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of old age, and 1.5 per cent to drink. On an average, from
40 to 45 per cent of the money expended for relief is given in
the form of medical assistance or nursing. Only about 30 per
cent is given in the form of money. Idleness or any attempt on
the part of a man to shirk the work of providing for himself and
his family, may be punished with imprisonment, or detention in a
workhouse according to the sentence passed. Workhouses,
principally for field-work, are to be erected by the state in sufficient
numbers.

Great exertions are now being made to check vagrancy, partly
by legislation, partly by private agency (labour colonies).

        

WORKING-MEN’S DWELLINGS.



As 1910, or 54 per cent of Norway’s factories (with 48 per
cent of the day’s works of all factories) are in the country, where
houses are easily obtained, the working-men’s dwellings question
plays a comparatively unimportant part. It asserts itself most
strongly in large towns, especially Kristiania, where building-land
is exceedingly dear. Here private companies have in some degree
attempted to meet the want, and the municipal authorities are
engaged in building three small blocks of artisans’ dwellings,
besides special dwellings for some of its regular workmen.
Furthermore, in Kristiania, a few years ago, the workingmen’s [[** NB her ute bindestrek!]] dwellings
were subjected to a careful sanitary examination. The dwellings
then proved, to a great extent, to be greatly overpopulated.
Since then the sanitary conditions have improved. There are
now few cellar appartments, and still fewer that have only 1 room
and kitchen. A special functionary is appointed under the Board
of Health, whose duty it is to examine the artisans’ dwellings,
and try to remedy their defects. The increase in house-rents of
late years, owing to the rapid growth of the town, gives, however,
cause to fear that the question of dwellings just now presents a
less favourable aspect.

By various parliamentary resolutions, 2 ½ million kroner
are placed at the disposal of the municipalities, to be lent to
persons without means, for the erection or acquisition of houses
of their own (House-loan Fund). By resolutions of 1894 and 1895,
500,000 kroner are also placed at the disposal of the municipalities

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