Life-Histories for Nineteenth-Century Swedish Hospital Patients: Chances of Survival

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The life histories of nineteenth-century Swedish hospital patients challenge the notion that hospitals were mainly occupied with the "industrious poor," and gives some support to the idea that hospitals were "death-traps." The latter idea is reviewed through an examination of the treatment of various diseases and of the life expectancies after dismissal in comparison with the life expectancies of people who never had to enter a hospital. The study underlines the imporiance of looking closely at the diseases patients suffered when we undertake to evaluate the role of nineteenth-century hospitals.

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