Incursione nel quotidiano sanitario del Bihor tra il 1920 e il 1948.

The end of WWI, the dismantling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Great Union determined an upward unitary development in all fields of activity, compared with previous periods. This paper presents the evolution of the health care assistance and of the pharmaceutical sector through the interwar period to the nationalization (1920-1948), as well as the main legislative regulations. In this period, there was real progress in Bihor county in the development of Romanian medical science, the health care legislation improved, hospitals and nursing homes were built, the number of sanitary circumscriptions increased, the number of pharmacies increased, and the supply of medicinal products improved etc. The pharmaceutical sector included urban and rural public pharmacies, clinic and hospital pharmacies, and hand pharmacies for emergencies. The fundamental act issued in this period was the health care and protection law of 1930, with long-term provisions, valid until 1944. In spite of all the progress recorded in those years in the protection of health, the documents of Bihor county's Health Service and Protection show a high frequency of contagious diseases, due to social-economic conditions and the population's low level of medical culture, especially in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]