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Children were assured consistent, high-quality nutrition for the duration of their stay at the summer camps. In this photograph, children are gathered at lunchtime in the dining hall at a camp located in Rabka.

In the interwar years, those overseeing the welfare of children and youths made it a priority to provide them with recreational activities during the summer. Each year, a relatively small number of children—mainly those under special care of the…

This delousing facility was but one of many in Łódź at the time of the First World War. Official policy required boys and men being treated at such facilities to have their heads shaved. Here we see this service rendered by a man in medical garb.

This building, constructed before WWII for use by the Łódź's Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych), numbered among the most elegant edifices in Bałuty at the time. Above the modernist framework we can see part of a large inscription: THE ŁÓDŹ SICK FUND. At…

At the Institute for Physical Therapy children were exposed to light treatments using UV lamps. Here eight young patients stand in a circle, their bare chests illuminated. Three large specialized lamps provide the source of light. The children are…

World War I was a difficult time for Łódź inhabitants. Food and supplies aid for the poorest residents was overseen and coordinated by local government—initially by the Main Citizens' Council and later by the City Hall and City Council. These local…

During the interwar period, two buildings in a complex of the "Tivoli" factory formerly used to house workers' families were given to the Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych) for its use. This photograph features the dispensary unit, where two nurses are drawing…

A dentist's office providing services under the auspices of the Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych). In the photo, female dentists treat two women reclining in dentist's chairs.

In front of the Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych) building at 225 Wólczańska Street, three men, each wearing an oprychówka (a flat cap typical of the day), take a patient on a stretcher out of an ambulance car.

This photograph was taken in front of the Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych) building at 225 Wólczańska Street (formerly the family residence of workers at the "Tivoli" factory). A man and a paramedic sit in an open ambulance car with registration number LD…