„Prof. Dr. V. Sion Hospital” from Constanta, built over 20 years ago, the only
hospital in Constanta except the military one, provided medical care for the city’s
and county’s population in a space with a number of problems:
– The morgue was left in the streets after the new road alignement, so it had to be
demolished and rebuilt in the hospital’s courtyard
– The ice-house must be totally reconstructed, being shattered and so, unfit for its
purpose
– The winter vegetable warehouse, which was destroyed had to be restored
– The cast iron water plant with a history of over 20 years, was almost entirely
rusty
– The drainage was suffering from being clogged, because of the frequent lack of
water
– The windows and doors carpentry, although from oak, was cracked and rotted
– Nonexistent bathrooms, because of the lack of water
– The water-closets, because of the complete lack of water, by inappropriate
pressure, were unusable
– At Medical Department, the closets had no sewage system
– The roof had to be replaced, because rainwater was entering in the patients wards
– A special kitchen was missing in Isolation section
– The disinfection oven from Isolation had to be repared
– The motor from the circular saw was not working since 1930
– An incinerator for garbage combustion was needed
– The courtyard plantation was quite poor
– The terracotta stoves had to be redone
– Solid fencing of the courtyard, to prevent the escape of prostitutes and the wall
climbing by parent or relatives of contagious patients.
The hospital functioned in 1932 with 5 departments led by 5 primary physicians
and 2 secondary ones, having a total of 39 employees, with a number of 140 beds
distributed as follows: 60 beds in Isolation, 55 beds in Surgery; 25 beds in Medical.
Ophtalmology and Radiology departments were not hopitalizing patients (Serviciul
Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului
Constant ¸a 1932a).
Isolation Department started as a standalone unit on January1st 1919, with a
primary physician, a secondary one, a health official, a midwife, 4 nurses, 2 laundresses and one servant. During 1932, the total of patients was 1190, and 13,597
injections with Neosalvarsan and Bismut at 884 patients, men and women. As for
the pathology: scarlet fever (250 cases–23 lethal), malignant pustula (25 cases–18
males, 7 females, 6 lethal); typhoid fever (17 cases-7 males, 8 females, 15 cured,
2 females deceased); diphteria (26 cases – 21 cured, 5 lethal – 4 males, 4 females,
8 boys, 10 girls – at 2 of the children tracheostomy was made); erysipelas (27 cases,
9 males, 17 females and a girl – all cured); infantile paralysis (one man discharged,
much improved); tetanus (10 cases – 7 cured, 3 lethal); granulous conjunctivitis
(5 cases); influenza (23 cases, 14 males, 13 females, 3 boys, 3 girls – all cured);
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O.D. Unc and A.N. Unc
hospital in Constanta except the military one, provided medical care for the city’s
and county’s population in a space with a number of problems:
– The morgue was left in the streets after the new road alignement, so it had to be
demolished and rebuilt in the hospital’s courtyard
– The ice-house must be totally reconstructed, being shattered and so, unfit for its
purpose
– The winter vegetable warehouse, which was destroyed had to be restored
– The cast iron water plant with a history of over 20 years, was almost entirely
rusty
– The drainage was suffering from being clogged, because of the frequent lack of
water
– The windows and doors carpentry, although from oak, was cracked and rotted
– Nonexistent bathrooms, because of the lack of water
– The water-closets, because of the complete lack of water, by inappropriate
pressure, were unusable
– At Medical Department, the closets had no sewage system
– The roof had to be replaced, because rainwater was entering in the patients wards
– A special kitchen was missing in Isolation section
– The disinfection oven from Isolation had to be repared
– The motor from the circular saw was not working since 1930
– An incinerator for garbage combustion was needed
– The courtyard plantation was quite poor
– The terracotta stoves had to be redone
– Solid fencing of the courtyard, to prevent the escape of prostitutes and the wall
climbing by parent or relatives of contagious patients.
The hospital functioned in 1932 with 5 departments led by 5 primary physicians
and 2 secondary ones, having a total of 39 employees, with a number of 140 beds
distributed as follows: 60 beds in Isolation, 55 beds in Surgery; 25 beds in Medical.
Ophtalmology and Radiology departments were not hopitalizing patients (Serviciul
Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului
Constant ¸a 1932a).
Isolation Department started as a standalone unit on January1st 1919, with a
primary physician, a secondary one, a health official, a midwife, 4 nurses, 2 laundresses and one servant. During 1932, the total of patients was 1190, and 13,597
injections with Neosalvarsan and Bismut at 884 patients, men and women. As for
the pathology: scarlet fever (250 cases–23 lethal), malignant pustula (25 cases–18
males, 7 females, 6 lethal); typhoid fever (17 cases-7 males, 8 females, 15 cured,
2 females deceased); diphteria (26 cases – 21 cured, 5 lethal – 4 males, 4 females,
8 boys, 10 girls – at 2 of the children tracheostomy was made); erysipelas (27 cases,
9 males, 17 females and a girl – all cured); infantile paralysis (one man discharged,
much improved); tetanus (10 cases – 7 cured, 3 lethal); granulous conjunctivitis
(5 cases); influenza (23 cases, 14 males, 13 females, 3 boys, 3 girls – all cured);
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O.D. Unc and A.N. Unc