[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 (60.8 per cent) died. Overall, slightly more women than men were admitted to hospital. The women were older than the men but the mortality was the same. The Christi Krybbe hospital had the oldest patients but the lowest mortality. The staff probably acquired more experience at Christi Krybbe, which was in action during the whole epidemic, and the nursing may have been better there. The mortality in the hospitals reached a peak during the first weeks of the epidemic and later decreased considerably.