Metadata: Jewish Public Hospital in Białystok
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/441/0
- Title:
- Jewish Public Hospital in Białystok
- Title (official language):
- Szpital Publiczny Żydowski w Białymstoku
- Creator/accumulator:
- Medical administration of Białystok
- Date(s):
- 1913
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres (2 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection survives only in fragments. It consists of cash books of revenues and expenses. Some of the minutes of meetings of the Hospital Council from 1913 are included in these registers. The preserved cash books contain information on the finances of the Jewish hospital, renovations carried out there, medical supplies and a list of personnel.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- There were two hospitals, one Jewish and one run by the Sisters of Mercy, In the town of Białystok at the beginning of the 19th century. The Jewish Hospital was established thanks to the efforts of the Jewish community. In 1862 it was located in a building at 15 Warszawska Street. The hospital had 48 beds and separate rooms for surgical and internal medicine patients. In the following years, a two-storey building was built next to it, enlarging the hospital to 86 beds with the same wards. The hospital was managed by a council that had a chairman and several members. In addition, two medics, a supervisor and a lawyer were employed. The supervisor was responsible for administrative and economic matters, while treatment and hygiene was overseen by the senior doctor. In 1912, the Jewish Hospital admitted 695 patients. The hospital was overseen by the Grodno Social Welfare Office, which approved hospital budgets, decided on expenses and economic matters, and exercised general supervision over the institutions operating in the province. There were also Jewish care societies that operated in the town independently of the hospital, which organised medical clinics and a pharmacy.
- Access points: locations:
- Białystok
- Finding aids:
-
Printed inventory in the State Archives in Białystok, Adam Dobroński, Białystok - historia miasta [The History of Białystok], Białystok 2001.
An online finding aid is also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk, 2018