[More from the archive of district medical officer Lauritzen].

A letter to Lorenz Lauritsen, Medical Officer of Health, written bky Frits Clausen, M.D., general practitioner, head of the Danish Nazi-party before and during the second world war.

[The Danish health service in southern Schleswig -- the first difficult years].

The Danish Health Service in Sydslesvig was started in September 1945 south of the Danish border for the Danish minority because of the need for well organised medical care. It was two brothers from Copenhagen, both doctors, Emil and Martin Vermehren, who took the initiative to start this work. It quite quickly became obvious, that the administration was too extensive for the two doctors so that in 1947 the Danish Medical Director Johs.