Study title

The statistics of the public health system in general provide the following constitutive object areas: population, medical and support personnel, medical facilities as well as mortality and morbidity of the population. Objective of the study is to create a data collection on statistics of the public health system that encompasses longer time intervals in the form of time series as complete as possible based on annual value and with its variables cover the significant sub-areas of the public health system. Project 1, supported by the German Research Society (DFG) = ´Historical statistics of the public health system in Germany from the early 19th century to the present-day´; processors: Walter Kohler, along with Gudrun Kling, Roland Otto and Hartmut Haegle; project 2, supported with funds from the Federal Employment Office (BfA) = ´Information system on medical statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany´; processor: Ralph Kube (s. ZA Study Nummer 8134). The projects belong to the main focus program ´Sources and Research on Historical Statistics of Germany´. Topics: The data material is organized in the form of time series (1824-1938) according to regions (s. research area) and the following variables: 1) medical personnel: doctors, surgeons, pharmacies, dentists, midwives; 2) general hospitals: number of institutions, number of beds, all totaled, public and private, free provider; 3) number of patients cared for in general hospitals of the German Reich 1870-1913: together, public and private hospitals, free charitable hospitals, separate according to male and female patients cared for.