Roslagstull Hospital ( Swedish: Roslagstulls sjukhus) is a former

isolation hospital A fever hospital or isolation hospital is a hospital for infectious diseases such as scarlet fever and smallpox. Their purpose is to treat affected people while isolating them from the general population. Early examples included the Liverpool ...

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, situated in the

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close to Roslagstull in the northern part of the inner city. The hospital was founded in 1893 as Stockholms epidemisjukhus and closed in 1992. Six of the former hospital buildings were preserved. Today, most of the former hospital area and preserved buildings have been incorporated into the

AlbaNova AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm Center for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology is a "research and education initiative run jointly by the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University." Currently represented subjects include phy ...

university centre which is jointly operated by

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and

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History

The

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operated an

in ''Katarina kronobränneri'' in

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since the 1820s, but developments in medicine created a need for more suitable buildings. The City Council voted on 28 March 1890 to build a new isolation hospital on the Albano Hill north or the city, which was found to be sufficiently isolated from the city proper. The buildings were arranged into symmetrical rows, designed by city architect

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and opened on 18 September 1893. The hospital was initially designed to accommodate 175 patients, but was extended several times over the course of the years. In 1907, the hospital had an administration building with apartments for staff, a kitchen building, ten separate wards where every ward was designed to operate independently, with separate staff and equipment, an observation ward, laundry, desinfection and drying facilities, morgue, stables, desinfection reservoir and a night guard house. The hospital was in operation from 1893 to 1992. It was mainly used for patients with infectious diseases such as

diphteria Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium '' Corynebacterium diphtheriae''. Most infections are asymptomatic or have a mild clinical course, but in some outbreaks more than 10% of those diagnosed with the disease may die. Signs and s ...

scarlet fever Scarlet fever, also known as Scarlatina, is an infectious disease caused by ''Streptococcus pyogenes'' a Group A streptococcus (GAS). The infection is a type of Group A streptococcal infection (Group A strep). It most commonly affects childr ...

smallpox Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus) which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) c ...

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and

cholera Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. Vomiting and ...

. In the 1980s the hospital was also used to treat the first

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patients in Sweden. The name ''Stockholms epidemisjukhus'' was changed to ''Roslagstulls sjukhus'' in 1966. After the closing in 1992 some of the original hospital buildings were preserved. Most of the former hospital area is presently in use by AlbaNova University Centre, opened in 2001, which is jointly operated by

and

. Some new buildings have also been erected since the hospital closing, including the AlbaNova main building by architect

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. Presently the area is also home to the

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research institute, the science education centre ''Vetenskapens Hus'', the senior care facility ''Kattrumpstullen 5'' and the Engelska Skolan Norr independent school. The former hospital area was used in the 1990s and early 2000s as a filming location for ''

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'' and ''

Beck – Sista vittnet ''Beck – Sista vittnet'' (English: ''Beck – The Last Witness'') is a 2002 film about the Swedish police detective Martin Beck directed by Harald Hamrell. Cast * Peter Haber as Martin Beck * Mikael Persbrandt as Gunvald Larsson * Malin Birg ...

''.

References

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