[The health and sanitary care in Kingdom of Poland at the turn of 19th century]

The subject of the article is a description of the organization and the development of the forms of medical health and sanitary care realized by social-philanthropic institutions and state administration at the turn of the 19th century in the territories of the Kingdom of Poland. The forms of health and sanitary care were classified into those which should be organized maintained by the state, that is social and industrial insurances, industrial plant hospitals, outpatient clinics for workers, for prevention and control of infections and venereal diseases. The other groups included of social care. Social-philanthropic institutions and various individuals tried to provide all possible medical health care to the poorest part of the population and the unemployed. It tried to help children adolescents working in gainful occupations, children born out of wedlock, patients with so called social diseases. It was well known that this health and sanitary care was insufficient and ineffective.