[Health status during the occupation years--from a family practice at Laksevåg].

Patient records for the period 1940-46 from a "double" family practice at Laksevåg near Bergen were analysed in order to study the occurrence of different diagnoses. The main diagnoses from 8,025 consultations were processed. The panorama of diseases seems to be dominated by infectious diseases and injuries. These complaints were more frequent than in similar records of practice 30 years later. By comparison, cardiovascular, psychiatric and musculosceletal diagnoses were much more rare. On average, the patients were younger than those described, in the records from 30 years later.