Bács-Kiskun megye múltjából 23. (Kecskemét, 2009)

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The great event was realized owing to Mihály Lászlóffy'

s hard work and whole-hearted enthusiasm. Luckily, every step of the event's organisation can be followed from Mihály Lászlóffy's correspondence containing 540 letters. It is also a great historical document as it shows an idealistic man's efforts for the community. He was determined and spared no pains to make a sacrifice for the others and organised a celebration with 200 people without asking for help of anyone. JÁNOS KEMÉNY THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT ON THE GREEN CROSS DAY OF HEALTH ARRANGED IN BAJA ON 11 OCTOBER, 1942 (SOURCE PUBLICATION) On 11 November, 1942 dr József Karossá Pfeiffer, the chief medical officer of municipal borough of Baja, made a report on the Day of Health arranged in Baja on 11 October, 1942. The report was addressed to dr Béla Johan, Under-secretary of State, who was also the president of the National Health Care Association. The 19page report treats in details with the antecedents of the event, the idea of organising a Day of Health, the preliminary negotiations, the difficulties of purchasing the necessary food-products, the applied publicity, connecting the employees of Green Cross Health Care Service and kindergarten teachers with the work, informing the students, assuring that crowds of participants will take part in the event. Besides the above mentioned things it describes the programmes of the Day of Health, the basic principles of the organisational work and how to involve the local society in the organisational work. It also mentions the used prices, competitions and other entertaining programmes, the collecting charity activities, the unification of the event, how to keep hygiene on the fair, and last but not least the financial results reached during the event. The report also defines the number of the popular celebration's participants, the commerce of the pavilions, the sale of pretzels, the recommendation of the goat's milk, the risks of the fair, the selection of the Day of Health's date, the amateur photography, the health competition, and at the end it draws conclusions from the day. The source publication is an interesting historical value. It obtains an insight into the greatest charitable event of a Hungarian frontier town called Baja during World War II or rather between the two World Wars. It shows typically the publicity of the time and health circumstances and their strength of mobilisation masses. Information can be received from the monograph on the food-administration and supply problems during World War II. The organisation and the arrangement based on the collaboration of the whole society are exemplary. The publication's message to the today's people: the most important thing is to save our health.