Rad stalnih bakterioloških stanica na teritoriji današnje Republike Srbije, 1919-1925.

Abstract

Up until 1919, the work of bacteriological stations on the territory of modern-day Republic of Serbia was sporadic. In the period immediately after the Great War - from the establishment of the Department of Hygiene within the newly founded Ministry of Public Health in 1919, until the beginning of the work of the Central Institute of Hygiene at the end of 1924 - a network of permanent bacteriological stations and epidemiological institutes was created in a relatively short period of time systematically covering the territory of the entire country. With its mobile auxiliary units, this network soon started producing results. Although permanent epidemiological service in Serbia started as a branch of the wartime military medical service in spring 1915, it was the civilian institutions of the newly established Ministry of Public Health after the war that prevailed in supressing infectious diseases.