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guard vessels which are generally ordered to these waters during that 
season. In the second place, new sick-houses, or at the less important 
fishing stations so-called sick-rooms," should be established, where the 
sick find better care than in their accidental and often narrow and 
inconvenient dwellings. Such sick-houses should be established in 
(1) Grebbestad, (2) Lysekil, (3) Kyrkesund, and (4) Marstrand.™ If 
the fisheries, as was the case during the greater portion of the last her- 
ring period, should principally be carried on on the southern and central 
portions of our coast, a sick-house would be required, at least during the 
fishing season, in some place on our southern coast; the most suit- 
able place for such a sick-house, or at least for a physician during the 
fishing season, would be Kal/sund, or, if a railroad should be constructed 
to the southwestern coast of Hisingen, someplace on that coast.2. The 
sick-bays or rooms in the above-mentioned places could easily be at- 
tended to by the resident physicians for a comparatively small compen- 
sation. 
As the herring fisheries, however, are as yet so little developed, and 
as their future is uncertain, in the beginning only the adoption of such 
measures can come into question as would be of decided benefit and are 
positively demanded by the circumstances. Among such measures we 
must here mention the appointment of a district physician, to be sta- 
tioned at Kyrkesund, and the establishment of sick-rooms near Grebbes- 
tad, Lysekil, Kyrkesund; even the general demand for sick-houses would 
thereby be fully met for a long time to come. An essential condition 
for the carrying out of these measures will be that the expenses are 
kept within reasonable limits, and that the physicians stationed in the 
_respective districts would attend the sick-rooms, so that there would be 
no necessity for appointing special physicians. If, however, the most 
northerly of the proposed sick-rooms should be established, e. g., in 
Fjellbacka or some other place far from any resident district physician, 
it might be necessary to appoint an extra physician. Under all circum- 
stances, however, it should be considered whether the establishing of 
the three above-mentioned sick-rooms would be more advantageous and 
would benefit a larger extent of coast than a larger sick-house with a 
special resident physician in some place between Uddevalla and Strém- 
stad. 
As regards the appointment of an extra district-physician for Tjérn 
and the southwestern coast of Orost (i. e. a district having a population 
17 See C. GRILL: Om sjukvdrden pad landsbygen, Hedemora, 1869. 
18 In case one or severat railroads should be constructed, at whose terminal points 
on the coast the fisheries would naturally be concentrated, these points would also 
be the most suitable places for establishing sick-houses or sick-rooms, or for stationing 
physicians. 
It is to be regretted that, in view of the possibility of great herring fisheries in 
the near future, the quarantine buildings at Kdnsé have not been transferred to the 
coast of Hisingen, as they would have made excellent hospitals during the fishing 
season. 
