[The isolation hospital on Katten in Bergen].

In 1864 the Board of Health in Bergen, Norway, feared that an epidemic of smallpox might break out in the city. A house on the bastion Katten (Norwegian for "the cat") on the Fredriksberg fortress was adapted and made a provisional smallpox hospital. Later on it also served as a cholera hospital during a minor cholera epidemic in 1873, and as an isolation hospital for patients suffering from scarlet fever.

[Hospital records from the cholera epidemic in Bergen 1848-1849].

During the great cholera epidemic in Bergen in 1848-49, three cholera hospitals were established. Records from the three hospitals have been found and studied. Of the 1,024 cholera patients in the city, 707 were hospitalized, and of these 430 (60.

[Cholera hospitals in Bergen].

As early as 1831 premises for a cholera hospital were discussed in Bergen, but no decision was taken. On the same day that Bergen was declared to be cholera-infected, i.e.

[The Board of Health and its activities during the cholera epidemic in Bergen in 1848-49].

In Norway temporary regulations were issued for control of cholera. An important provision was that Municipal Boards of Health should be appointed. The author describes the duties of the Board of Health, and how it functioned during the cholera epidemic in Bergen in 1848-49.