hospitals, Medgidia and Harsova, under county administration had 40 beds,
Harsova hospital being later dissolved for lack of funds, and Cernavoda hospital
working as a dispensary. Carvaclar and Parachioi hospital, destroyed by war could
not be made operative, serving as dispensaries. Besides these, there were 5 more
dispensaries, county property and one more dispensary purchased by the state. The
remaining medical constituencies had rental houses as dispensaries, paid by the
county. During 1931, 50,346 free consultations were given, 901 medical inspections in the county’s municipalities were conducted, 6211 births benefited from
graduated midwives medical assistance and the rest, of “empirical old women”,
which explains the high rate of infantile mortality. 69 BCG vaccines were
performed without any accidents and also, 55 vaccinations with anti-diphtheria
serum. In 1931 from the total of 8485 births, 4187 were boys and 4298 were girls,
the registered mortality being of:
– 1597 deaths until the age of 1
– 568 deaths until the age of 2
– 386 deaths until the age of 5
– 2112 deaths from age of 5 up
The mortality causes were declared as follows:
– Congenital debility (because of parental diseases heredity)
– Gastro-intestinal affections
– Respiratory affections
– Infectious and contagious affections
– Trauma
Epidemic diseases combated in 1931 were the following: scarlet fever (483 cases
from which 74 lethal); typhoid fever (95 cases with 13 lethal); anthrax (13 cases,
3 lethal); dysentery (7 cases); exanthematic typhus (1 case); lethargic encephalitis
(11 cases); cerebrospinal meningitis (6 cases, 2 lethal); infantile paralysis (2 cases,
1 lethal); measles (626 cases, 35 lethal); flu (180 cases, 3 lethal); chickenpox
(13 cases); whooping cough (233 cases, 2 lethal).
Social declared diseases in 1931 were the following: syphilis (1900 cases);
tuberculosis (1056 cases); malaria (884 cases); pellagra (272 cases); cancer
(40 cases); granulous conjunctivitis (858 cases).
In the entire county there were 196 school places in the service’s property and
44 rented.
Regarding the housing, in Constanta county the first place in matter of space and
hygiene was held by the German colonists established here for 30–40 years, and
the second one by Romanians. Their houses had 2–3 rooms, from which one was
the salon, another the bedroom and the last the kitchen, each of them with floors, for
the wealthy ones. The third place belongs to the colonists, and the last to the native
Tatars and the Romanian colonists, whom the state could not help. The Tatars
houses were very low (cottages), having one room with small, immobile windows,
blind stoves, in where 6–8 people lived, with 2–5 mats on the floor, and near which
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O.D. Unc and A.N. Unc
Harsova hospital being later dissolved for lack of funds, and Cernavoda hospital
working as a dispensary. Carvaclar and Parachioi hospital, destroyed by war could
not be made operative, serving as dispensaries. Besides these, there were 5 more
dispensaries, county property and one more dispensary purchased by the state. The
remaining medical constituencies had rental houses as dispensaries, paid by the
county. During 1931, 50,346 free consultations were given, 901 medical inspections in the county’s municipalities were conducted, 6211 births benefited from
graduated midwives medical assistance and the rest, of “empirical old women”,
which explains the high rate of infantile mortality. 69 BCG vaccines were
performed without any accidents and also, 55 vaccinations with anti-diphtheria
serum. In 1931 from the total of 8485 births, 4187 were boys and 4298 were girls,
the registered mortality being of:
– 1597 deaths until the age of 1
– 568 deaths until the age of 2
– 386 deaths until the age of 5
– 2112 deaths from age of 5 up
The mortality causes were declared as follows:
– Congenital debility (because of parental diseases heredity)
– Gastro-intestinal affections
– Respiratory affections
– Infectious and contagious affections
– Trauma
Epidemic diseases combated in 1931 were the following: scarlet fever (483 cases
from which 74 lethal); typhoid fever (95 cases with 13 lethal); anthrax (13 cases,
3 lethal); dysentery (7 cases); exanthematic typhus (1 case); lethargic encephalitis
(11 cases); cerebrospinal meningitis (6 cases, 2 lethal); infantile paralysis (2 cases,
1 lethal); measles (626 cases, 35 lethal); flu (180 cases, 3 lethal); chickenpox
(13 cases); whooping cough (233 cases, 2 lethal).
Social declared diseases in 1931 were the following: syphilis (1900 cases);
tuberculosis (1056 cases); malaria (884 cases); pellagra (272 cases); cancer
(40 cases); granulous conjunctivitis (858 cases).
In the entire county there were 196 school places in the service’s property and
44 rented.
Regarding the housing, in Constanta county the first place in matter of space and
hygiene was held by the German colonists established here for 30–40 years, and
the second one by Romanians. Their houses had 2–3 rooms, from which one was
the salon, another the bedroom and the last the kitchen, each of them with floors, for
the wealthy ones. The third place belongs to the colonists, and the last to the native
Tatars and the Romanian colonists, whom the state could not help. The Tatars
houses were very low (cottages), having one room with small, immobile windows,
blind stoves, in where 6–8 people lived, with 2–5 mats on the floor, and near which
656
O.D. Unc and A.N. Unc