THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 884, sig. 110-7/46

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aa DeL KALaIOL conditions were accommodated as well as possible that there was no failure on the part of the serving sister that the child was operated on in good time and that further progress was taken care of in a proper way, i.e. - as is customary for infants - it was transferred to the children's hospital for the control of the general condition. The surgical wound was on 23,25,28. 2.) On 20 August 1943 the child was admitted to the children's hospital, which was at the stage of relocation. Therefore, the order was made that all new admissions should be omitted during this period. With explicit reference to the existing difficulties associated with relocation,the child was admitted to the children's hospital after the operation and because he had a fever to spare the way home,with the restriction that it could only be a few days to observe the chairs and that the child had to be transferred to the ear clinic during the move. The parents asked to refrain from this and requested the child's release with instructions for the care of the child by the mother herself. As the ear clinic approved an outpatient transfer of the baby, the child was released from the children's hospital on 24 August 1943.The nutrition regulations were given in writing,the preparation of the food described in detail. When the child was released, it was fever-free to have his digestion in order. The mother was advised to seek further advice in the children's clinic at the further outpatient treatment in the ear clinic. On the day of the relocation of the children ́s clinic on 30.*ugust 1943, the mother came with the child in the newly opened out ambulans of the new children ́ hospital. Since the child's reception seemed to be required because of bad chairs, the first bed was prepared for the child. A conscious exception was made, because it was a German child and an old patient. The mother was particularly pointed out in the re-inclusion of the hospital's current plight. Through massive therapy and self-sacrifice care (evidence table), convulsions and collapses of the child were reduced in the observation station. It is intended to take in all seriously ill newly admitted children and to prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases in the clinic. As from now on the child prospered well, it was transferred to the corresponding ward. After the early good hours deteriorated, the diet was converted to protein milk. In spite of all precautions (see observation station), the child was in contact with an introduced diphtheria. After the hospital director had been told, there was never a complete avoidance of immovable infectious diseases in a child's clinic. The children in contact, including the child Preidl, were then isolated and received passive protection by Hammelserum. The two children transferred with the child Preidl were released healthy after the incubation and healing of their original disease process. The child Predl suddenly fell ill within hours of diphtheria contact with a conspicuously fever-free Di-Krupp, which, despite a renewed serum dose, deteriorated and required tracheotomy. After a short improvement, however, the fatal outcome. The director of the clinic has reported on the individual complaints made by the complaint leader about the treatment in children's medicine.