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Department for ear, throat and nose diseases .................................................... Department ophthalmic diseases............. Private wards open to all departments ..

28 beds

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49 » Total number of beds.. . . 1,022 beds

The average floor space per bed is 7.7 sq. metres, the air space 33.9 cub. metres. The hospital covers an area of 7 hectares. In addition to the above-mentioned departments, the hospital includes a Rontgen department, a surgi­ cal, a medical, and a nerve out-patient department, bathing and massage establishment, and out-patient departments for skin and venereal diseases and for ear, throat and nose as well as ophthalmic diseases. Situated on the hospital site there are houses for permanent officials, including a special home for nurses. At the head of each of the eight departments is a senior physician or surgeon. Pursuant to the regulations of the Faculty of Medicine, the senior physicians and surgeons of the two medical and two surgical departments give bed­ side lectures to the medical students. Furthermore, the senior physician of the department for mental and nervous diseases is appointed by the university to give clinical instruction in, as well as theoretical lectures on psychiatria. At the Kommune Hospital, as in all the other hospitals controlled by the metropolitan municipality, the nursing is in the hands of nurses who have been trained in the hospitals themselves.