[Developmental tendencies of public health services on Polish lands before and after 1918].

On the basis of the up to now historic-medical researches we can state that sanitarian legislation of the repacious states (Austria, Prussia, Russia) had a decisive influence on public health services development on Polish lands in XIX century. In the elaboration of the polish services project, actively participated the medical Association of Cracow and Warsaw. The presented approaches realizes in the liberated polish State, considered the desire for health services administration union, as well as underlined the decisive role of the urban and district self-government in the organization of health care services. In the multisectorial structure of medical care, public health services-state and self-governed, were rendering services for the whole of population. Some of the important achievements were: accessibility to the public of numerous medical care units, declination of mortality coefficient because of acute and social infective diseases, wide range of preventive activities, etc.