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iii. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SWEDEN.
In case of epidemics or contagious diseases, the Board can call upon the
official physician to visit the spot and order proper measures, or the Board reports
on the outbreak of a contagious disease to the Governor, who issues orders to
the official physician. In times of epidemic, the Board has a right to forbid
large gatherings of the populace, such as at fairs and so on, and to inhibit,
for long or short periods, attendance at school etc.
Every doctor is bound to inform the authorities of any cases of the following
infectious diseases occurring in his practice, viz. cholera, small-pox, typhus, typhoid,
scarlet-fever, diphtheria, dysentry, leprosy.
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Every parish is bound to have a sick-ward or some such place for isolating
infectious patients. New hospitals for epidemics have been built in most towns,
and such are also to be found in country districts, but less frequently. Every
person suffering from any of the above mentioned infectious diseases is bound by
law to submit to be treated at an epidemic hospital.
If a case of epidemic be treated in the patient’s home, the latter must allow
certain measures of disinfection to be taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
At hospitals, which have disinfecting ovens, all means of disinfection deemed
necessary are taken. There are water-works with good water in all the larger
towns, and also in a great number of the smaller ones. The water-supply
is taken from lakes, rivers, or wells. In the larger towns, there is a thorough
system of drainage. Both in the towns and in the country, the greatest
cleanliness prevails, the maintenance of which is subjected to proper inspection.
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