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1100 xvi. labour legislation and social statistics of sweden.
teacher. The children are busied with games, gymnastics, handiwork, drawing,
singing, etc.
Children’s Homes, maintained by the communities and religious bodies, by
societies and private individuals, are met with to a great number in the towns
as well as in the country districts. In Stockholm the largest is the Free Masons’
Children’s homes. In Gothenburg a society called »the Ants» has since 189"
established 5 children’s homes in different parts of the city, with 10 children
in each. The cost for each home is calculated at 3,000 kronor per annum. The
Poor-Relief Board contributes GO kronor for each child. Other expenses are
met by the Society, and by interest on the means donated. The children are
received at an age of 2—4, and are allowed to remain until they are
confirmed. They participate in the instruction at the common school.
In consequence of the mothers having, by work in factories or in other ways,
to contribute to the support of the family, the children of the poorer classes
are often left without any care whatsoever after school hours. The so-called
Workshops (see p. 303) provide a refuge for a great number of these children durin?
some hours of the morning or afternoon, and exercise an educative and elevatins
influence.
In the Östermalm parish of Stockholm, Föreningen Bamavàm (protection
of children) established in 1896, a kind of home where boys that are left
without proper care and attention are received in order to be protected from the
dangers of street-life. They go there directly after school. After a dinner meal,
lessons learnt, and an hour for play, they are kept busy with sloyd,
bookbinding, and easier kinds of handiwork. Before going home in the evening,
they get a meal. In 1902 there was an average of 29 boys per day visiting
this institution. Katarina Bornavärn is the name of a similar institution for
girls, established in 1897 in the Katarina parish of Stockholm. The girls are
given some house-hold work to do. The cost per child a day has been 30 öre (4 d.).
In 1902, 25 girls were received daily. The Mosaic Church in Stockholm has
an institution arranged according to the same plan for boys and girls jointly.
50 children attend daily after school hours, are fed, busied with doing their
lessons, mending their clothes, practicing basket-work, sloyd, and other handiwork.
In Gothenburg there also exists a »Baraavärn», established in 1903 on the same
principles, and receiving 20 children.
As soon as the children commence attending the common school, the poorest
pupils, at least in the capital and the larger towns, are provided with necessary
clothing and shoes and get a sufficient dinner meal. Innumerable societies all
round the country have for their object the clothing of poor school children.
Of these may be mentioned Sällskapet Jultomtarne (Santa Claus’ Society) in
Stockholm, founded in 1870, which every Christmas gives a complete set of
clothing to 200 children. Many societies distributing clothes for newly born
infants are met with both in Stockholm and the smaller towns.
Of låte one has begun to see the necessity of also doing something for th*
rising generation. The young, who atlhe age of 13—14 have closed their
common-’ school education, and in consequence of that are left in too great a freedom,
are only too often led astray and become demoralized. Sällskapet för
befrämjandet af förädlande ungdomsnöjen (useful amusements for the young), formed
in Stockholm in 1901, aims at keeping the young together and excercising an
educative and elevating influence on those having left the common school. This
society, which consists of local branches — at present 4 — under the direction
of a central Board, has regular meetings with lectures, music, and games;
endeavours to bring about comrade associations; and provides opportunity for gymnastics.
During 1902 the number of children at these socials amounted in the Östermalm
local society to about 300. The two Associations Kristliga Föreningen af Unge
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