THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF THE DANUBE AND ITS EARLY PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES, 1856–1860s
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF THE DANUBE AND ITS EARLY PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES, 1856–1860s

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the context in which the European Commission of the Danube (ECD), aninternational organisation created in 1856 to improve navigation along the Maritime Danube, started toimpose its own public health policies in the Danube Delta region. It established two hospitals and drafteddetailed quarantine regulations meant to balance free navigation and sanitary precautions. The authorsrefer to the organisation of ECD‟s hospitals, how commissioners dealt with their funding, selectionmechanisms for medical staff and the need to build proper medical facilities. The paper also touches onthe moment when in 1865 Sulina was ravaged by a cholera epidemic and the local hospital was put togood use. Eventually, through a Public Act signed by the seven commissioners in 1865, the ECD wasconsolidated as an international organisation and the hospital became a reputed medical centre forhundreds of international seafarers, ECD employees and inhabitants of Sulina, who used the services ofthe first hospital created by an early supranational institution.

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