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THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT AND LEGISLATION.
At the head of the civil medical board, which is under
the department of justice, there is a director who has a technical
and a legal adviser at his disposition, and also a staff of medical
men and chemists. The country is divided into district and town
practices, whose holders («distriktslæge», in the towns «stadsfysikus»)
have the superintendence of medical matters, attend the sick poor
and the lunatics maintained at the public expense, supervise the
treatment of persons suffering from epidemic diseases, etc. In every
county there is a doctor as the adviser of the authorities in
lunacy matters. This doctor has the chief superintendence of
lunatics maintained at the public expense.
In every municipality there is a board of health
(«sundheds-kommission»), [[** sjk bindestrek]] with the official doctor, or another doctor appointed
by the medical director as chairman. The board is to have its
attention turned to the sanitary condition of the place, and adopt
the necessary measures upon the outbreak of infectious diseases.
Its decisions cam only be rescinded by the king or the
department of justice.
For protection against the introduction of certain dangerous
diseases, such as small-pox, cholera, yellow fever and plague, a
quarantine is enforced upon infected or suspected vessels. The state
maintains a quarantine upon Odderøen near Kristiansand; and in
the sea-ports a quarantine commission is established, consisting of
the board of health in conjunction with one nautical and one
revenue member.
Among other measures concerning medical affairs may be
noticed the act of the 4th June, 1898, by which every corpse,
before burial, must be seen by a medical man, or by two — in
exceptional cases only one — trustworthy persons; and the act of
the 11th June, 1898, by which cremation was permitted in the
country.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Norges officielle Statistik, especially:
Beretning om Sundhedstilstanden og Medicinalforholdene i Norge.
(Rapport sur l’état sanitaire et médical. Résumé en français). Yearly.
Oversigt over Sindssygeasylernes Virksomhed. (Statistique des hospices
d’aliénés). Yearly.
Beretning om de Spedalske i Norge i Femaaret 1891—95. (Rapport sur
les lépreux en Norvège pour les années de 1891 à 1895). Kristiania. 1898.
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