https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2012.12.10
The topic of the present article is an analysis of the in-patient hospital care in Katowice during the inter-war period. In historiography, up till now, the topic has not met with great interest. Only few works are available, mostly describing the social situation of the Second Polish Republic in that time. A relatively rich collection of documents referring to this topic that can be found in the National Archives in Katowice allows some concrete-demanding issues to be made more specific, for example the maintenance of hospitals in this period. In the article, two main hypotheses were put forward. The first pertains to the too little (but gradually increasing) number of medical staff in Katowice. The second hypothesis concerns the general number of beds in Katowice’s clinics, also gradually increasing, and displaying one of the highest rates (per 10,000 inhabitants) in comparison with other Polish cities. In Katowice there were five main hospitals which were assigned to the city districts. From the moment of Upper Silesia merging with Poland to the end of the 1920s, there can be recognized a significant increase in the number of doctors in Katowice. The comparison of in-patient hospital care has been made, taking into account the number of beds, physicians, and general medical staff, between Katowice and other Polish cities, among others: Poznań, which like Katowice had been under German rule previously and had a similar socio-political situation, as well as Warsaw, Łódź, and Cracow. Analogous comparisons were made on the level of voivodeships: Silesian, Poznań, Warsaw, and Pomeranian. The beginning of the 1930s did not offer a good perspective for the development of hospital care not only in Katowice but also in the rest of the country. The reason behind this was the economic crisis of the 1930s. In the second half of the 1930s, the issue of hospital care in Katowice presented itself much better: the majority of units in Katowice had quite modern equipment. What is more, the number of doctors still had an increasing tendency.
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