Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge.

  • Legge, Sir Thomas Morison, 1863-1932.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    of the duties of a medical officer of health at home with, in addition, some of those of a police surgeon. But the same demands cannot be made on his time as is the case with a medical officer of health in this country, as he is paid only ^45 a year. In addition, four medical experts are charged with matters included under the term “medical jurisprudence,” such as the making of post-mortems in cases of death raising suspicions of foul play, etc. In other parts of Prussia the Kreisphysikus (the name given to the Medical Officer of Health in country districts) combines this with his other duties. A sanitary commission, which forms, for all practical pur- poses, a part of the first division of police, is occupied with the investigation of the death returns and the notifications of infectious disease. Although questions of public health, therefore, enter very largely into the consideration of the city authorities, the machinery for carrying out the various measures seems exceedingly complicated, but as far as one can judge it appears to work smoothly enough. Municipal There can be few more finely situated town Hospitals. h0Spit;a]s than those of Moabit, Friedrichshain, and Urban, all of which have been built since 1870 by the Corporation, and are under its management. The first consists of thirty pavilions, with a total of 900 beds, stand- ing in about twenty acres of nicely laid out gardens ; the second of thirteen solidly built brick pavilions, with 700 beds, standing in twenty-three acres of ground; and the third, opened as recently as 1890, with 600 beds. The cost of building the last named was nearly 150,000. The erection of another similar town hospital, to be situated in the northern part of the city, is under consideration. In the wards everywhere there are as few dust and dirt collect-
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