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HYGIENE AND CARE OF THE SICK.
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lians which accordning to statistical returns, numbered in the year 1912
altogether 502, comprising 80 hospitals proper (with a large number of
special wards for venereal and mental diseases), 78 cottage hospitals, 186
hospitals for epidemic diseases, reception home for the feeble-minded, 56
for consumptive patients, 29 private hospitals and nursing homes; 10
children’s hospitals, 2 children’s homes and 4 seaside sanatoria for children;
4 convalescent homes, 2 institutions to receive emergencjr cases, 11 lying-in
hospitals, 18 hospitals at charitable institutions, 11 infirmaries for
incurables, 1 alysum for lepers, and 6 homes for inebriates; the total of
sick-beds is 25 560, being in the proportion of one every 220 inhabitants.
Photo. g. Lindquist, Stockholm.
Operating Table, constructed by A. Stille, Stockholm.
Expenses for the care of the sick in hospitals proper, cottage hospitals, and
those for infectious cases have increased year by year, and public records show
that in 1912 they amounted to 10"os> million kronor, or 2’66 kronor daily per
patient. Besides this there is the outlay on new buildings and extensive repairs,
amounting in the same year to 1’75 million kronor. These disbursements included,
the daily cost per patient has risen to 3’ii kronor. The revenues of the aforesaid
institutions amounted in the same year to 11’9 millions, largely made up of
private payments, and grants from county councils, to the extent of 8’7 millions
(for larger communes by the communal authorities 3’i), payments by patients 2’7,
and in a less degree, 0’09, from contributions, donations, gifts etc., and a State
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