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Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad.
Date: 15/1/1946
To, Dr. S. Tokar,
Baghdad.
Sub. Amendment of the contract passed with
the Jewish Hospitals Committee.
Dear Dr. Tokar,
This is to confirm our agreement for the amendment of the
contract dated the 1.7.1940 passed between you and the Jewish Hospitals
Committee governing your conditions of service in the Meir Elias Hospital,
Baghdad.
You will be entitled notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
the Contract referred ⟦to⟧ above to open a private clinic outside the Hospital to
be run by you daily in the afternoons subject to the following conditions:-
1- The daily working hours in the Hospital shall be six: five hours
and a half in the morning and half an hour in the evening provided that
the daily work at the Hospital will be taken care of notwithstanding the
said time limit. The time at which the daily working hours shall begin
and end shall be fixed from time to time by the Directorate of the Hospital.
2- You will not be entitled to pay medical visits to outside patients
during the working hours in the morning.
3- You will always be available at the Hospital for emergency or
when needed at any time.
4- The private clinic shall always be outside the Hospital compound,
which include the house now occupied by you, and should under no
circumstances be used as private nursing home for in-patients.
5- In consideration of the alteration of your conditions of service
referred to in this letter the Jewish Hospitals Committee shall be entitled
to deduct from the amounts due to be paid to you under the Contract
referred to above whether by way of salary, fees etc... the sum of I.D. one
hundred and fifty per annum. The latter amount shall be deducted monthly
at the rates of I.D. twelve and a half.
6- The alteration of the conditions of the Contract referred to
above as stated in this letter shall come into force from 9/12/1945.
It is being understood that all the other conditions of the Contract under
reference, in so far as they have not been amended by the provisions of
this letter, shall remain in force.
Please confirm your agreement to the contents of this letter in
writing.
Yours faithfully,
Meir M. Dingo
President,
Jewish Hospitals Committee,
Baghdad.
I beg to confirm my agreement to the conditions stated in
this letter.
Yours faithfully,
⟦S. Tokar⟧
Dr. S. Tokar,
Meir Elias Hospital,
Baghdad.
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Second Copy
Agreement is hereby made between Meir Moshi Dangoor in
his capacity as President of the Jewish Hospitals Committee
of Baghdad hereinafter called the First Party and Doctor Sofia
Tokar hereinafter called the Second Party whereby it has been
mutually agreed as follows:-
In this agreement the term "Hospital" means the Meir
Elias Hospital and the term "salary" means the monthly fixed
pay as prescribed in section 2 of this agreement.
(8)
1. The First Party undertakes to employ the Second Party as
a physician for women and children diseases in the Hospital for a
period of one year commencing on the first day of July 1940 and
ending on the last day of June 1941 . The First Party shall be
entitled notwithstanding anything herein to engage the services
of other doctors in the Hospital for children or for women
diseases or for both, whether in respect of out-patients or the
patients lying at the Hospital, on the terms and conditions he may
deem convenient in all respect at his absolute discretion.
2. The First Party undertakes to pay the Second Party a
fixed monthly salary of twenty eight Iraq Dinars during the whole
period of this Agreement payable at the end of every month.
3. The First Party undertakes to provide the Second Party
with free house at the hospital during the whole period of this
Agreement.
4. The First Party undertakes to pay to the Second Party
during the whole period of this Agreement at the end of every
week a percentage of the total fees collected by the Hospital
in connection with the medical works performed by the Second
Party at the Hospital as shown in sub-paras (a) and (b) herein-
below. The First Party further undertakes to pay to the Second
Party fixed fees in connection with the medical works to be
performed by the Second Party as shown in sub-para (c) herein-
after. It is being agreed upon that all such medical fees shall
be collected from the patients by the Hospital only and that
Dr. Sofia Tokar Meir
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and that the Second Party shall not be entitled to collect
herself direct any fees for any medical work performed by her
within the Hospital. All such fees in so far as paras (a) and
(b) herein are concerned shall be fixed by the First Party from
time to time in consultation with the Second Party.
(a) fifty per cent of the total fees collected by the
Hospital from the paying out-patients who come to
the Hospital daily for examination by the Second
Party.
(b) twenty per cent of the total fees collected by the
Hospital for curetage made in the Hospital by the
Second Party to the paying patients.
(c) Five hundred fils for each accouchement carried out
at the Hospital in respect of first class paying
patients and two hundred and fity fils in respect of
second class paying patients. It is being understood
that these fixed fees shall cover all medical works
carried out by the Second Party in connection with
such accouchements or inherent thereto.
Number of obstetric cases granted to ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ for the first class - ⟦...⟧ one dinar for the first
class
⟦...⟧ - 500 fils for the second class
⟦...⟧ 1/12/934
⟦...⟧
It is also being agreed upon that the
Second Party shall be personally present in all such
accouchements.
5. The First Party undertakes to grant to the Second
Party one month leave on full salary to be taken at the end of
this contract i.e. the Second Party undertakes to work in the
Hospital for a period of eleven months consecutively and to take
her
<del>this</del> leave at the end of that period.
6. The Second Party shall be entitled in case of illness
to sick leave for a period not exceeding one month on full
salary during the whole period of this agreement.
7. The Second Party undertakes to examine and treat free
of charge all the patients lying in the wards of women and
children diseases, whether paying or non-paying patients.
Dr. Sofia Tokar
Mey
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8. The Second Party undertakes to examine, free of
charge, all the poor outpatients of the Jewish Community who
come to the Hospital daily for medical examination.
9. The Second Party is entitled to pay medical visits
outside the Hospital within the municipal limits of Baghdad on
condition that the Hospital's ordinary work shall not suffer
or be affected in any way. All fees collected by the Second
Party from such visits remain in full with <del>him</del> her and she is
not obliged to give any account about them to the First Party.
The Second Party may, with the previous agreement of the First
Party, pay medical visits to patients outside the municipal
limits of Baghdad. The fees to be collected by the Second Party
for such visits shall be agreed upon between the two contracting
parties and shall be divided between them equally.
10. The Second Party undertakes not to open a private
clinic or to work in any other private clinic outside the
Hospital. The Second Party also undertakes not to treat
patients whether paying or poor in her private house.
11. The Second Party undertakes to comply with all
general administrative orders or instructions issued to the
medical staff by the First Party or by any person representing
him from time to time for the proper management of the
Hospital.
12. After the normal expiry of this agreement and if
not renewed the First Party undertakes to provide the Second
Party with a Second Class through passage from Baghdad to
Grodno in Poland on condition that the Second Party shall
leave the country within two months from the date of the
expiry of the contract.
13. The First Party shall have the right to cancel
this agreement without prior notice being given to the Second
Party and without any compensation whatsoever if the Second
Party becomes ill for a consecutive period of three months
provided that the First Party shall pay the Second Party during
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Dr. ⟦Sofia⟧ Tokar
⟦Meir⟧
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the period of illness her salary for the period of the sick of
and ordinary leaves referred/in section 5 and 6 of this
Agreement only. It is being understood that the free passage
to which the Second Party is entitled under section 12 hereabove
shall be paid to her if she leaves the country within two months
of her recovery.
14. This Agreement shall be considered to have
automatically terminated and to have become null and void
without prior notice being given by either Party to the other
and without any compensation whatsoever if the Second Party
shall cease or shall be unable to work at the Hospital for
reasons beyond her control, other than illness, for a period
exceeding two months. The Second Party shall not be entitled to
receive any salary during that period but she shall be entitled
to her ordinary leave under section 5 hereabove, in proportion
to the period of her actual services at the Hospital.
15. If either of the contracting Parties does not
wish to renew this Agreement on its normal expiry, they should
notify each other in writing subject to a minimum of two months
before the expiry of this Agreement. In case no such notice whatso
ever will be given by either Party this Agreement will hold
good for an indefinite period provided that either Party shall
have the right of its termination at any time he desires after
its normal expiry by giving two months notice in writing.
16. If the Second Party fails to comply with the
terms of this Agreement or refuses to work without a legal
reason with the intention to annul this agreement she shall be
liable to pay a compensation of two hundred Iraq Dinars to the
First Party, but if the failure is on the part of the First
Party, the latter is bound also to pay to the Second Party an
amount of two hundred Iraq Dinars as compensation.
17. As both the contracting parties have willingly
come to this agreement under the above mentioned terms it was
duly signed by both parties, so that each may have a copy of
Dr. Sofia Tokar ⟦Meir⟧
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same after its confirmation by the Jewish Lay Council in
accordance with Article nineteen of this Committee's Statute.
Made at Baghdad the
First Party Second Party
Meir M. ⟦Dungoor⟧
Dr. Sofia Tokar
IRAQ
75 fils
POSTAGE
⟦Kingdom of Iraq⟧
⟦75 fils⟧
Deserves certification
941
Its contents are certified
President of the Lay Council
⟦E. S. Lanyado⟧
14. ⟦...⟧ automatically terminates ⟦...⟧ without prior notice being ⟦...⟧ by either ⟦...⟧ and without any compensation whatsoever if the ⟦...⟧ shall cease or shall be unable to work at the Hospital ⟦...⟧ reasons beyond her ⟦...⟧ than illness, for a period ⟦...⟧ months. The Second Party shall not be entitled to ⟦...⟧ but she shall be entitled ⟦...⟧ under section 5 hereabove, in proportion ⟦...⟧ actual services at the Hospital.
15. If either of the contracting Parties does not wish to renew this Agreement on its normal expiry, they should notify each other in writing subject to a minimum of two months before the expiry of this Agreement. In case no such notice whatsoever will be given by either Party this Agreement will hold good for an indefinite period provided that either Party shall have the right of its termination at any time he desires after its normal expiry by giving two months notice in writing.
16. If the Second Party fails to comply with the terms of this Agreement or refuses to work without a legal reason with the intention to annul this agreement she shall be liable to pay a compensation of two hundred Iraq Dinars to the First Party, but if the failure is on the part of the First Party, the latter is bound also to pay to the Second Party a sum of two hundred Iraq Dinars as compensation.
17. ⟦...⟧ As both the contracting parties have ⟦...⟧ this Agreement under the above mentioned terms, it ⟦...⟧ by both parties, so that each may have a copy of.
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⟦illegible⟧ by the Jewish ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ with ⟦illegible⟧ of this Committee's
Made at Baghdad the
First Party Second Party
30.8.46
Dear Anwar Effendi,
Unfortunately it is impossible
for me to return on the 4th
of September as the earliest
date on which I could reserve
a place is the 14th Sept. Saturday
and I will be on duty at the
Hospital on Sunday the 15th Sept.
I hope that this enforced delay
will cause no inconvenience.
I hope the end of the summer
has not been to trying and
that you are in good health.
Best wishes
yours sincerely
⟦S Tokar⟧
Best regards to
everybody in the Hospital.
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Jewish Hospitals' Administration Jewish Hospitals' Administration
MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL Meir Elias Hospital
Baghdad Baghdad
TELEPHONE No. { 3006 / 7480 } BAGHDAD Telephone No. { 3006 / 7480 } Baghdad
No. / Number: 10 / 407
Date / Date: 2 / 8 / 1946
Directorate of Public Health
Baghdad
We wish to inform you that Dr. Balian, Director of Meir Elias Hospital, left
Iraq on regular leave as of 1 / 8 / 46 and that Dr. Gurji
Rabie is performing his duties throughout the period of his absence. Also, Dr. Tokar is taking
regular leave spent outside Iraq starting from Saturday, corresponding to
3 / 8 / 46, and Dr. Sustman will perform her duties throughout the period of her absence.
⟦signature⟧
Director of the Jewish Hospitals' Administration
in Baghdad
She returned to resume her duties
on 20 / 9 / 46
meaning she took regular leave
for a period of (46) days
⟦signature⟧
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Service Summary Form
Special for employees and staff of health institutions affiliated
to the Jewish Hospitals Committee in Baghdad
Date 1/11/1945
Salary and Promotions
Total | Total Salary (Nominal Salary | Cost of Living Allowance) | Increases (Nominal Salary | Cost of Living Allowance) | Date and Remarks
5 000 | 5 000 | | Salary upon appointment on 15/11/22 with food and housing
10 000 | 5 000 | | Salary increase effective from 1/4/24
28 000 | 18 000 | | Adjustment of salary and contract terms to ⟦18⟧ Dinars without food effective from 15/5/1926
25 000 | 7 000 | | Salary increase effective from 1/1/1945 per the committee's decision on 12/12/1944
Rewards | Penalties
Date | Date
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Employee Biography Form
The Israelite Community in Baghdad
Number - Z / /: 19
Date of Organization -: 11 / 10 / 1947
Employee Name:: Dr. Sophia Tokar
Surname:: Tokar
Date and Place of Birth:: 6 / 12 / 1902 Grodno - Poland
Nationality:: Polish
Full Address: Meir Elias Hospital
Employee Signature :-:
Single or Married:: Married
Date of Marriage: 1 / 9 / 1935 AD
Educational Attainment :: Graduate of the University of Berlin
Certificates Held :: Diploma from the University of Berlin
Languages Proficient In :: Polish, French, English, Russian, German, and a little Arabic
Previous Service :: Berlin Charité University Hospital, Grodno civil Hospital
General Remarks :-
A - The Meir Elias Hospital has special shares and revenues from the examinations she conducts for others in the hospital.
Photography
⟦illegible stamp⟧
Ordinary Leaves
Number of Days | Entitled | Number of Days | Granted
| From | To | | From | To
Sick Leaves
Number of Days | Entitled | Number of Days | Granted
| From | To | | From | To
Notes: The government also has certain shares and percentages of workers' wages, revenues, and taxes that it deducts
according to the signed contract
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Leaves
Leave Duration | Leave Date | Remarks
Month | Day | From | To |
Ordinary
Page (3)
| 21 | 9/18 | ⟦945/10/18⟧ |
| 46 | 8/4 | 946/9/19 |
| 25 | 47/7/29 | 947/8/22 | According to Administrative Order No. (9998) dated 47/7/31
| 5 | 47/10/3 | 47/10/7 | " " " (10645) " " 47/10/25
| 2 | 49/8/9 | 49/8/10 | " " " (892) " " 49/8/20
Sick
| 3 | 945/6/6 | 945/6/8 |
| 21 | 945/10/18 | 945/11/18 |
| 3 | 947/6/20 | 947/6/22 | According to Administrative Order No. (8085) dated 47/6/27
| 20 | 47/9/3 | 947/10/2 | " " " (10644) " " 47/10/25
| 2 | 49/12/1 | 49/12/2 | " " " (1272) " " 49/12/12
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19.12.1945
To the Meir Elias
Hospital's Committee
Dear Sirs,
I acknowledge receipt of
your letter of the 12th
Dec. 1945, and would remind
you that the Committee
agreed in their letter of
the 3rd Apr. 1945 that I should
open a private clinic subject
to five conditions.
These were accepted in my
letter of the 6th Apr. 1945.
The fixing of a rental for
my house 'as required' in the
fifth condition was under
discussion for some time.
After my proposal on 24th Apr.
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JEWISH HOSPITALS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
Established, 1884
Telephone 3009
7480
—:0:—
Meir Elias Hospital
Rimah Khedouri Eyes Hospital
Refouah Pharmacy
Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Established in 1884
Telephone Number 3009
7480
Meir Elias Hospital
Rimah Khedouri Eye Hospital
Dar Al-Shifa Pharmacy
No. Number: 789
Date Date: 12/Dec./945
To,
Dr. S. Tokar.
Dear Dr. Tokar,
You have verbally informed the Administrative Director of the
hospital that you have opened a private clinic outside the hospital.
This is not in conformity with the clauses of the agreement passed
between us and we consider that it is necessary to amend the conditions
of the contract in order that you may do so. We will therfore be glad
to discuss with you this subject at any time you consider it convenient
so that a new agreement could be excuted between us.
Yours faithfully,
⟦Meir M. Dangoor⟧
President.
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A R. J. D A N O N
DENTIST LICENTIATE in DENTAL SURGERY
of the UNIVERSITY of GENEVA
Beyoğlu İstiklâl Avenue No. 373 Beyoğlu, Rue Istiklal No. 373
BANKA HAN No. 4 BANKA HAN No. 4
Opposite Karlman Passage (Opposite the Karlmann Passage)
License Number 600 Practice Permit No. 600
Telephone: 43387 Telephone: 43387
R E P O R T
I hereby certify
that Mrs. Dr. Sophie Tokar-Lampert suffers
from dental cysts requiring a surgical
intervention (Apical resection)
and whose treatment will last at least
three to four weeks.
Istanbul, September 15, 1945.
⟦Sick leave⟧
⟦A J Danon⟧
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16.10.45
To the Meïr Elias Hospital
Committee
Dear Sirs,
an unforseen complication
in the treatment of my
teeth compels me to
prolong my stay here
for further 3-4 weeks.
Enclosed am sending you
a rapport of my dentist.
am very sorry for the
delay.
Yours sincerely
S Tokar
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Dr. S. TOKAR
Baghdad. 23rd May 1943.
The Director of the Meir Elias Hospital
B a g h d a d.
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of the translation of the letter of the President
of the Meir Elias Hospital Committee dated the 12th instant in answer to ⟦my⟧
letter of the 9th instant.
In reply I beg to point out that in my letter of the 9th instant,
I have given the subject detailed and <del>un</del>exhaustible explanations from the
medical point of view. May I recapitulate the essential points as follows?
My examination of the patient would have only had sense if I
could have accommodated her suitably for confinement and in accordance with
my responsibility as a doctor. As such I only acted in the interests of
the health of the patient in telling her that there was no free place -
a consideration which is practicable in every health institution. Thereto
I would like to add quoting my previous letter: "The woman in question was
standing and talking quietly without any manifestation of pain". Nothing,
therefore, urged my examination.
To the remark of the President that the administration "should
prepare for necessary places", I would like to point out that at this ti⟦me⟧
nobody of the administration is present in the Hospital. Besides, as I ⟦ve⟧
already stated in my last letter, one patient was delivered a night before
in the corridor, a fact which proves that an appropriate place was not
provided for.
Finally I believe that the judgment of examining or admitting a
patient should be left to the discretion of the doctor.
As to the behaviour of midwife Naima, the unfounded and ill-
willed denouncement in this incident speaks for itself and shows that
smooth collaboration is not possible.
I remain, dear Sir,
Yours truly
⟦Dr S Tokar MD⟧
Copy to the Committee of the
Meir Elias Hospital, Baghdad.
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20/5/1942.
Dr. S. Tokar,
Meir Elias Hospital,
Baghdad.
Dear Dr.,
Reference your letter of the 25/3/1942.
In view of the fact that the budget of this current year has already ⟦dy⟧
been drafted without taking into consideration any increase in the fixed
salaries of last year, the committee regrets not beingable at present to
allow any increase in the said salaries.
Hoping to be able at some other time to be of service to you,
I remain,
Yours faithfully, -
Meir M. Dingoor
President.
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Jewish Hospitals' Administration
MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL
Baghdad
TELEPHONE No. Bd { 1480 / 6
Jewish Hospitals' Administration
Meir Elias Hospital
Baghdad
Telephone No. Baghdad { 1480 / 6
No. Number:
Date: 9.8.1942
To the Committee of the
Hospital Meir Elias.
Dear Sirs,
Referring to my conversation
with Mr. Meir Dangoor I beg
to give me one month leave
beginning August the 16th 1942.
Yours sincerely
S Tokar M.D.
The committee decided in its session on
12 / 8 / 942 to grant her the requested leave
⟦illegible⟧
12 / 8
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25. 3. 1942
To the Meir Elias Hospitals
Committee
Dear Sirs,
⟦To be attached to the file⟧
942/5/7
⟦illegible⟧
In view of the general
increase of cost of living
I would like to ask the
Committee to raise my salary
in accordance with it.
Hoping of a favorable
reply I am yours
sincerely
S Tokar M.D.
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Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Established 1884
Telephone No.: 1480
Meir Elias Hospital
Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital
Dar Al-Shifa Pharmacy
Jewish Hospital Founders Society
Baghdad
JEWISH HOSPITALS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
Established, 1884
Telephone No. : 1480
Meir Elias Hospital
Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital
Refouah Pharmacy.
No. ⟦line⟧ Number ⟦line⟧
Date ⟦line⟧ Date 21 March 1940
To the respected Dr. Sophie Tokar
Resident at Meir Elias Hospital in Baghdad
Via
The respected Notary Public of Baghdad
Greetings,
With reference to the twelfth clause of the contract concluded between us dated July 12, 1936
We hereby notify you that we have canceled the contract mentioned above and considered it null and void
And your services at Meir Elias Hospital will terminate after three months from this date in accordance with the provisions
of the aforementioned twelfth clause. Respectfully yours;
Meir D. Nakkour
President of the Jewish Community Hospitals Committee
in Baghdad
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Baghdad, February 17, 1939
The Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Dear Sirs,
We regret to state that in spite of many oral demands
we have not been paid again for almost four months. Therefore
we beg to ask you to pay us immediately the total sum of the
arrears.
Owing to the serious and deplorable events of which the
Committee is well aware we have to insist this time on full pay-
ment without any delay. We have to send to our nearest relations
regular financial supports for their living.
We are sure that the Committee will recognize the full
importance of our request.
Yours faithfully
Signatures
Prof. Rosenow Dr. Tokar Dr. Sostmann Dr. Katz
The original is kept in Dr. Sostmann's portfolio
A copy of this letter was sent by the doctors to several people
among the notables of the community
Copy for filing in Dr. Tokar's portfolio
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MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL
BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE NO. 1480
⟦line⟧
Meir Elias Hospital
Baghdad
Meir Elias Hospital
Baghdad
Telephone No. 1480
⟦line⟧
No. 194
Date: 15 / 9 / 928
SUBJECT: Return of Dr. ⟦Sonia⟧ Tokar
To the Honorable Chairman of the Israeli Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Greetings,
Dr. Tokar returned from her travels on the 14th of this month and resumed her duties
along with her nurse Rahma Daoud on this date. The doctor had traveled on 4 / 8 / 28.
I submit to you herewith the telegram sent by Dr. Tokar regarding her return.
With respect,
⟦signature⟧
Administrative Officer