[Health service in the Polish Kingdom after the November insurrection]

The foundation of the Main Medical Care Board acting within the frame of the Department of Internal Affaires was the most important legal solution regarding administration of the hospitals in the Polish Kingdom after downfall of the November insurrection. In that time the hospitals - apart from their own funds and capitals - were receiving also "annual support from the Treasury" and other sums from so-called extraordinary sources. Also new hospitals were built (12 new hospitals were inaugurated in the Kingdom in the years 1832-1834) and the old ones were developed or modernized. The number of persons seeking assistance in hospitals and in so-called charity institutions for the poor, orphans and newborns was similar to the one before 29th November 1830. The highest mortality was in teh Warsaw Infant Jesus hospital (27 per 100 persons in case of adults and in case of infant mortality it was 60 per 100). It is interesting that the lowest mortality rate was in the Orthodox Jew hospitals. The Interim Medical Committee and the Medical Council had continued issuance of medical, surgical, pharmaceutical and other certificates and consents (but the number of documents issued was rather low).