Table showing Number of Persons Admitted to Hospitals And Treated As Out-Patients, 1944 in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 634. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 1: Health Services : (b) Particulars of Government Health Services : Table 3

CHAPTER XVI.

34. The Arab is very differently situated and, though his fatalistic attitude towards sickness is susceptible to change where facilities for medical treatment or advice are obtainable, there are very few villages in which private medical practitioners reside and only relatively few in which public clinics are held by Government or mission doctors at weekly or fortnightly intervals. In general the Arab villager has to proceed considerable distances on donkey or foot for any medical assistance. It is in the towns only that reasonably adequate facilities for medical attention are available and only in the principal towns that public hospitals maintained by religious or missionary bodies or by Government exist for the needs of the

Arab community. .

Table 3.

NUMBER of PERSONS (ARAB AND JEW) ADMITTED TO HOSPITALS AND TREETED AS OUT-PATIENTS IN 1944.

Population estimates

Admission to hospitals:

Jews

Non-Jews I

144.369 I

I "b of

No. Population

1,673,071 --l-%of

No. j fa~fo:

Total

52S,702

-1%0f

No. Popu-

lat ion

G~:~~;1(1i~~\1;:;~~gmuni- I 1 \ !

Tel Aviv municipal \ ) I

hospital) 11,8161 16.948 I 28.764

T~!o~;~it:1°(~~~~::~~1 I [

above) (8,728)\ (100) (8.828)

Jewish institutions 16 160 I 645 1 16,8051

Non-Jeewish voluntary l . I

Institutional j 7,725 I - ! 13,888: - 21,613 1

Total bospitai" 1•--1-\--,---ll-

admissions 1 35,701 6.75 i 31,481 j 2.75 67,182 4.02

- --- -- ,_____ __

Total out-patients I ] 1 I

Government and municipal (including Tel Aviv municipal hospital)

Tel Aviv municipal hospital (included above)

Jewish institutions Non-Jewish voluntary institutions

Total out-patients; all clinics

I 39,141: - 181,459 I - 220,600

I I

(19,797)1 - -I (19,797)

: 1,157,098 17,1451 -11,174,243

I 17,005 - 133,199 - 150,2041 -

11,213,244 [229 471 331,803 28 98 J l,545,047 92 34

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