The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-06
PHYSICIANS AND NURSES PRODUCE
 GREAT RESULTS
Unit Dispatched to Holy Land By Hadassah Opens Hospi- tals and Schools.

What the American Zionist Medical Unit has accomplished during the first year of it's operations in Pales- tine is set forth succinctly in a recent article in the Palestine daily, 'Hado-. shoth Ha-aretz," by Dr. I. N. Rubi- now, head of the body of nearly 50 physicians and nurses dispatched over a year ago to Palestine by Haslassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
 The American Zionist Medical Unit which $ supported by The Zion1st Organization of America and The Joint Distribution Committee, began functioning in Palestine on August IS, 1918. Summarizing the years work, pr. Rubinow makes a special point of those accomplishments of the Unit which are of 8 permanent na- ture, and which have an important bearing on the constructive efforts for the establishment in Palestine of national Jewish homeland.
 These include:
 1. Three hospitals Gin Jerusalem. Jafa and Safed).
 ?. Six dispensaries (Jerusa1em Jaffa, Haifa Tiberias, Safed and He bron).
  CJerusalern. Jaffa and Safed). f. Two training schools for nurses (Jerusalen and Safed).
 ,. An organized sanitary division ir all five cities (JerusaIena, Jaffa, Haifa. Tiberias and Safed).
 The work of the hospitals is neces- sarily limited because of the lack of adequate buildings. With the ap- propr;ation which the Units receives it cannot undertake extensive build ing operations. Baron Edmond i, RothschiId placed his hospital in Jerusalem under the control of the Unit, and the Rothschild hospital in Safed was also placed under the same control by the local government. In Jaffa the Unit had to use a rented ! building. For while the Unit also maintained a hospital in Tiberias in q building belonging to the British Consulate. But when the British Consulate returned, the Medical Unit ! had to evacuate. Another building is being erected for that purpose by Jacob H. Schiff, $10,000 having been ! donated. The Jaffa hospital is small. 1 but the system employed there is most 1 modern. and in keeping with the l latest methods Of American hospitals. | Practically for the first time, in Pal 1 estine, provision has been made for 1 the proper classification of patieats | and for individual examination and l treatment by specialists. The Medi i cal Unit has founded the first bae- 1 teriologieal station, the first Roent- l gen Ray department, the first ward l for skin diseases, and it is establish 1 ing a pathological station near the 1 Rothsehiid hospital.
 The work in the dispensaries is ! continually developing. Heretofore 1 in PaIestinian clinics one doctor was 1 the authority GR ai1 ailments. Now l however, everything is being done by specialists. The number of visits to i the disDensa ries was something less than 15.000 for April and in May | was 2,700. Remarkable work is being done in the three bacterielogica stations as esta abl-shed by the Unit IT April, for example, 800 analyses were ! made, in May 756. Not only the ! hospitals under the eontrei of th: Unit, but also private practitioners an6 private hospitals in order to make certain of the correctness of theil diagnoses. send specimens to the Uni stations for analysis.
 The training schools for nurses art regarded as perhaps the most i'm portant piece of work that the Ameri can Zionist Medical Unit has done This work has the future in mind. I is felt that through these schools health conditions will be greatly i'm. proved, and in the prosecution of thi work. many Palestinian women vii obtain employment. The school 1T Jerusalem is the largest, with thirt, | pupils. This number is expected rapidly to increase. It Is the onI. school for nurses in the world, wher
 the students receive their entir training In Hebrew. The pupils O | the Safed schools will be required t
 undergo a years training in the Jer
 usaIem school. As the pupils be
 come proficient, the task of bed-sEd
 nursing will be turned over to then It is expected that within the mex two or three years it will becom 1 entirely unnecessary to send nurse
 from America and that the profes