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The House on Henry Street
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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…

Contributor:

Lillian Wald

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Medicine, Profession, Poverty, Health, Cities

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
Appointment of a Doctor for the Poor
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On Sunday 3 Tammuz 5416, the lords, their honors, the wardens, may the Rock preserve them, gathered together and once again accepted master Yontil the balbirer [barber] to be the expert physician for…

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The Jewish Community of Kraków

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1657

Subjects:

Communal organizations, Medicine, Health, Poverty, Cities

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes
Letter to a Nursing Convention in St. Louis
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From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion. Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…

Contributor:

Rose Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Health, Medicine, Poverty, Mizrahi, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters