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pension funds.
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beyond the places where they are established; such is the case, among others, with
the Royal Navy Pension Fund, Karlskrona, and the General Widow and Orphan
Fund, Gothenburg (2,020,190 kronor).
With regard to respective cash balance at the close of 1895, the funds are
summarized as follows: 29 funds with less than 10,000 kronor each; 60 funds
with 10,000 to 50,000 kronor; 26 with 50,000 to 100,000 kronor; 45 with
100,000 to 500,000 kronor; and 20 with more than 500,000 kronor, of which
14 exceeded 1,000,000 kronor. From the following statement will be seen within
which classes of society the funds operate:
No. Capital in 1895.
of Funds. Kronor.
For persons in civil service (including clergy and common-
school teachers)..............................................................................................48 55,828,998
» Military men............................................................................................................17 11,444,987
> Persons in the employ of the commnnities..........................13 2,744,695
» Persons employed by private railway and tramway
companies..............................................................................................................14 2,482,701
. Tradesmen..................................................................................................................12 2,435,754
• Manufacturers and Artisans....................................................................11 876,436
> Seamen (excepting the funds of The Seamen’s Re-
gister Offices).....................................................15 639,641
» Factory hands........................................................................................................13 274,305
> Persons of other trades................................................................................18 3,481,595
General funds..................................................................................................................15 14,439,255
Fnnds within private societies........................................................................4 136,355
Total 180 »4,784,722
Some information respecting the work of all the funds during 1900 will be
found in Table 166.
Space does not allow of a more detailed report for the special funds, as for
instance the amount of the fees, terms on which pension is granted, the amount
of the pensions, etc., but in such questions reference may be made to the brief
particulars given about some of them in the respective divisions above.
As previously mentioned in this work, no public institution for
workers’ pensions has been organized in Sweden. On the initiative
of the State, the pensioning of one body of workers not in its
service, namely the Seamen, has, however, been arranged. For this
class there exist two pension funds, the one in connection with the
Seamen’s Register Offices (Sjömanshusen), to which the members pay
their fees in order to obtain pensions for themselves and their families;
the other is the Merchant service Pension fund, which is exclusively
supported by the State. A report respecting these institutions has
been given previously (page 973).
In connection with this account of pension funds strictly founded
on the self-help principle may also be mentioned many private
benevolent funds which, as a rule, have been established through individual
philantropy for the bestowal of pensions upon needy persons, without
their having had to contribute themselves. Including the Merchant
service Pension fund, there existed in 1895 no less than 750 similar
institutions, which during the same year rendered support to 27,821
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