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IJA 2062

Budgets, Baghdadi Jewish Community

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This is a comprehensive 1946-1947 budget for organizations of the Baghdadi Jewish Community, including the Jewish schools, hospitals, the Spiritual Council, and the President of the Jewish community. Details include salaries and past financial audits for 1944-1946, with projected versus actual spending. There is also correspondence regarding the collection of financial data.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2062
Item Number
12616
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Report, Financial, Correspondence, Expenses, Employment, Letterhead, Shamash Secondary School, Hakham Sassoon Khedouri, Jewish Schools Committee, Annotation, Ink Stamp, Handwritten, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Printed Text, Menashy Saleh School, Frank Iny School, Teachers, Chart, Budget, Ledger, File Folder, President of the Jewish Community, Rahel Shamoon School, Spiritual Council, Judeo-Arabic, Wataniyah School, Laura Khedouri School for Girls, Typed, Jewish Hospitals Committee, Meir Elias Hospital, Albert David Sasson School, Labor

AI en Translation, Pages 126-150

Page 126

General Balance Sheet for the year 44 / 945 from the first of October 44 to ⟦...⟧
Claims due to the Hospital | Fil Dinars | Claims due from the Hospital | Fil Dinars
Sir Elie Kadoorie | 1383/750 | Estate of the late Raphael Haron Gabbay | 8900/000
Cash on hand | 54/734 | Endowment allocations for Sir Elie Kadoorie | 1000/000
Inventory of hospital stores at the end of September 945 | 5700/027 | Ottoman Bank | 43/409
| 7138/511 | Endowments of Rivka Noarael for the account of the year 45/46 | 325/000
Deficit at the end of September 945 as per details below | 6543/537 | Dates and buckthorn lease for the account of the year 45/46 | 130/000
| 13682/048 | Net remaining liabilities against the hospital |
|  | Liabilities 1736/352 |
|  | Salary liabilities 1648/287 | 3384/639
|  |  | 13682/048
Expenses | Fil Dinars | Revenues | Fil Dinars
Salaries and cost of living including 645 dinars from the Nursing Aid Society | 16004/487 | Physical Council allocations | 3600/000
Subsistence, clothing, fuel, soap, electricity, water, telephone, and publishing | 23191/705 | Bath, dressing, and treatment fees and revenues collected from the poor | 23879/099
Medicines, cotton, gauze, and others | 3763/051 | Doctors' revenues (from operations, examinations, analysis, childbirth, and X-rays) and operating room revenues | 7615/476
Garden expenses | 416/209 | External endowment revenues | 160/218
Renovations (various repairs, labor and carpentry wages with tools, electrical repairs and pipes) | 3341/951 | Ketubot revenues, Zakat, and donations | 4452/531
Property expenses | 427/356 | Hospital share of Rivka Noarael property revenues | 1719/934
| 46144/659 | Roses and myrtle revenues | 300/000
|  | Property rental revenues | 1785/606
|  | Dates and buckthorn lease revenues | 130/000
|  | Revenues from the Nursing Aid Society for salaries of nurses and servants in the free maternity ward | 645/000
| 46144/659 |  | 44387/844
Remee Kadoorie Hospital expenses | 3369/931 | Remee Kadoorie Hospital revenues | 2195/094
Dar al-Shifa Dispensary expenses | 3427/881 | Dar al-Shifa Dispensary revenues | 481/957
| 51942/471 |  | 46964/895
Deduct total revenues | 46964/895 |  |
| 4977/576 |  |
Addition of the deficit realized until the end of September 1944 | 1565/961 |  |
| 6543/537 |  |

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Expenses for the year 44 - 45 | Actual for the year 44 - 45 |
Fils Dinar | Fils Dinar |
32800/000 | 31494/575 | Carried forward
4000/000 | 4091/250 | Half of the Al-Kathbut revenues
600/000 | 393/134 | Donations
70/000 | 69/147 | Zakat
180/000 | 160/218 | External endowments
1350/000 | 1719/934 | The hospital's share of the property revenues of the Rifqa Nuriel endowments
2300/000 | 1785/606 | Property revenues
300/000 | 300/000 | Guarantee of rose and jasmine
120/000 | 130/000 | Guarantee of dates and buckthorn
650/000 | 645/000 | From the Sick Relief Association for the salaries of nurses and servants for the free maternity ward
42370/000 | 40687/864 |
3000/000 | 3100/000 | Allocations of the Lay Council
1500/000 | 1500/000 | Extraordinary aid from the Lay Council for the high cost of living for all hospitals
46870/000 | 45287/864 |

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Expenses for the year 44 - 45 | Realized for the year 44 - 45 | (Rima Khadouri Hospital)
Fils Dinar | Fils Dinar |
| 1141/370 | Hospital revenues from examination and operation fees
| 456/548 | Original amount received with the doctors' share
| ⟦line⟧ | Deducting doctors' share
950/000 | 684/822 | Treatment fees
1200/000 | 819/576 | Accommodation fees
220/000 | 333/040 | Miscellaneous revenues
550/000 | 457/656 |
2920/000 | 2195/094 |
| (Dar al-Shifa Dispensary) |
500/000 | 481/957 | Revenues from tickets, treatments, and ⟦...⟧ dressing etc.
| (Total Revenues) |
45920/000 | 44387/844 | Meir Elias Hospital revenues
2920/000 | 2195/094 | Rima Khadouri Hospital revenues
500/000 | 481/957 | Dar al-Shifa Dispensary revenues
49340/000 | 46964/895 |
| (Total Expenses) |
45869/000 | 46144/659 | Meir Elias Hospital expenses
3727/000 | 3369/931 | Rima Khadouri Hospital expenses
3437/000 | 2427/881 | Dar al-Shifa Dispensary
53033/000 | 51942/471 |

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Expenses | Actual for the year 45-46 | Approved for the year 45-46
(Meir Elias Hospital) | Fils/Dinar | Fils/Dinar
Salaries and wages in kind | 16004/487 | 16614/000
Subsistence |  |
Expenditure for the previous year's evaluation amounting to 791/030 Dinars | 17614/969 |
Deducting what is in the warehouse at the end of September 45 | 652/061 |
Total | 16962/908 | 16000/000
Medicines and bandages |  |
Expenditure for the previous year's evaluation amounting to 337/050 Dinars | 793/007 |
Deducting what is in the warehouse at the end of September 45 | 56/880 |
Total | 736/127 | 750/000
Fuel | 2470/087 | <del>2236/000</del>
Expenditure for the previous year's evaluation amounting to 201/350 Dinars | 1284/741 |
Deducting what is in the warehouse at the end of September 45 | 127/480 |
Total | 1157/261 | 950/000
Equipment | 390/180 | 450/000
Soap |  |
Expenditure for the previous year's evaluation amounting to 116/600 Dinars | 629/440 |
Deducting what is in the warehouse at the end of September 45 | 12/400 |
Total | 617/040 | 450/000
Electricity fees | 616/468 | 480/000
Water fees | 129/564 | 125/000
Telephones | 33/315 | 35/000
Total | 22543/315 | 25815/000
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Expenses continued (Meir Elias Hospital)
Brought forward | 36586/215 | 35819/000
Telephone fees | 196/674 | 150/000
Insurance | 87/307 | 150/000
⟦...⟧ difference | 605/534 | ⟦...⟧/000
| 139/371 |
Stationery | 466/653 | 261/900
| ⟦27/449⟧ |
| 370/265 |
Miscellaneous and petty expenses with kitchen supplies | 1434/788 | 1100/000
Expenses with kitchen supplies for the last year amounting to 3/442 |  |
Infectious and Physic Acid | 161/110 | 500/000
| 23/730 |
Expenses with supplies from last year amounting to 61/800 |  |
Deducting what is in the store at the end of September 945 |  |
Medicines, cotton, cozumel, bandages, and gauze | 7387/318 | 5500/000
| 7181/213 |
Expenses with supplies from last year amounting to 859/833 |  |
Deducting what is in the store at the end of September 945 |  |
⟦...⟧ requirements | 521/457 | 600/000
| 403/300 |
Expenses with supplies from last year amounting to 324/860 |  |
Deducting what is in the store until the end of September 945 |  |
Orchard expenses (worker wages, knife repairs, etc.) | 416/200 | 200/000
| 169/157 |
| 43375/453 | 43919/000
Expenses with last year's supplies amounting to 171/850 Dinars
Deducting what is in the store at the end of September 945

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Accounting Continuation (Mar Elias Hospital)
Approved for the year 44-45 | Realized for the year 45-46 | Statement
Dinar Fils | Dinar Fils | Previous balance
43815/000 | 43375/452 | (Renovations, tools and furniture with labor and builders' wages)
| 1712/909 | The expenditure with the valuation of last year amounting to 26/000 dinars
900/000 | 1283/409 | Deducting stock in inventory until September 945
300/000 | 280/500 | Tools and repairs for pipes
|  | Tools and repairs for electricity
| 414/537 | Actually spent
450/000 | 378/537 | Deducting stock in inventory until the end of September 945
400/000 | 422/356 | Consumption tax with travel bills for guides and others
45865/000 | 46144/259 |

⟦line⟧
(Audit Committee Letter) No. ⟦illegible⟧
1000/51853 | 1516/3853 | Amount ⟦line⟧ |
000/001 | 373/291 | Shortfall in balance |
000/001 | 706/78 | Due to the account |
|  | ⟦line⟧ |
|  | 379/503 | 171/058 thousand liras for the remaining balance due to accounts and schools except |
|  | 176/561 | 539 they wanted to register in school accounts under the name - Mir |
| 253/423 | ⟦line⟧ |
000/000 | 536/076 | School records |
000/001 | 887/3631 | 36/6 thousand liras for the remaining balance due to schools in the community accounts |
|  | under the name of Al-Rawdah School |
|  | 012/121 | 12/812 thousand liras for the remaining balance due to schools except |
000/000 | 096/761 | 067/76 | 539 they wanted to register in school accounts under the name - Mir |
|  | ⟦line⟧ |
|  | Amounts due to schools at the date of closing their records |
|  | 616/1837 | 358/6865 thousand liras for the remaining balance due to schools except |
000/000 | 358/6356 | 816/7803 | 539 they wanted to register in school accounts under the name - Mir |
|  | ⟦line⟧ |
|  | School record 1307 |
|  | 253/675 | 830/136 thousand liras for the remaining balance due to schools except |
| 751/031 | 006/603 | 539 they wanted to register in school accounts under the name - Mir |
| 206/314 | ⟦line⟧ |
000/000 | 653/5773 | (This amount is distributed to schools according to the entitlement ratios) |
000/51853 |  | Total |

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Expenses (Rima Kadoorie Hospital) | Actual for Year 44 - 45 Fils Dinar | Approved for Year 44 - 45 Fils Dinar
Salaries for all employees | 2607/735 | 2652/000
Medicines, cotton, surgical instruments, and lighting | 376/704 |
Expenditure for last year's adjustment amounting to 450/800 Dinars | 45/000 |
According to stock in Rima Kadoorie Hospital stores until end of September 945 |  | 600/000
Fuel | 31/030 | 30/000
Electricity, security, and telephone fees | 843/811 | 150/000
Stationery | 718/055 | 125/000
Furniture and clothing | 117/142 | 50/000
Miscellaneous | 124/675 | 120/000
| 3369/931 | 3727/000
(Dar Al-Shifa Dispensary) |  |
Salaries for all employees | 1481/731 | 1407/000
Medicines, cotton, and lighting | 802/690 |
Actual expenditure | 80/097 |
According to stock in Dar Al-Shifa Dispensary until end of September 45 |  | 800/000
Rent | 80/000 | 80/000
Lighting (Electricity, water, security, and telephone) | 143/567 | 150/000
| 2437/821 | 2437/000
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The Jewish Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2562
Date 1 May 946
2
His Excellency the Chairman of the Jewish Hospitals Committee, Respected
Baghdad
After greetings.
Reference to your letter numbered 272 and dated 3/22/946 with the hospital budget attached
for the year 46/947
The Lay Council considered your above-mentioned letter at its meeting held on
4/29/946 and decided after deliberation:-
1 - Allocation of an amount of two thousand dinars (2000) for the annual grant given by the Council to all hospitals
2 - Allocation of an amount of one thousand five hundred dinars (1500) for the grant given by the Council to all hospitals
as an extraordinary allowance for the high cost of living
As for addressing the accumulated deficit and the deficit occurring at the end of this year, it cannot
be remedied from the regular budget, but rather donations can be collected for this purpose or another method found
The Council will hold a meeting at the earliest opportunity with your respected committee to deliberate on this matter.
⟦illegible⟧
The President
Copy to -
Accountant of the Lay Council for information

Page 136

Jewish Hospitals' Administration / MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL / Baghdad / TELEPHONE No. 3006 / 7480 BAGHDAD:
Administration of Israeli Hospitals / Meir Elias Hospital / Baghdad / Telephone No. 3006 / 7480 Baghdad:
No. / Number: 242
Date / Date: 12 / 5 / 946
His Excellency, the President of the Respected Lay Council
After greetings,
With reference to your letter numbered 2562 and dated 2 / 5 / 946
We kindly request permission for the members of our committee to meet your esteemed council at its first meeting
of the current week to deliberate regarding the hospitals' allocations, in view of
the importance of the subject.
Please accept the highest respect.
⟦illegible⟧
The President

Page 137

Jewish Schools Committee in Baghdad
JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
Number: 217 / 1 / 28
Date: 28 / 3 / 946
Subject: Budgets
⟦The Lay Council⟧
⟦Incoming⟧
Number 59
Date 7 / 4 / 1946
His Excellency the President of the Honorable Lay Council
We submit herewith the budget books of the schools for the year 46 / 947 starting on the first of April 946 as organized by
our committee for your kind approval, with the request to note the following: -
1 - The increments decided by this committee were limited to those eligible who did not receive any promotion last
year, and it refused to grant increases to those who received a promotion last year even if they were among the eligible,
this is to ensure economy.
2 - The committee found it very necessary to improve the conditions of those with small salaries, so it decided: -
a - To adjust the high cost of living allowances paid to teachers by deleting the last grade and considering the fourth grade
(which is four dinars for those who receive less than 15 to 10 dinars) inclusive of all employees who
receive less than fifteen dinars per month; thus, the cost of living allowance paid to them will be four
dinars instead of three and a half per month starting from the first of April 946.
b - To adjust the additional high cost of living allowances and make them one and a quarter dinars per month for all employees regardless
of the amount of their salaries, starting from the first of April 946.
c - To add one dinar to the high cost of living allowances paid to servants, so it will be two dinars instead of one dinar
per month starting from the first of April 946.
The impact of these adjustments in the cost of living allowances on the total allowances paid by the Community Fund
to the schools did not exceed one thousand dinars, considering that the total allowances required for the schools under these budgets
is 10/000 dinars compared to 9/000 dinars for last year as follows: -
| Allowances in Dinars | Total Budget in Dinars
Al-Ahliya Secondary | ... | 4500
Shamash | ... | 8375
Albert Sassoon | 750 | 7730
Laura Kadoorie | ... | 9596
Girls' Intermediate | 700 | 1925
Frank Iny | 500 | 4500
Shimon | 1100 | 3650
40276

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⟦illegible⟧
| Total Budget | Allocations
| Dinar | Dinar
National | ⟦4027⟧ 3688 | ⟦4000⟧ 4500
Masouda Salman | 3000 | 1050
Nouraiel | 2450 | 500
Nurum | 2465 | 500
Munshi Saleh | 5600 | 4850
| 57473 | 9400
Schools Committee | 600 | 600
| 58073 | 10000
⟦illegible⟧
⟦stamp⟧
President
Attachments: (12) Estimated budgets

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The Israeli Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 7559
Date 1 May 1946
His Excellency, President of the Schools Committee, the respected
Baghdad
After greetings,
Reference to your letter numbered J/1/217 dated 3/4/1946, with the school budgets for the year 46/1947 attached,
The Council has considered your above-mentioned letter in its meeting held on 29/4/1946
And decided after deliberation:
1 - To accept your committee's proposal to adjust the cost-of-living allowances and additional high-cost-of-living allowances for the employees
and servants belonging to your committee as stated in your aforementioned letter.
2 - To approve reporting the total allowances of the Lay Council for schools (except schools) for this
year as ten thousand dinars (15000).
3 - To approve your total estimated budget for the year 46/1947 amounting to (58073) fifty-
eight thousand and seventy-three dinars.
⟦illegible⟧
The President
5/1
Copy to -
Accountant of the Lay Council for information.