Point 5. Out-patients’ clinic for poor sick people
Before the war, the Jewish population benefited from the municipal out-patients’
clinic. In addition, in the Jewish hospital there existed an out-patients’
clinic served by medical specialists. As soon as Jews were forbidden entry to the
municipal out-patients’ clinic and to the hospital, the gmina was forced to open
an out-patients’ clinic of its own.⁶¹⁸ For this purpose, a part of the premises of
the orphanage was taken over, disturbing the orphanage in terms of hygiene
and education tasks. The activity of the out-patients’ clinic during the period
from 10 October to 8 December is reflected in the following figures:
Medical examinations in the out-patients’ clinic – 282
” ” ” the city – 65
Various changes of bandages in the out-patients’ clinic – 826
” injections – 12
Injections against infectious diseases – 929
5.75 kilos of cod-liver oil for children were dispensed.
Women in labour are given obstetric assistance.
People who are not well off are given free medication.
Point 6. Housing committee
The committee started its activity on 3 October 1939. A registration was carried
out of all workshops and shops located outside the ghetto, as well as a registration
of the requisition of empty flats in the ghetto. The committee ascertained
that there were no empty flats at all in the ghetto. A large proportion
of the houses were burnt due to the events of the war. The residents settled
into the neighbouring houses. The flats in the ghetto mostly consist of small
flats (of one or two rooms). The number of those looking for a flat is very large.
About 70 per cent of the flats in the ghetto are not fit to live in.
A few characteristic moments: In the bet hamidrash at Sieradzka Street
8, a flat of 8 by 8.75 metres. Four families live there: 26 people, including 20
children. In the bet hamidrash at Zamurowa Street 14, a flat of 1 large room and
3 small rooms. Seven families were quartered there: 40 people. [5] Of them,
three families, 18 people, were quartered in the big room (9.30 by 6.10 metres).
618 In mid–1940, a ban was introduced for Jews to provide medical care to non-Jews, and for non-Jews to provide care to Jews.
