Department of Pathology and Fingerland Institute of Pathology

The department of pathology was one of the hospital pavilions completed during in the first stage of the new district hospital’s construction in the spring of 1926.

The pavilion’s basement housed a laboratory, a warehouse, and morgue. On the ground floor, there was a dissecting room with an elevator, as well as laboratories for bacteriology, serology, and histology. The department of pathology, an archive, and a museum of specimens were also located there, along with kennels for experimental animals. The pavilion had a separate entrance. In 1940, the building underwent modification and an extension.

Dr. Antonín Fingerland (1900‒1999) served as the head of both the department of pathology and the infectious disease ward. In 1932, the infectious disease ward was incorporated into the internal medicine department.

Construction within the hospital complex continued after WWII. In 1945, following the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, the department of pathology was reorganized as the Institute of Pathological Anatomy. Between 1947 and 1948, an annex was added to the institute, providing a lecture room with 120 seats, a histology laboratory for student exercises, and two additional laboratories. The completion of the expanded complex was documented by Dr. Fingerland. In 1967, the pathology department underwent further reconstruction and expansion, which included the addition of a tissue bank. In 1992, the institute was officially renamed the Fingerland Institute of Pathology.

Today, the Fingerland Institute of Pathology provides necropsy, biopsy, and cytology services, with a focus on cardiovascular pathology, haemato-lymphopathology, head and neck pathology, dental pathology, gynecopathology, as well as thyroid, kidney, and breast diseases.

The pavilion is one of the few buildings designed by Prague architect Bedřich Adámek in collaboration with architect Václav Rejchl Jr. as part of the overall planning of the hospital complex. The modern pavilions, characterized by flat roofs, large windows, and smooth façades, represented a completely new approach to hospital architecture. The pathology department, originally a symmetrical two-story building designed specifically for its function, featured a central raised wing divided by large, high windows without chambranles.

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Monument Preservation

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Sources

Státní okresní archiv Hradec Králové, Archiv města Hradec Králové 1225–1945 (1949), Zdravotnické záležitosti, inv. č. 2334, karton č. 554
Státní okresní archiv Hradec Králové, Obecní úřad Nový Hradec Králové, inv. č. 117, karton č. 14
Státní okresní archiv Hradec Králové, Okresní úřad Hradec Králové 1850–1945 (1954), dodatek, inv. č 1705, karton č. 1510

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