Areopolisz történelmi és társadalomtudományi tanulmányok Szerkesztők

Emőd Veress:
The Romanian Constitution of 1948

In this article the author deals with the problems of the dictatorship of the proletariat in Romania, in the force period of the Constitution of 1948. The author analyses the constitutional and legal status of the state institutions, the position of the Romanian Labour Party, being the possessor of absolute power, and the system of basic and minority rights. The conclusion: in Romania there existed an oppressive order, assisted by the USSR.

György Vofkori:
The Hospital of Odorheiu-Secuiesc

This study treats the history of the sanitary system of Odorheiu-Secuiesc from its beginnings till the World War II. The oldest institutions established with the aim of curing were the homes for the aged. The ravages of the plague made most of the cities establish an old people’s home. The first charity home for the poor in Odorheiu-Secuiesc was established in 1703. Sources mention that between 1717 and 1719 there were already homes against the epidemics, places where recovering and healing already existed. The first entrepreneurs of this kind were the surgeons, physicians and the barbers, who with their however low knowledge brought an important contribution to the development of the sanitary system of the town. In the seventh decade of the 19^th century the first “hospital” was established in Odorheiu-Secuiesc. Its activity was just a bit above the simplest sanitary processes. The will to create a hospital, which should correspond to the new demands, appeared in 1878, but for its appearance the city inhabitants had to wait for another decade. The construction started in 1885 and the inauguration of the institution, which had two buildings happened in 1887. Under the guidance of the new hospital superintendent, Dr. Domokos Imreh, the hospital had a new epoch of development, through which it earned a well-deserved status in the city as well as in the county. The new hospital superintendent introduced the operations, assured the sterilizer equipment, accomplished the water supply through the pipes of the city, and fitted up the hospital’s area.

Between the two World Wars this hospital remained the base of the sanitary system of the town. A new phase in the hospital’s development was that of the establishment of the medical consulting-rooms by the social insurance, and a third was the accomplishment of the private surgeries. This study presents at the end the restoration efforts after the World War II.

* A tanulmány a Faludi Ferenc Akadémia támogatásával készült.