At the end of the 19th century, the organisation of health care districts depended on health care institutions, doctors employed at fraternal funds and industrial plants – the lead mines at Mežica, the ironworks at Prevalje, a coal mine at Leše, and the ironworks of Count Thurn. Under the patronage of fraternal funds four hospitals operated in the heavy industrialised Mežica valley. Following the adoption of the Carinthian provincial health care act of 1884, which governed health care at municipal level, the Mežica valley witnessed the establishment of two health care districts.
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The problem of alcoholism and reception of the theory of progressive degeneration in Slovene psychiatry at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century Alcohol became a drug that spread among the population. Alcoholism as a social disease threatened the physical and mental health of individuals and the entire nation. While excessive drinking was most often connected to brain damage in drinkers, it also posed a threat to their progeny. The saddest consequence of alcoholism was ethical and moral degeneration of drinkers.
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