FROM THE HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL IN DUBROVNIK

Abstract

There are two distinctive periods in the developmen t of hospital services in Dubrovnik. The first began in the 14th century, when a poorhou se was set up to become a real hos- pital Domus Christi in 1540, and lasted until 1888, that is, until a new hospital was built in Boninovo. The Dalmatian authorities paid for the new hospital 200,000 Austrian florins. The new hospital complex in Dubrovnik consisted of five buildings of different sizes. Near the main building there was the uterus, a smal ler building for childbed women; further away there was the solitary for contagious diseases, and still further the morgue, the chapel and the stable. The hospital disposed of 104 beds in eight large ro oms; two midsize and four small rooms for patients whose treatment was paid for by communes or provinces; four beds in three rooms for those who paid for the first cla ss service; six beds in the solitary; ten in the uterus; fourteen for newborns and six for we t nurses in the maternity section. The doctors who worked there and who deserve specia l mention are: Roko Mi{eti}, Jere Pugliesi, Emanuel Luxardo, Ivan August Kazna~i}, An te Bre{an, surgeon Kobli{ka, Dr Neumar, and Dr Martinis. Since 1878, fourteen si sters of the order of St Vincent de Paul had worked there. From 1888 to 1919 the hos pital was under the supervision of Land Committee of the Kingdom of Dalmatia whose seat was in Zadar.