The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-10
BEDS OF SUFFERING CON
SuMPTINES REPLACE
HOLY SCROLLS
Record Number Of Patients Forces jew.
ish Consunptiycs Relief Society TO
Utilize Every Available Space.

causing ii to become "A house Of heal
ing. Out Of the Beth Jacob Syna-
gaguc of the Jewish Consumptives'
Relief Society of Denver a solemn
procession bore the Holy Scrolls and
the other Holy Things of the Temple.
1t carried them to the main medical
building Of the institution, and in the
basement Of this building set up
again, reverently, n place of worship;
more humble than the other, but per
haps still more beautiful with the
spirit of self-sacrifice for the pitiful
and the disease stricken.
Within the walls of the synagogue,
the Holy Scrolls were replaced with
hospital beds. Where before the voice
of the rabbi, the chant of the cantor,
the praying murmur of men and
women resounded, arose the restless
breathing of the sick consumptives,
the even tread of the nurses and the
doctors, the whisper of the sick-room,
perhaps the sound of contcntcd sleep.
of pain assuaged, of hope given.
Here in the House of God. the des.
perate sick have found haven. If
they have prayed (and what sufferer
from the dread White Plague has not
prayedD here was an answer to their
prayers - peace, and loving care, and
medical attention, and hatikvah.
The normal capacity of the Sana-
torium = the largest of its kind in
the world - is normally $50 beds.
During the last six and seven months
the urgency of many of the applying
cases caused the Society to put beds
in every available place until finally
the Sanatorium became crowded with
300 beds.
Finally, n crisis occurred with the
application two weeks ago of a num-
Der of emergency cases. An absolute
lack of vacant beds made admittancc
impossible. An entire week passed,
with the applicants suffering from
lack of proper care and medical at
tention.
The JCRS would not have been true
to its motto: "He who saves one life
is considered as if he had preserved
the whole world" if it had not taken
immediate steps for the rescue of these
unfortunate men and women from the
desolation and fear and gain of dis
ease. What more fitting than that,
failing all other place, the House of
God be turned to for the succor of the
sick and helpless?
And SO today the Beth Jacob Syna-
gogue of the JCRS is ward of the
Sanatorium, and few more women,
men, youths and girls have been given
relief and hope within its walls.
Once more the Jewish Consume
tives' Relief Society of Denver met a
crisis, and passed through it. Yet the
problem that was solved with the con-
version of the synagogue into a ward
was but a problem of one day. To-
morrow, and tomorrow, and after to-
morrow are looming. Each day brings
new rank to the already long wait
ing line.
The situation is critical There is
no further space available in the in
stitution. Here, in the synagogue, the
utmost has been reached. There are
hundreds of consumptives on the wait
ing list Daily, the list grows. From
every state of the nation, new appli-
cants come.
The sanatorium must have new
buildings.
DR.. c. d. Spivak, the secretary of
the Jewish Consumptives' Relief So
ciety, says that an acute situation is
confronting the institution.
A new women's pavilion to have
facilities for more than $50 patients
is needed Other new wards are need
ed. Plans for all these additions have
been ready for long time. The sites
for the buildings have been selected.
Only funds are lacking to go ahead
with this urgent humanitarian work.
The Jewry of the nation, the same
Jewry that has supported the JCRS
from its first days, that has seen it
grow from few shacks and tents
into a great, world-known institution
of healing and combating tuberculosis,
will not now desert it in such crisis.
The fight against tuberculosis must
90 on. The Jewish people, through
the JCRS and other Jewish sanatoria,
have been foremost in this fight. They
will not drop back now.
Victory against tuberculosis is a
thing of the future - slow yet sure
But the struggle is still hard, still
bitter. Only one Jewish tubercular in
ten needing hospital attention has a
bed available in sanatorium. In all
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