Tuberculosis
Found in 5615 Collections and/or Records:
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1923
Part 2 of the report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting held June 9 and 12, 1923; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes statistical data about the patients in 1922 and a report of the Society's expenditures. Published as volume 17, number 3 (July, August, September 1923) of The Sanatorium.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1921
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1920
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1924
Part 2 of the report of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) annual meeting held on May 30-June 2, 1924; Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was the Society's President, and C.D. Spivak was the Secretary. Includes 20-year statistical data about patients from 1904-1923, and a report of the Society's expenditures. Published as Volume 18, Number 4 (October, November, December 1924) of The Sanatorium.
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society of Denver, Colorado, 1924
Publications, 1909-1925
Miscellaneous copies of "Tales of the Tents" from 1914 to 1915, and a copy of "The Denver Jewish News" from August 13, 1915.
Publicity Releases, 1923-1924
publicity releases related to the Pisko file
Purim Costume Party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1925 March 10
A costume party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) held for patients. Parties were often given for patients of the JCRS as a form of recreation while they recovered from tuberculosis. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.
Rabbi Elias Hillkowitz, circa 1910
Rabbi Elias Hillkowitz was considered the dean of Denver's early west-side Orthodox Jewish rabbis. He was an early supporter of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), where his son, Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, served as president from 1904 to 1948. Rabbi Hillkowitz suggested the JCRS motto from the Talmud: ''He who saves one life saves the world.''
Radio Broadcasting at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1952
An unidentified man and woman, who appear to be hosting a radio show on the grounds of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado.