Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 66-68. (Budapest, 1973)

TANULMÁNYOK - Székely Sándor: Az 1876-os közegészségügyi törvény előkészítéséről (angol nyelven)

Part I. Public Health Measures First Division. State Health (domestic health affairs) Section 1. Regulations for the preservation and maintenance of health; 1. General measures to promote the vigorous development of the people, 1-37; 2. Protective smallpox vaccination, 38-48; 3. Public sanitation and hygiene, 49-58; 4. Inspection of victuals, means of nutrition, drinking water and other beverages, 59-66; 5, Rules on commerce of poisons, their keeping and use, 67— 74; 6, Rules relating to building and housing conditions, 75-84; 7. Measures on personal safety, 85-93; 8. Procedures with the corpses and its burial, 94-110. Section 2. Rules and Institutions to Recover Health: 1. Public nursing, 111-118; 2. Inspection of therapeutic and public baths and mineral waters, 119-126; 3. Hospitals and therapeutic institutions, 127-136; 4. Lunatic asylums, 137-143; 5. Pharmacy and pharmaceutics, 144-152; 6. Epidemics a) Human epidemics, 153-167; b) Animal epidemics 168-173; 7. Syphilis and other contagious diseases, 174-180; 8. Aid in case of accidents, 181-185. Second Division. International Health (Foreign Health affairs) 1. Conferences and agreements on international health affairs, 186-191; 2. Sealing the borders and quarantine measures, 192-195; 3. Inspection on foreign traffic, 196-200. Part II. Public Health Organs Section 1. Public Health Organs in General: 1. Physicians and medical education, 201-210; 2. Pharmacists, 211-221; 3. Midwives, 222-224; 4. Procedures of public health organs (public health chambers), 225. Section 2. Organs for the execution of the Public Health Law: L The scope and tasks of the community as a public health authority, 226-239; 2. The scope and task of the district or municipality as a public health authority, 240-250; 3. The scope and tasks of the Minister of the Interior (Government) as the supreme central public health authority, 251-253. Section 3. Judiciary public health authorities'(organs)

: 254-256. Part III. General, Provisional and Special Measures in Regard to the Violation and Adequate Execution of the Public Health Law Paragraphs 257-260. As the information is given in the footnote, the draft bill took over 68 paragraphs from the Minister of the Interior's public health bill without substantial modification ; 78 paragraphs are entirely new, that is they are missing from the ministerial draft; and the rest are altered or amended formulations of paragraphs contained in the ministerial bill. It should be apparent already from the listing of subjects and more so from a perusal of the text that the MOT draft was more or less a combination of a law and its enacting clauses, and even of the local measures. This was probably noe of the reasons why Kálmán Tisza, Minister of Interior after 1875, and later