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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
Deaths from Small-pox.
Per million inhabitants.
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Ar 1750 60
With the exception of somewhat more than 400, who have exclusively devoted
themselves to private practice, the number of physicians appointed to attend to the
needs of the community at large is: 338 for rural districts, 163 for towns, 257
for hospitals (among them 33 at consumptive hospitals), 58 for State Lunatic
Asylums and Homes for the mentally afflicted, 43 for the Prisons, 99 for the
State Railways, etc. It is here to be observed that in cases where two or more
appointments are held by the same medical man, they are counted in each
classification; vacant posts are included throughout.
In the beginning of 1913, 195 of the doctors appointed for the country,
vacancies included, were Provincial Medical Officers — together with the
official doctors of the towns, the oldest medical organization in
Sweden —; they are paid exclusively by the State; there are also 143
Supernumerary Provincial Medical Officers, who are paid by the State and the
communes jointly, by the communes alone, or else by private people.
Among the Provincial Medical Officers of each län (the towns of
Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö excepted) there is one who bears the title
of First Provincial Medical Officer, and acts as inspector over the civil
medical service — especially Public Health — in his entire län. The
hygiene and care of the sick in the immediate neighbourhood of his county
town is, in 6 läns, also superintended by the First Provincial Medical
Officer. For their assistance there ore State-appointed Assistant
Provincial Medical Officers — one for every First Provincial Medical Officer.
These six, together with 7 Assistant Supernumerary Provincial Medical
Officers are included above. In the towns there are 163 specially appointed
medical officers for towns and urban districts. — For medical service
in the Army and Navy, there are 175 Military Surgeons and several
hospitals.
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