[The medical staff of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in World War I].

The development of the Imperial and Royal Navy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire begun in 1868 being based on the structure established by Admiral Wilhelm Tegetthoff. The number of staff-doctors of the Navy did not prove enough for the needed sanitary measures. The permanent lack of doctors however was compensated by the expertise of the medical staff During the WWI, three land hospitals and one hospital-ship operated in addition to the doctors working on the single units of the fleet In spite of the constant problems, caused by the lack of trained doctors the health service of the Imperial and Royal Navy proved to be sufficient.