PMID: 11639443Jan 1, 1993Paper

The hospital in Lund during the 1850's

Sydsvenska medicinhistoriska sällskapets årsskrift
E Lindstedt, E Dahlquist

Abstract

At the Hospital in Lund a new central building was opened in 1850 bringing the total number of beds up to 150. In the same year the hospital was divided into one "External" department including surgery and the maternity ward and one "Internal" including medicine and the ward for venereal diseases. We reviewed the patient charts and the yearly reports from 1851 to 1860 including 40 autopsy reports from this period. During these years, 8,785 patients were admitted, 2,292 of these for syphilis. Mean hospitalization time in the surgical department was 55-60 years, average 35-45 days, in the medical department a mean of around 45 days. The longest hospital stay was 350-900 days, mostly for patients with joint diseases, probably mainly tuberculosis. The number of patients admitted each year, the number of hospital days, age distribution of the patients and costs are presented in diagrams. The mean age of the patients was around 28 years, and the largest 5-year group was 16-20 years. Syphilis, various manifestations of tuberculosis and different kinds of diffuse gastric trouble were dominating diagnoses. Infectious diseases were common and serious during these years, but only very few patients, apart from the diagnoses mentioned above...Continue Reading

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