title: [From the history of organization of the health service in Lódz on the turn of XIXth and XXth century (to 1914)].
abstract: On the turn of the 60s and 70s of the XIX century as a result of social -economical transformations which had occurred in the Polish Kingdom, Lódź experienced extremely quick industrial and demographical progress. With the increase in the number of inhabitants, particularly from 80s, the dynamic changes were observed, resulting in the increase in the number of health- service workers in the private service including doctors, dentists, barber-surgeons, midwives and druggists. In the multinational and multireligious Lódz, among health service workers, beside Polish ones there was also staff of German and Jewish descent. In comparison with the private service, the municipal one consisting of only a few doctors, veterinary surgeons and barber-surgeons, was expanding much more slowly. This was a result of Russian sanitary administrations, interest at public health being limited to the minimum. The worsening sanitary-hygienic conditions were the manifestation of this, and in consequence-growing incidence and high death rate of Lódź community, especially from acute and chronic infectious diseases. Decisive role, in the fight against health menaces, fell to socially committed doctors, who were helped by dentists and druggists.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Historii Medycyny i Framacji, Akademii Medycznej w Lozi.
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Berner
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009938:Organizations / Q000266:history*; D011044:Poland; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000266:history*; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Z dziejów organizacji słuzby zdrowia w Lodzi na przełomie XIX i XX wieku (do 1914 roku).