[The forestry doctor and the lumber camp people]

In the beginning of the last century there were many accidents in Norwegian forestry, and doctors in the rural districts made great efforts to improve the work environment. District physician Otto Mejlaender (1865-1944) in Trysil was a pioneer. He was actively involved in educational work, wrote articles about the working conditions in the forests and work accidents. The papers refers to various injuries that occurred during work in the forests and how the layman should attend to them. It describes the poor conditions in the lumber cabins, the long and tiresome working day, and the illnesses these activities caused. A summary is also given of an article written by Mejlaender in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association in 1906, in which he presents a somewhat unusual case of a young man who damaged his testicles.