[Fight against acute infectious diseases in Poland in the first year of independence (1918-1919)].
In the first year of its independence (1918-1919), the main priority of the young state was the fight against ramp epidemics of acute infectious diseases. The most important task of the newly organized Ministry of Health was the organization of the control of infectious diseases, and especially typhus. Up to the mid-1919, the authorities organized 44 mobile epidemic hospitals with 2,200 beds, 103 communal hospitals with 4,400 beds, and 35-mobile disinfection and disinfection units. Twenty three specially trained epidemic doctors collaborated with district physicians. The difficult conditions associated with continuing war, starting migration and repatriation which caused huge movements of population, weak hospital infrastructure, a serious shortage of medical personnel, sanitary materials, drugs, solap and hospital infrastructure did not facilitate the control of epidemic infectious diseases in the first year of independence.
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Zakład Humanistycznych Nauk Lekarskich Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
D000208:Acute Disease; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005610:Freedom; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland
Zwalczanie ostrych chorób zakaźnych w pierwszym roku istnienia polskł niepodległej 1918-1919.