[The epidemic hospitals in Poland ordered or inspected by Chief extraordinary Epidemic Commissariat to fight against the epidemics (1920-1924)].

The anti-epidemic compaign in Poland was in the hands of Chief Epidemic Commissariat. The Commissariat was organized on July of 1920y. as a special institution to fight against the acute infectious diseases. In the end of 1920y. it had 188 hospitals with 9,245 beds, with a reserve of 1,185 beds in the Red Cross, military hospitals and so on, it had a total of 12,915 beds. The tables of number 1 and 2 presented the number of the hospitals in Polish department, number of the beds, number of the patients and number of the hospital-days, number of the cases of the typhus, typhoid fever, relapsing fever, dysentery and the other diseases in the first half of 1920y. and in the second half of 1921y. As you see there were the most patients with the typhus. In 1922y. Epidemic Commissariat ordered of 116 hospitals with 10,785 beds. The table of the number 3 presented the number of the cases, deaths and the mortality of the typhus, relapsing fever, typhoid fever, dysentery, variola vera, cholera and the other diseases. In 1923y. Epidemic Commissariat had 112 hospitals with 11,000 beds. The table of number 4 confronted the number of the hospitals, number of the beds and its use in the hospitals ordered or inspected by Commissariat in 1922y. and in 1923y. there were 9 hospitals with 4,050 beds for the repatriates. In the half of 1923y. the repatriation was reduced and Epidemic Commissariat began to liquidate the part of the epidemic hospitals. The Commissariat had in the end of the year 4 hospitals in department of Kielce, 17 hospitals in the department of Bia3ystok, 19 hospitals in the department of Polesie, 11 hospitals in department of Nowogrodek, 14 hospitals in department of Wo3yn, 14 hospitals in department of Wino, 3 hospitals in department of Stanis3wow and 1 hospital with 100 beds in Tarnopol. Medical care of infectious diseases in the epidemic hospitals in 1919-1924 illustrated the table number 5. There were the numbers of the cases, deaths, hospitals, beds and patients. Generally the progress of epidemic hospitals was connected with the repatriation. In 1923y. the repatriation was finished also were reduced the new cases of infectious diseases. Part of the epidemic hospitals were closed and the others were taken by municipal authorities. The epidemic situation in Poland was better step by step and in 1924y. Epidemic Commissariat was liquidated.