THE FEDERATION JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 25, 1942
One-Quarter of Jewish Aged
Depend on Social Agencies
War
Honor Hon
Survey Prepared by Federation Staff Is Presented to Direct-
ors of Jewish Home for Aged by Pekarsky and Silver
Page Three
from the Bataan area since the
fall of the Philippines. He may
be a prisoner of the Japs.
Pvt. Rubinowitz enlisted in Oc-
tober, 1939. Two months before
Pearl Harbor he wan the light
heavyweight championship of
the Asiatic fleet in a boxing bout
in Manila.
Lost at Sea
Capt. Abraham Robert Heller,
35, of Asbury Park, N. J., has
been lost at sea since August 6,
on a dangerous reconnaissance
mission of the highest impor-
tance. Heller, a native of Denver,
Colo., was stationed with the
Army Signal Corps in the Pan-
ama Canal Zone. His body was
recovered and was buried in the
Jewish section of the National
Distinguished Service
Lieutenant Irving Berman of
Paterson, N. J., navigator aboard
A statistical study on dependent Jewish aged of De- a heavy bomber plane which was
troit, prepared by the staff of the Jewish Welfare Feder- lost in action while attacking the
ation of Detroit, was presented to the meeting of the Japanese in Alaska during bad
weather, has been posthumously
Jewish Old Age Bureau on Wednesday evening.
awarded the Order of the Purple
The summary of this report, compiled by Herman Heart
by the War Department.
Pekarsky, general administrative assistant of the Jewish
Missing in Action
Welfare Federation, follows:
Pvt. F. C. Samuel N. Rubino-
The Summary
witz, of Revere, Mass., aerial gun-
1. It is estimated that thereAged), one psychotic, 9 psycho- ner in the Army Air Corps, has
neurotics
and
1
feeble-minded.
are 4,140 Jewish persons, 60 yeafs
been reported missing in action
of age and over in Detroit, con _ There were also three psychotics
listed
by
the
social
worker
for
stituting 4.6 per cent of the total
which there was no medical con-
Jewish population of 90,000.
2. The study considered 1,092 firmation.
13. Among the 123 residents
separate individuals known to
three Jewish and three public of the Jewish Home for Aged,
agencies. Of the 1,092 individuals, the most prevalent diseases were
1,038 were 60 years of age and of the circulatory system with a
over, constituting 25 per cent of total of 220.
14. Information obtained on
the total Jewish population in
the degree of disability or physi-
this age group.
3. Of the 1,092 individuals, cal helplessness of individuals re-
siding outside of an institution
572 were male and 520 female.
4. The average age of the 1,- indicates that 413 individuals
were up and able to get around,
092 individuals was 66.5 years.
one was up but house-bound,
5. Of the 1,092 individuals, 2.6
per cent were single, 53.8 per cent three used a wheelchair, and one
was bedridden.
married, 34.2 per cent widowed,
15. The residents of the Jew-
3.2 per cent divorced, 4.9 per cent
separated, 1.5 per cent not ish Home for the Aged were also
classified on the basis of the de-
known.
gree of disability or physical
6. Of the 1,092 individuals, 1,-
helplessness. Of the 123 residents,
044 or 95.6 per cent were foreign-
48 were classified as "aged", 37
born and only 28 or 2.5 per cent
as "'infirm" and 38 as "stationary
were born in the United States. chronic."
No information was available for
Traces History of Home
20 - individuals.
The background to this survey
7. Of the 1,044 foreign-born
was analyzed by Harold Silver,
individuals only 472 or 43.3 per
executive director of the Jewish
cent were citizens.
Social Service Bureau, who
8. Of the 1,092 individuals 893 traced the history of the present
lived outside of an institution. Of Home for Aged.
the 893 individuals living outside
The detailed report was pre-
of an institution, 755 lived in
pared by a committee consisting
some kind of family group, while
of Drs. Bennett and Sandweiis
138 lived alone. Nearly one-half
and Messrs. Pekarsky and Silver.
of. those living as members of a
family group lived together with
. eir spouses. 167 lived with
• •uses and children, and 151
'ved alone with their children.
9. Medical
information is
vailable for 903 of the 1,092 sep- Back From Lisbon, Rosen
: ate individuals included in the
Reveals How Help Was
tudy. Complete diagnostic infor-
• tion is available for 619 of the
Rushed to Victims
4 I individuals. For 284 individ-
als a complete medical diag-
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s em at the Jewish Home for
Cemetery at Corozal, Canal Zone,
Rabbi Nathan Witkin, JWB rep-
resentative in Balboa, officiating
at the funeraL
Killed in Line of Duty
1st Lieut. Leon Herman Shane,
Army Air Corps, of Bethlehem,
Pa., stationed at Biggs Field, Tex.,
was killed in the crash of a Fly-
ing Fortress over New Mexico.
2nd Lieut. Stanley A. Hecker,
Army Air Corps, of New York,
stationed at MacDill Field, Fla.,
was killed in a plane crash dur-
ing a training flight.
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JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)
•e total number of Palestine
ews enlisted in the British
orces in Palestine reached the
e of 17,000 at the end of
ugust, it is revealed by the re-
ling department of the Jew-
.. Agency. That figure does not,
.wever, include the Palestinian
ews enrolled in other Allied
...es in the Middle East, such
the Czech, Polish and Greek
,
EMANUEL ROSEN
told a press conference here at
which Joseph C. Hyman, execu-
tive vice-chairman of the J. D.
C., presided. Mr. Rosen, who has
spent the last three and a half
years abroad, more than two of
them in the Portuguese capital,
is here on a brief visit to confer
with the officers of the J. D. C.
on bringing increased aid to Jew-
ish sufferers of the new events.
Mr. Rosen recited the eye-wit-
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to him by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz,
chairman- of ti J. D. C.'s Euro-
pean Executive Council, who had
made a tour of inspection in
France and Spain.
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