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that they are calculated to educate good seamen, and thereby benefit 
navigation and supply experienced sailors for the navy—are certainly 
exaggerated; and, as the experience of Norway and Great Britain fully 
proves, are by no means real. 
Tjérn, February 12, 1878. 
AXEL VILHELM LJUNGMAN. 
IT. 
THE CARE OF THE SICK ON THE COAST OF BOHUS-LAN DURING THE 
HERRING FISHERIES. 
To the, Committee of the Gottenburg and Bohus-lin provincial parliament 
for regulating the care of the sick in these provinces : 
In view of a notice from the committee, in the papers, the undersigned 
ventures to lay before the members of said committee a plan (in briefest 
outline) for regulating the care of the sick onthe coast of Bohus-lin, more 
especially during the expected great herring fisheries. 
The large number of persons who, during great periodical herring 
fisheries, gather in that portion of the coast where the fisheries are car- 
ried on, the majority of whom are strangers unaccustomed to the mode 
of life and climate of our coast during the cold season, are therefore 
more liable to diseases than the natives. This circumstance certainly 
deserves the attention of our sanitary authorities. It should be borne 
in mind that the number of strangers who visited our coast for a greater 
or less period during the most productive season of the last great — 
herring fisheries is supposed to have been about 50,000 (see Handlingar 
rordnde sillfisket + bohuslinska skdrgdrden, Stockholm, 1843, p. 11). In 
Norway, where, till within about ten years, there have been similar 
large herring fisheries, special physicians were appointed to attend the 
sick on the coast, and sick-houses or hospitals were established at va- 
rious points along the coast. But as the Bohus-lin herring fisheries 
(as far as we can judge from former fishing periods) are mainly car- 
ried on in a much more limited stretch of coast which is more densely 
populated, and where the fisheries therefore are much more concen- 
trated than is the case on the west coast of Norway, the care of the 
sick during the fisheries could with us be easily combined with the 
permanent and general care of the sick on our coast. This might be 
done in the following manner: In the first place, the physicians in the 
sea-ports of the province and in the town of Lysekil should attend to the 
sick in the neighborhood of these places, and new district physicians 
should be appointed for Zjérn and the southwestern coast of Orost, and 
stationed near Kyrkesund (or Hallsbdck). These should only be in- 
creased by one or at most two extra physicians during the fishing sea- 
son, who might be stationed in suitable places on the coast, or on the 
