[The history of the first Jewish hospitals in Pest]

Author tells the story of the first Jewish hospitals in Pest (Budapest). The first Jewish hospitals were founded at the end of the XVIIIth century. In 1808 the permanently growing community hired a building for the hospital. Its first director was Fülöp Jakubovics. Since the building soon proved to be narrow, the Jewish community decided to get hold of an own house. After some delay caused by the lack of money and the bureaucratic leadership of the town, the hospital opened its gates in 1840, in the presence of the Palatine of Hungary, Joseph Hapsburg. The staff of the new hospital consisted of eminent physicians of the era: Fülöp Grósz, Bertalan Stiller, Gyula Böke, Adolf Hermann, Adolf Szili etc. In 1889 a new modern hospital was build in the Gyár (today Szabolcs) Street: At the beginning of the 20th century this hospital belonged to the most developed and most effective health institutions of the region. In the fifties the hospital was "socialized": nowadays the Faculty of Health-Sciences of the Semmelweis University is to be found in its building.