[Scabies and syphilis--aspects of treatments of skin- and venereal diseases at Copenhagen Kommunehospital 1863 - 92].

Scabies and syphilis was very common but social unaccepted diseases in the later part of the 19th century. In 1892, 1,210 patients with syphilis and 106 children suffering from scabies were treated at the Kommunehospital in Copenhagen. Case records from patients admitted March 19th and September 19th, form the study basis of different aspects of scabies and syphilis treatment in the period.

[From administrator to laundrymaid - aspects of the conditions of the staff at the Municipal Hospital of Copenhagen (Kommunehospital) after the opening in 1863].

The opening of the biggest and most advanced Danish municipal hospital of its time took place on the 19th of September 1863 in the city of Copenhagen. The hospital had the capacity to host about 700 patients and was equipped with modern facilities such as water closets, electricity, running water and baths. The daily routines at this large institution had to be throughly organized.

[Mrs. Popp - and all the others: the first patients admitted to the Kommunehospital in Copenhagen on the opening day September 19, 1863].

The gates of the Kommunehospital in Copenhagen opened for the first time on September 19th, 1863. It is recorded that on this day 89 patients were admitted to the hospital. These patients have been subdivided according to occupation, their own or that of the family, as it was recorded on admission.