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428 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
in the prifon, is keeping the offender on bread and water, but this is never for a greater
fpace of time than eight and twenty days, as it has been proved, that in fo cold a cli
mate, there would be danger of culprits perifhing in cafe of longer abftinence from
fubftantial food, a matter more neceflary in the North, than in warm, or even temperate
climates.
Cuap. VIl.—Ho/pitals and Mad-Hou/és.
THE hofpital or lazaretto at Kongfholm, is capable of containing one hundred and fifty
fick, forty-fix of which are maintained gratuitoufly ; the reft pay two rix-dollars per
month, and fix if they have an apartment to themfelves; when we faw it it contained
no more than forty-nine patients; they always fleep by themfelves. The funds of the
hofpital are no more than 40,000 rix-dollars Rik/ens *; the fick on their entrance are
clothed in the linen and drefs of the hofpital, their own being reftored to them upon
their departure; their linen is changed every week, and oftener if it be neceflary.
‘There is a principal phyfician, who is at the fame time diretor, a fecond phyfician, and
commonly three furgeons; if more be neceflary, the afliftance of the young ftudents is
called for, who attend the hofpital for inftru€tion. The anatomical theatre is at Ridder-
holm, and the fchool of furgery in the South; thus do thefe-eftablifhments form pre-
cifely a triangle, which appears to us a poor contrivance. ‘The internal maladies, which
are moft common, are inflammatory fevers; there are many cafes of the venereal dif-
eafe, and hemorrhoidal fiftulas: thofe afflicted with the venereal difeafe are below in
a fpecies of cells, the men fcarcely feparated from the women ; falivation is {till very
frequently ufed here. The meat in the hofpital is good, the bread tolerable, every
thing very decent, and nothing further; the ufe of ventilators, other than fans, is
unknown to them; there is at the .door a box, in which it is cutomary to drop fome
money.
Eyes hofpital. "This is fituated nigh the north fquare, in a private houfe ; it is an
eftablifhment on a very {mall fcale, which has yet its ufes, and which poflibly may be the
caufe of a larger inftitution of the fort being one day founded; indeed many Swedes at
Stockholm are ignorant of its exiftence ; and fo little accuftomed are the attendants to |
the vifits of foreigners, that we were obliged to negociate a long time before we could
ain admittance, they conceiving that we wifhed to throw ridicule on the inftitution.
The eftablifhment confifts of eighteen beds for gratuitous patients in three chambers, and
two for women unwilling to be known, and who are not fuffered to be feen. ‘Thefe
latter pay for their beds 4 rix-dollars per month, and maintain themfelves. The King
pays 3 copper dollars daily for each woman who comes to lye-in here; but this only
for nine days, at the termination of which fhe muft leave the hofpital, unlefs the be too
weak, in which cafe fhe is kept till fhe recovers ftrength. In this houfe there are born
yearly from three to four hundred children. ‘The bedfteads are of iron, with a {mall
one at hand for the infant, two feet and a half long by. eighteen inches wide, covered
with the fame fheets and blankets as the larger. Ifa nurfe be wanting, fhe is engaged
at an office for this purpofe, There is only one midwife in the houfe, whofe falary is
s0 rix-dollars: the country women come hither to praétife, and pay for entrance two.
rix-dollars 20 fkillings to the College of Phyfic, remain there for three months at their
own expence, and on their departure pay for their diploma a rix-dollar and a half.
The profeffor gives two leffons weekly, and the provolt private leflons, whiclt the wo-
* Notes which lofe about 12 per cent. in change againft fpecie.
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