[The child's hospital in Europe]

There weren't child's hospital in Europe until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The need for child's treatment wasn't perceived. Rich people took care of ill children in their homes but poor children were deprived of care or were hospitalized in the hospitals for adults, where they were treated as men and women. Even existence of asylums didn't solve the problems with unwanted, abandoned and ill children. The first hospital for children was built in 1802 in Paris. It was the biggest child's hospital in Europe for a long time (it had 300 beds). Next hospitals were built in Petersburg (1834), Wiedeń and Wrocław (1837), Praga and Moskwa (1842), Berlin (1843), Londyn (1847) and Kopenhaga (1850). At the beginning of the twentieth century there were about 200 hospitals for children all over the world. The most hospitals were in the Germany, the Austro-Hungary and the Great Britain.