Public Health at the Mouth of the Danube in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This paper analyzes the European Commission of the Danube (ECD) attempt to provide its sanitary vision, on a modern basis, in an unhealthy area. The need to impose a public health policy at the mouth of the Danube was given by Sulina's position as the gateway to Europe, subject to intense transit that brought with it mobility of the disease. Doctors Jellinek, Vignard, Petrescu Hagi Stoica, were some of the pillars that formed the basis of the formation of this health policy, which through their work and observations, made Sulina has known worldwide, not only in commercial importance but also in health. The epidemic waves, but also the doctors' findings, led to the construction of adequate medical facilities. Starting with 1878, after the involvement of the Romanian authorities, combining the social model with the medical one, a series of measures are adopted, which confers a new dimension of public health at the mouth of the Danube