ABSTRACT
The Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem still carries on its good work and during 1946 the attendances totalled 123,428-the patients coming from all parts of the Middle East.
In England, about the year 1130, ten acres of land were given to the Knights of St. John at Clerkenwell and here they built their Grand Priory. The Order suffered persecution under King Henry VIII and its estates were confiscated by Queen Elizabeth but it was re-established in 1831 and two years later secured possession of St. John's Gate (with the exception of the Church all that was left of their original property at Clerkenwell) and the Church was handed back again to the Order in 1930, but was later destroyed during the Blitz on London. The Headquarters of the Order are still at St. John's Gate.
