SOCIAL-HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS IN SUBOTICA FROM THE YEAR 1766 TO 1944
In the first half of the 18th century health care in Subotica is characterized by, so called, monastery medicine (monks who cared for the ill) and folk medicine (healers and herbalists). There was no special house to isolate and treat the ill in that time, not even in time of the plague epidemic (years 1709 and 1738-1739).
During the mid-eighteenth century first health workers appear in the form of healers trained by barbers and a couple of uneducated midwives. The Poor House opened in 1766 as a haven for the poor and weak (first social institution in Subotica).
In the start of the 19th century the city physician asks that the Magistrate pays more attention to the maintenance of the Poor House, but also puts effort in the development of one hospital building. True, the Poor House is often called hospital (Nosocomium) because of the fact that in it were also ill, poor people who were sometimes treated by the city physician. Because of this fact the Poor House can also be considered the origin of hospital service here, since all efforts to build a hospital building (1804 and 1818) failed, mostly due to the lack of financial support.
The opening of a separate building for hospital service didn’t happen until 1841, when one private building was bought (on the present location of the Fire Station) and was refurnished for hospital needs. The number of people seeking aid in hospital increased in the following years. Existing hospital is expanded with the construction of a smaller house for the mentally ill (in 1878), and also opening of a hospital for eye illnesses in a separate, adapted private house near the Military hospital (today the space between the Municipal Assembly building and Courthouse).
- February 1889 – Weiss md Ignac, director of the hospital, makes a detail report of the condition and the work of the hospital. Due to medical, but also humane reasons, according to the director, it is necessary to conduct the reconstruction of the hospital or start building a new object.
- February 1890 – Lazar Mamužić, the mayor of Subotica, lays out a plan for constructing a new hospital in the pavilion type to the members of the City Board.
- June 1890 – it is decided that the new hospital is to be built on the location between so called Šandor Gate and suburb region Šandor.
- Start of 1891 – Bidding for the construction of the hospital facilities was made. It was planned a total of 160 hospital beds.
- During 1893 – Bidding for the publishing works.
- July 1894 – Hospital Book of Regulations was established.
- September 1894 – it was announced that the hospital would not be finished in the anticipated deadline.
- October 1894 – A foundation stone for the chapel in the hospital area was placed.
- April 1895 – A new director of the hospital was elected, Wilheim M.D. Adolf, after the death of Weiss M.D. Ignac
- During 1895 – local and state companies apply for construction works involving central heating, ventilation, waterworks, sewage, etc.
- December 1896 – Hospital construction is finished.
- February 1897 – first patients were admitted to the hospital.
- May 1897 – Grand opening of the hospital was made.
- August 1899 – The first science meeting was held in Subotica – 30th Anniversary Meeting of doctors and nature scientists of Hungary.
- During 1902-1903 – ward for surgical illnesses is moved from pavilion F to pavilion C, and ward for eye illnesses is moved from pavilion C to pavilion F.
- During 1903 – doctors request extension of the ward for internal illnesses (pavilion D) for the reasons of separate placement of patients with tuberculosis.
- During 1903 – another floor was added to pavilion F (Ward for eye illness)
- During 1906 – continued building on pavilion K (Ward for the mentally ill)
- Year 1911 – hospital has 410 beds
- During 1912 – first holecystenectomy was preformed, first abdominal hysterectomy and other surgical procedures.
- During 1914 – X-ray machine was bought for the hospital.
- February 1919 – M.D. Paja Ivković-Ivandekić was elected director of the hospital
- During 1921 – hospital is in bad financial situation and its work was difficult.
- During 1927 – hospital financial situation is again concerning.
- During 1929 – talks were held about turning over the management of the Town Hospital to the management of Province in Novi Sad.
- During 1930 – it is determined that the work done in the hospital is on exemplary level despite the difficult financial situation in the past years. Work in the Surgical Illness and Birth Ward dominates, lead by M.D. Dušan Malušev who is known to European expert public.
- During 1934 – Book of Regulations for the Town public Hospital was issued.
- November 1937 – construction work completed on the pavilion for gynecology and obstetrics.
- December 1939 – opening of the ORL Ward.
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