The Denver Jewish news., 1920-08-25
DR.. Spivak Introduces New Tubercular
Treatment in Roumania and
Bukowina
PREVENTIVE CHILDREN PRINCIPAL EFFORT
COOPERATION GOVERNMENTS MEDICAL GIVEN
ROUMANIA GIVES JEWS BETTER TREATMENT THAN BE-
FORE WAR

mania. I proposed to open mp bar
racks thrIOut Roumania for the treat
ment of scrofnlous children and sus-
and practicable. Tomorrow we meet
again. Friday l leave for ChernOwitz
and for n tour of inspection of the
sanatoria IN ROumania, whose number
Is four.
l visited some of the dwellings Of
the cOnsumptives today in company Of
DR.. Spirit. It's horrible. The cOndi-
tiOns of housing in Europe is terrible.
crease in their population on account
Of the influx of refugees from the
devastated regions. and there is no
room to be had for love or money
There is no building going on. There
are no building materials no iron of
any kind in Roumania. Hence peopl"
live in dugOuts, In wnter-closets. gar
rets, abandoned stables, any place. To
day I found holes" where human
beings live. some of which are dirty
beyond description. and others clean.
Today is IIerzl's Yahrzcit and at
@ o'clock they will call me. I want
to be present at the meetings which
are arranged by the Jews IL all syna-
gogs.
The bucharest peOple-the Jews
are very ignorant altho they speak
several languages. hut the Zionist and
the Yiddishist have stirred up some
Jewish life here. Imagine. I found
here the only Jewish home for the
aged. where the old people do not
study the Talmud. in fact. there was
not single hook in the Institution. 1t
is a good criteriol.
bucharest, July Z.
Hurrah There Ia good prospect
for the realization of my plan of bar-
racks. of course, the Jews will come
In first on the deal. attended n
meeting of Relief committee just
organized by Landescu for the purpose
of taking over the local relief They
called on me and I outlined the plan
for barracks. 1t was accepted with
whoop. and committee of three
doctors. one engineer and myself, are
the committee. Tomorrow we meet.
and I hope the next day the work will
start. In fact. I am so sangnine on
the subject that I expect to have the
pavilion. or rather the first bnrrack.
ready within two or three weeks.
expect that this example will he CON
tagious and the other cities will follow
suit ! know the nOn-Jews will imi-
tate. Gee. l am having lots Of fun
! am as happy as I can he in the
thought that the scheme may save
thousands of children. can see the
little ones slowly cured of the scrufu-
losis. and getting rid of their infec-
tiOns. OF course. I know of all the
difficulties that am bound to en-
counter. but l am hopeful.
The ROumaniaa Jews all speak Ron
manian. The better" class-the rich
never use it. OF course. it is to
these people l had to talk. Most of
them speak an excellent German.
told them that l like the Roumaninn
language by sound only. and that !
regret my ignorance. hut that I will
speak in a language that is going 70
supersede Volapuk and Esperanto.
will speak In the only universal Ian
cuage extant-namely Yiddish. ] spoke
for about twenty minutes, was ap-
plauded. of course. which ] though
was out of courtesy. But they all I'M
derstOotl. The president. an old high
ly cultured man, while thanking me
for the "Vortrag". said that I brought
hack to him his youthful days. when
in the close circle of his family they
still spoke Yiddish. and that he was
understand every word. A physician
came to me and said he was glad that
an educated man (meaning mel does
not thi1k 1t beneath his dignity to
speak Yiddish etc. In word. not
only did my plan please them, hut
they had enjoyed Yfddish talk.
which some of them had not heard in
decades.
Bucharest. July 9.
was very busy today. and had a
meeting late into the night. So far
things GO smoothly, with only a hitch
now and then. My committee met last
night. and we discussed this new kind
of sana torium. the kind of children
who will he accepted tno open tubcr-
culosis). the number at first 5O-thc
kind. scope. size Of the building. the
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