British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 702

CHAPTER XVI.

Table 5.

Village schools percentage with trachoma

No. of
children examined
Town Village
1925 .5,024 7,433
1930 5,918 5,140
1935 10,t31 12,982
1939 17,337 20,357
1942 17,036 22,247
1914 12,125 16,035 Attendance foe ophthalmic treatment

Town schools percentage with trachoma

1,050,593 2,112,951 2,798,600 2,682,040 2,589,457 2,432,166

57 41 50 37 2~ 40

78 68 62 58 33 39

164. A comparison of the numbers of children in Arab areas benefiting from infant welfare work is given below. The first centres were opened by Government in 1925 :

Table 6.
No. of No. of Attendances Visits by
centres infants of infants at nurses to
cared for the centre infants homes
1928 11 4,304 31,880 24,358
1935 25 4,839 160,306 GG,10~
1939 34 7,039 304,005 98,323
1943 36 G,730 311,732 103,362
1944 38 7,909 359,769 114,004

165. A comparative statement of the bed strength of, and admission of Arabs to, Government and municipal hospitals and corresponding figures in respect of voluntary institutions is below :-

Government and Municipal Voluntary
Bed strength Admissions Bed strength* Admissions
1921 304 5,882 1,084 7,357
1928 305 4,525 1,657 9,398
1935 738** 9,255 1,839 14,615
1939 917** ll,347 1,991 13.992
1942 1,179** 16,433 1,595*** 14,914
1944 1,307** 16,810 1,706 14,486

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* Including hospitals wholly or preponderantly for Jewish patients.
** The figures include 234 beds at Tel Aviv in 1935 and 1939 and 300 since 1942 which in this context should be subtracted in making comparison between the years shown; the figures of admission do not. include Tel Aviv.
*** Reflects closure of German hospitals in Jaffa and Haifa; the Italian hospitals in Jerusalem; and the elimination from the list of the Motaa Sanatorium.

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