HEALTH FACILITIES IN EAST GERMANY 1948 - 1954

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2008
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• Publication Date: March 31, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Fast Germany
SUBJECT Health Facilities in East Germany
1948 - 1954
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRE
This material contains information aM the
National Datsnss of #0 United Sfates~ t .
masnk~ of the Espiona,e Laws, TINe 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorlted
person Is prohibited by law.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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The following table indicates the various public health facilities
in East Germany for the period 1948 - 1954:
1948 1950
1954 .
Hospital beds
173,458 188,
016
1979126
197,477
Polyclinics
polyclinics,
universities
(including general
and polyclinics in
and enterprises)
188
259
327
335
Outpatient departments or 1
dispensaries (aabulatoism)
119
267 28
6 -
Lad Outpatient dispensaries
2
137 25
0 294
Enterprises polyclinics
24
43 6
7 67
Enterprises outpatient dispensaries (1948 and 1950
figures not specified) 144
Health rooms 2
(Gesundheitsstuben)
Enterprises medical offices
(5anitaetsatellel
151
(1948, 1950 and 1953 figures
not specified) 39535
1,482 2,458 3,292 39346
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1. These are insta'lations whore patients may obtain only medical advice and
treatment. These installations have no,facilities for housing patients, as
does a hospital.
2. These are very small installations
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a single roost in the offices of the Dnerseraeister), which are manned
by individual nurses and which only dispense first aid.
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