there were the cattle stables (2–3 cattle). At the recent established Romanian
colonists, the living is similar, but with better houses and bigger, mobile windows.
The rural population, in majority, feeds with homemade bread, except the
colonists and few old Romanians from Dobrogea that eat meat, eggs, vegetables,
fish and polenta.
Besides villages that had the chance of having water sources, therefore drinking
water free of infections, the other ones had water coming from rudimentary built
fountains.
In the county there were: 17 petroleum products warehouses; 137 brandy making
boilers; 24 sparkling water factories; 1 cement factory; 1 nail factory; 70 mills;
27 wool equipments; 11 oil factories; 11 brick factories; 520 taverns; 258 coffee
houses.
Proposals for the future in year 1931 were the following:
– The transition of the entire medical staff to the Health Ministry
– Construction of dispensaries in the service’s property at each medical circumscription residence and doctor’s house
– Making Cernavoda and Harsova hospitals operational
– A disinfection team to combat infectious and contagious diseases
– Declaring the syphilis cases and compulsory treatment for each of them
– Better propaganda for tuberculosis fight
– The establishment of a hospital in Plopeni (Carvaclar) or Constanta with 30–40
beds, for granulous conjunctivitis
– Augmentation of the M.D. and county doctors allowances
– Movement allowance for sanitary agents
– Establishment of a hospital in Medgidia, with surgery and internal medicine
– On time drug supply for the sanitary institutions (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al
Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al Judet ¸ului Constant ¸a 1931).
The Health Service of Constanta county during 1931 was led by a chief
physician helped by 3 district doctors, a school doctor, 8 sanitary agents, 4 midwives
and a nurse care. For the external needs of the health service meaning: deaths
verifications; epidemics combat; industrial and commercial places controls, there is
only one carriage with a pair of horses, which serves for the contagious patients
transport also. For disinfection there was a team consisting in: a health agent, a
mechanic and a janitor with a Geneste-Herscher oven, pulled by 4 oxen, taken from
the Sanitation Service. This oven was insufficient, especially during multiple
epidemics, when this was not only in the in-fact town, but in the limitrophe
neighbourhoods also: Anadolchioi; I.C.Bratianu; Viile Noi and Viile Vechi;
Palaz; Medeea. Pacient transport to the hospital was made with a closed ambulance
with no tires, that is why they suffered during this process. This ambulance was
insufficient also. During 1931, 12,105 free consultations were given, 168 tuberculosis patients were visited, 3 with pellagra, and 185 syphilis patients were treated
(Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al
Municipiului Constant ¸a 1931).
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colonists, the living is similar, but with better houses and bigger, mobile windows.
The rural population, in majority, feeds with homemade bread, except the
colonists and few old Romanians from Dobrogea that eat meat, eggs, vegetables,
fish and polenta.
Besides villages that had the chance of having water sources, therefore drinking
water free of infections, the other ones had water coming from rudimentary built
fountains.
In the county there were: 17 petroleum products warehouses; 137 brandy making
boilers; 24 sparkling water factories; 1 cement factory; 1 nail factory; 70 mills;
27 wool equipments; 11 oil factories; 11 brick factories; 520 taverns; 258 coffee
houses.
Proposals for the future in year 1931 were the following:
– The transition of the entire medical staff to the Health Ministry
– Construction of dispensaries in the service’s property at each medical circumscription residence and doctor’s house
– Making Cernavoda and Harsova hospitals operational
– A disinfection team to combat infectious and contagious diseases
– Declaring the syphilis cases and compulsory treatment for each of them
– Better propaganda for tuberculosis fight
– The establishment of a hospital in Plopeni (Carvaclar) or Constanta with 30–40
beds, for granulous conjunctivitis
– Augmentation of the M.D. and county doctors allowances
– Movement allowance for sanitary agents
– Establishment of a hospital in Medgidia, with surgery and internal medicine
– On time drug supply for the sanitary institutions (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al
Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al Judet ¸ului Constant ¸a 1931).
The Health Service of Constanta county during 1931 was led by a chief
physician helped by 3 district doctors, a school doctor, 8 sanitary agents, 4 midwives
and a nurse care. For the external needs of the health service meaning: deaths
verifications; epidemics combat; industrial and commercial places controls, there is
only one carriage with a pair of horses, which serves for the contagious patients
transport also. For disinfection there was a team consisting in: a health agent, a
mechanic and a janitor with a Geneste-Herscher oven, pulled by 4 oxen, taken from
the Sanitation Service. This oven was insufficient, especially during multiple
epidemics, when this was not only in the in-fact town, but in the limitrophe
neighbourhoods also: Anadolchioi; I.C.Bratianu; Viile Noi and Viile Vechi;
Palaz; Medeea. Pacient transport to the hospital was made with a closed ambulance
with no tires, that is why they suffered during this process. This ambulance was
insufficient also. During 1931, 12,105 free consultations were given, 168 tuberculosis patients were visited, 3 with pellagra, and 185 syphilis patients were treated
(Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al
Municipiului Constant ¸a 1931).
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