Registration card of the Warsaw-Bialystok Medical Chamber

Collection Główna Biblioteka Lekarska im. S. Konopki
Description Janusz Korczak's doctor registration card representing the Warsaw-Bialystok Medical Board. This document contains the following information: personal particulars, nationality, faith, medical specialisation, main sources of income, personal address, military status, previous immunizing illnesses, marriage status, biography, list of academic publications. The birth date given is 22 July 1879. This is the first known document featuring this date. At present, it is assumed Korczak was born in 1878. This date is unclear due to omissions made by Józef Goldszmit, Henryk's father, in the way his son's birth certificate was filled out. The address given is that of the Orphanage, at No.92 Krochmalna Street. And yet we know Korczak had moved out from there at the start of the 1930s and was living together with his sister, Anna Lui, at No.8 Zlota Street. The same address as is found on the registration Card also appears in an administrative register of doctors from 1938. The registration Card only lists typhus exanthematicus as an immunizing illness. Korczak had contracted typhus during the Polish-Bolshevik war. He was looked after by his mother, who caught the illness and died. The Medical Chambers at the time, set up in 1922, were managed by local councils. The Warsaw-Bialystok Medical Chamber was one of the first to be set up. In order to be admitted it was necessary to present a diploma, pay a fee and complete a registration card.
Date [1938]
Rights Główna Biblioteka Lekarska
Format image/jpg
Language pol
Identifier PL\327\1\0\1570
Type dokument

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Public project co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland "Public Diplomacy 2020: New Dimension” funding programme.

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