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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
The public arrangements for the care of the sick are at a very high
level in Sweden. They are, principally, in the hands of hospitals of
which a considerable number are now to be found. The first real hospital
exclusively intended for the cure of bodily ailments, is the Seraphimer
Hospital (Serafimerlasarettet) in Stockholm, which was opened in 1752.
Hospitals were soon founded in other towns, too, and it was ordered by a Royal
rescript of 1765 and 1776, that county hospitals, provided with separate
sick-wards for venereal diseases, should be established all through the
kingdom. The superintendence of these was entrusted to the Seraphim
Order, but in 1859 and 1864- it was transferred to the Collegium medicorum,
the present Royal Medical Board.
In every län, the county councils have established hospitals — according
to the hospital regulations of 1901, containing 25 sick-beds at the least
— and they have been placed each under the direction of its own governing
body. By the statute mentioned, towns which lie outside county council
areas lie under identical obligations. The closest supervision it there
exercised by the communal Boards of Health, which constitute the
governors of institutions of health in every parish; they can also appoint, if
they think good, special sub-governors.
The care of the feeble-minded in the kingdom is also regulated by a
special statute — the present one came into force in 1901. This duty was
performed in days past by institutions endowed with munificent
donations, but it is now incumbent only upon the State, although several
parishes have founded their own asylums, which, nevertheless, remain
under the control of the Royal Medical Board.
There are State hospitals — apart from asylums, and (connected with
them) institutions for the reception of the feeble-minded, and the Lunatic
Asylum at Långbro (for which see below) — hospitals for the care of civi-
Table 51. Hospital Returns.1
Annually Mean population Annual number of Per 1 000 inh. Days of
maintenance per individual admitted Dead out of 1 000 admitted
Sick
people admitted Days of
maintenance Dead [-Admitted-] {+Admit- ted+} Days of
maintenance
1861- -65 . . 3 993 000 23 043 841 960 1526 577 211 36-5 66-2
1866- -70 . . 4 166 000 28 342 1 103 040 1876 6-80 265 38-9 66-2
1871- -75 . . 4 274 000 30 551 1 162 520 2 403 7’15 272 38-1 78-7
1876- -80 . . 4 500 000 33 399 ’ 1 280 631 2 233 7-42 285 38-3 66-9
1881- -85 . . 4 605 000 42 245 1 525 260 2 643 9-17 331 361 62-6
1886- -90 . . 4 742 000 49 592 1 648 574 3 069 10 46 348 33-2 61-9
1891- -95 . . 4 832 000 60 400 1 910 454 3 673 12’50 395 31-6 60-8
1896 -00 . . 5 032 000 75 989 2 366 594 4 234 1510 470 311 55-7
1901- -05 . . 5 214 000 86 608 2 632 217 4 661 16 61 505 30-4 53-8
1906- -10 . . 5 406 000 106 564 3 217 970 5 827 19-71 595 30-2 54-7
1 Hospitals (for civilians and services), cottage hospitals and the Hospital for Epidemic
Diseases in Stockholm included, but not lying-in hospitals, children’s hospitals, and lunatic
asylums; from 1901 civilian hospitals only, cottage hospitals, and hospitals for infections
diseases are included here.
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