Ukrainian Hygienic Society

Ukrainian Hygienic Society (Українське гігієнічне товариство; Ukrainske hihiienichne tovarystvo). An organization established in Lviv in 1929 to educate the community and improve the general level of hygiene. Mariian Panchyshyn was the founding president and a patron of the society. With branches in most of the larger towns and circles in the smaller ones, the society organized popular lectures, exhibitions, first-aid courses, and courses for nurses and sanitary workers. It also published articles, leaflets, popular pamphlets, and the popular magazine Narodne zdorovlia (1937–9). To improve the general level of health it maintained clinics, tuberculosis dispensaries, a tuberculosis sanatorium in Hrebeniv, sports and eugenics consulting centers in Lviv, and vacation facilities for young people, including a climate station in Pidliute. Its activities came to an end with the Soviet occupation of Galicia in 1939.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]