Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Social conditions

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114 everywhere else. Of hospital charges met by the societies one-fourth is refunded by the government up to an amount not exceeding 75 aurar for each member, Sickness insurance in Iceland is voluntary, and each society fixes for itself the annual premium payable by its members, which must, however, be so large as together with the State grant to be considered sufficient by the government to meet the expenses against which the members are insured. So far only eight sickness benefit societies have been formed (all n towns and villages) with a total membership numbering 3700. SANITATION The Head of the Medical Profession, the landlaknir (surgeon-gen- eral), has the general care of all matters of public health. The country is divided into 48 medical districts with as many go- vernment-paid doctors; but there is besides them a number of medi- cal practitioners and specialists, especially in Reykjavik. The public medical officers, besides practising as ordinary physicians, which is their chief occupation, are also required to safeguard general hygiene; take steps for the prevention of epidemic diseases; and keep the land- leeknir informed concerning the sanitary conditions. In almost every parish there is a trained midwife who, as a rule, is also entrusted vith the work of vaccination, Though the development of hospital service in Iceland has been very slow, several districts (and municipalities) have now small gene- ral hospitals, partly maintained by the State; but so far a private in- stitution in Reykjavik, owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph, has had to do duty for a State-owned hospital; this want will, however, soon be redressed, for the erection of a public hospital, equipped for gene- ral complaints, will be completed this year (1930). Of hospitals for special diseases there are the following, all in the neighbourhood of Reykjavik: A hospital for lepers (60 beds), built in 1898, and donated to Ice- ‘and by the Danish 1.O.O.F. Leprosy was formerly a very common disease in Iceland, and in 1896 there were 236 patients, while at pre- sent there are but 30—40; an Asylum for mentally unsound persons, a State institution, built in 1907 and greatly extended in 1929 (130 beds); a sanatorium for tuberculous patients (150 beds), erected by a private society in 1910 and taken over by the State in 1916. A law of 1921 concerning tuberculosis provides free nursing for tuberculous

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