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total number of deaths reported by medical men. The extent of
the disease is different in the various parts of the country, and in
the various age-classes. In the first years of life, and between the
ages of 20 and 30, the predisposition appears to be greatest, and in the
latter of these periods 57 per cent of all the deaths reported are due
to tuberculosis. After the age of 40, the predisposition and mortality
seem to diminish gradually. It has been calculated that deaths from
tuberculosis between the ages of 15 and 60 occasion a loss of
labour-power [[** sjk bindestrek]] worth at least 28,000,000 kroner annually, and that a sum of
about 1,000,000 kroner goes annually towards the nursing of the
patients, including food, lodging, attendance and actual medical expenses.
Attention has of late years been more and more drawn
towards the increasing spread of tuberculosis. A government bill for
adopting measures against the disease has been brought before the
Storthing, and a sanatorium has been erected exclusively for
tuberculosis patients.
Leprosy (lepra, elephantiasis) is at present of minor importance.
Even towards the middle of the century, its increase was
considered alarming. But the careful counting of the lepers since
1856 has shown the favourable result that the number has
decreased from 2870 in 1856 to 2263 in 1875, 1470 in 1885 and 688
in 1895. This happy decrease is certainly mainly due to the
exhaustive measures taken for the isolation of the sufferers. It was
therefore possible in 1895 to close two of the four government
hospitals for lepers. Of the 688 lepers then remaining, 328 were
at home in their districts, while 360 were nursed in the hospitals.
Most of the lepers are now, as formerly, found in the
coast-provinces from Stavanger to Tromsø.
The number of lunatics at the last enumeration in 1891 was
7749 or 3.88 per mille of the population. Of these, 2431 or 1.22
per mille were idiots from birth or early childhood. Congenital
lunacy is found to have increased until 1855, then rapidly decreased
until 1865, while since that time it seems to have been stationary
or at any rate to have increased only slightly. The acquired mental
maladies increased slowly up to 1865. During the succeeding 25
years the ratio has risen from 1.86 to 2.66 per mille, an increase of
as much as 43 per cent, a fact which is calculated to rouse attention.
In the latter half of the last century and part of this, the
malady called radesyge was very prevalent in this country, whereas it
very seldom occurs now. It may be considered certain that it was
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