"Hiralnice” were institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries that cared for the poor, old and weak people who were terminally ill or could no longer take care of themselves. The people who lived there, for the most part had no income of their own, no assets and no relatives who could take care of them and pay for their care home fee. That is how the cost of care home fees became a burden of the municipalities that were responsible for these people. In this diploma thesis we focus on the development and purpose of “hiralnica”, in continuation we describe the care of the poor within the municipality of Celje, how the funding was handled and what were the municipality’s financial problems in funding them. Archival sources were of great help to us in providing us outline of the state of Celje and its people from the end of the 19th century to the thirties of the 20th century. That is followed by the history of the “hiralnica” in Vojnik, were we can get an idea of their care homes with the help of the analysis of the mortuary book from the “hiralnice” in Vojnik, between the years 1924 and 1935, which gives us information on the number of the deceased, their ages and their legacies.
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