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private social activity.
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various nationalities as well as for female students, at the low cost of 50—65
kronor (£ 2s/i à 36/io) a month. It is especially intended to be a refuge for such
teachers out of employment or who, owing to ill-healtb, are in need of rest. This
home was opened in 1894. In 1902, among those accommodated at the home
may be mentioned 16 of foreign extraction; at the end of the same year the
assets amounted to 36,140 kronor. Expenses in connection with this home are
defrayed partly by means of annual contributions from those interested in the
movement, and partly from the accrued interest on donations received.
Stiftelsen för gamla tjånarinnor (Institution for old women-servants) was
established 1883 in Stockholm with a capital of 130,000 kronor, and provided a
home for 12 aged servants, while an annual pension of 100 kronor was paid out to
26 servants. This institution now commands its own house, where accommodation
is provided for about a hundred aged servants. Food is not provided in the home,
but opportunity is given for cooking in the kitchens. In 1900, the annual pensions
amounted to 12,321 kronor, and the capital, which has been steadily augmented by
donations, amounted at the end of the same year to 630,440 kronor. In Gothenburg
there is a smaller home for women-servants and a society which gives pensions to
servants unable to prosecute their calling through old age or sickness. The society
grants pensions to about 300 persons and its capital amounts to 625,000 kronor.
Stockholms Sjömanshem (Sailors’ Home), which stands under the personal
patronage of King Oscar II, was opened in 1891 and has since then been enlarged
several times, and at present owns two properties holding altogether 93 rooms
and 179 beds. This home is intended to be a refuge for Swedish as well as
foreign sailors during their stay in Stockholm, and besides has an asylum for
aged and invalid Swedish sailors. The English parish in Stockholm supports
special reading and writing-rooms for English sailors at the premises of the home.
The charge for board and lodging is rso—2*25 kronor (l2/3 to 2Vs sh.) per day;
40—55 kronor (£ 2-2 à 3) per month. For lodging alone, the charge is 50 öre
to 1 krona a day (7 à 13 d.), or 10—20 kronor a month (11 à 22 sh.). During
1902, the home accommodated 5,221 sailors of 22 different nationalities.
Stock-holms sjömansmissionsförening (Sailors’ mission society) has a fine building at
Värtan harbour outside of Stockholm, where there are reading and writing-rooms,
and where tea-evenings, Divine service, and lectures are held. In Gothenburg
there is also a Sailors’ home, called Sjömanssållskapets hem, established in 1837,
which in 1900 moved into new premises and is partly intended for captains and
sailors. This home has besides for its object the supporting of sailors in need,
sailors’ widows and children, and boys who are studying seamanship, also helping
them to get their first equipment. In Karlskrona, the naval port and arsenal of
Sweden, there is a Skeppsgossehem (Home for Ship-boys), which provides a refuge
for such boys during their leisure hours, and consists of large writing and sitting
rooms, as well as a library.
At several places in Sweden asylums and infirmeries have been established
for inebriates, of which the principal are Sans-Souci, a little to the north of
Uppsala, and Eolshåll, near Stockholm, the former being opened in 1891, and
intended for the working classes; and the latter in 1897, where 75 — 125 kronor
(£ 4—7) a month is charged. As a practical counteraction against drunkenness
automatic machines for warm milk, invented by Miss Valborg Ulrich, have been
adopted. The undertaking, initiated in 1902, consists in erecting such machines
at market-places, wharfs, and other places where the working classes congregate,
and from them a mug of warm milk can be obtained upon putting 5 öre (2/s d.)
in the slot. There are now 6 warm milk automatic machines in Stockholm, and
one at each of the towns of Gothenburg, Karlskrona, Sundsvall, and Örebro. At
one of the automatic machines in Stockholm 31,372 mugs of milk were supplied
in 1903 in the course of 142 days.
Sweden. 70
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