The Denver Jewish news., 1923-06-28
$50, 900 Pledge by B'nai Birth
District No. 2 Announced At
Annual Meeting of Natl
onal Jewish Hospital

Announcement that District Grand
Lodge No. .. l. q. Il. II. had pledged it.
self to rnise One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand (xllO.O0O) Dola,s for u new
Infirmary Building for the National
Jewish Hospital for SConsunptives.
created an atmosphere Of enthn.'iasm
at the tweniy-fonrth nnnnni meeting
of that Institution during the opening
session On Friday. June o2rd. This On
thusiasm WIS increased when the fol
lowing letter of cOinmendatiOn from
President Harding wns read:
THE White House. June ~. 1923.
Mr.. Nanny Strauss.
Chairman Subscribers Convention Com.
My dear Mr.. Strauss:
nm much obliged to YOU fer calli;ig
my attention to the annual convent on
in Denver this month of the Ma. ionuI
Jewish Hospital for Consumptivc:s.
This institution has done fine ana
truly philanthropic work fer The re
duction of tuberculosis and 1t is u pleas
ure to record my commendntion of its
past and my sincerest good wishes for
its future
Sincerely yours
WARREN q. HARDING
senator Seldcn +. Spencer OF Mis-
souri, sent the following greeting:
1T is great work that the Nntion
al Jewish Hospital for Consumptive
at Denver has done There IL greater
work yet to bc done. and no race vi
people on earth have been more gencr-
Gus In the care of their own people
than the American Jewry.
Another letter was from Senator
Reed Smoot. Of Utah. III which he
wrdHe to Mr.. Strnuss:
Il have always heard and heartily
approve Of the wonderful work ne
complished by the Nstienal Jewish
Hospital for Consnmptives. At the
time the officials of the hospital an
nounced to the country that 1t would
give free treatment to patients having
tuberculosis. people were skepticnl q.
the financial success Of amy institu-
tion based upon so humanitarian n
principle.
The officers of the hospital are I,
he congratulated upon the accomplish
mcnts consummated and l have no
doubt but what thomsands.of patients
who have been cured and restored to
economic Independence will never
create to call the Institution blessed. :"
Participated In by Representatives
of fifty thousand subscribers. and dele
gates from Districts No. } and No. q
of the Independent Order B'nai Birth.
the sessions were presided over ]
Rabbi VIM s. Friedman, First Vice
President OF the Institution. In the
absence of Nathan l.. Dnuby. President
Greetings were extended to the cOnven-
tiOn by Harry y. Frnmcss of Denver
on behalf Of the Jewish Consumptives
Relief Society: by Mrs. May Morris
president of the Central Jewish Aid SO
ciety of Denver: Mrs. Jacob n. Lorlper.
President Denver ShcItering Home fof
Jewish Children.
President Dauby's report. which wns
read by Mrs. Seraphinc Pisko. Secre-
tary. called attention among other
things to the following facts:
"The Hospital has sheltered between
four and five thousand patients in the
time of its existence. In the earl
days of the Hospital, 1t was the aim
the founders to nuke 1t nm institution
for incipient cases-nnd the results
were remarkable. About seventy-five
per cent of the patients admitted in
these days were dismissed from the
Hospital with disease arrested. and
again took their place out IN the world
as bread-winner or home maker I'm
fortunately, the war brought about Il
condition which made ii impossible for
the management of the Hospital to
continue this policy. and. naturally.
the percentage Of cures is smaller. A
large proportion of the patients who
are now received in the various sana-
toria are from moderately to far ad-
vanced cases. In the National Jewish
Hospital. this has brought about the
necessity of new building: nm i'll
firmary for bad patients. None of the
old buildings was built for this class
of invalids. l hope that nt this meet
ing the new building will become II
fact. and that at the Silver Ami
versary of the Hospital (Which will
he held in 1924.) this new building wi.
be dedicated.