases that must be reported to us are
treated solely by the General Health Hospitals, as
is customary in most other countries .
Director of General Health
Tr. by
⟦Mullenach⟧
Copy
⟦line⟧
Department of General Health
To the President of the Jewish Community
Baghdad .
In response to your letter No 4001 dated 20/10/36
by which you requested the possibility of treating
infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, in the special
department of Meir Elias .
We inform you that the law does not allow private
hospitals to treat diseases that must be reported to our depart-
ment, as well as epidemic diseases which are listed in
the first part of the annex to the Law on Infectious Diseases
for the year 1926 must be treated solely in
the Civil Isolation hospital.
The Special department of the Meir Elias hospital will be of great
utility for treating infectious and epidemic diseases which
manifest in the public wards and the delivery rooms
of your Hospital, such as (childbed) fever and
Scarlet fever in cases requiring surgery and
infections that occur after operations and cancer
Infectious diseases that must be reported to us are
treated solely by the General Health Hospitals, as
is customary in most other countries .
Director of General Health
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