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240 III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SWEDEN.
Table 39. Hospitals and, asylums for lunatics.
At the end of Places at hospitals and asylums. Ditto per 100,000 inh. Average for the years Lunatics attended to.1 Days of
maintenance. Lunatics admitted. Cured. Dead. Expenses Kronor.’
1860 .... 1,008 26 1861/65.... 1,064 388,406 309 125 79 327,4®
1865..... 1,241 30 1866/70.... 1,211 441,933 330 138 77 400,MD
1870..... 1,322 32 1871/75.... 1,382 504,482 376 146 80 514,789
1875..... 1,513 35 1876/80.... 1,603 585,050 423 135 93 682,786
1880.... 1,991 44 1881/85.... 2,026 739,538 657 219 114 921,253
1885..... 2,257 48 1886/90.... 2,416 882,016 741 258 125 1,020,850
1890..... 2,625 55 1891/95.... 3,285 1,199,110 1,035 255 163 1,421,911
1895..... 4,259 87 1896/00.... 4,240 1,548,164 955 270 197 1,819.976
1900..... 5,070 99 In 1900... 4,458 1,627,025 1,252 235 212 2,129,605
According to the latest statistics, there are for medical attendance
to the community at large 145 hospitals, 73 of which are Län- and
Lock Hospitals (the latter being a division for venereal diseases) and
72 other establishments for the sick, containing altogether 9,114 beds,
being one bed for every 564 inhabitants. For the increase in the
number of beds since 1860, as well as for details concerning the
extension of care for the sick, see Tables 37 and 38. — One hospital, situated
in the parish of Järfsö in the län of Gefleborg, is exclusively set apart
for lepers, of whom, however, only about 60 exist in Sweden.
With regard to the expenses attendant on the care of the sick (the
lunatics not included), we are informed that these at Län- and Lock hospitals alone
(apart from the construction of buildings and their keeping in due repair), taking
a yearly average for periods of five years 1861/95, respectively amounted to 0 43,
0*63, 0’84, 1*09, l*3i, 1*45, and 1*81 million kronor; for the year 1899, the
sum reached a total of 2*4 5 millions. The entire expenses, which were defrayed
by the parishes and County Councils, for hygiene and care of the sick (including
buildings) during the quinquennial periods 1876/95, respectively amounted to 2 94,
3*16, 4*17, and 5-27 million kronor, and, for 1899, reached a total of 7 -1
millions, (towards which the parishes contributed 4*6 8 and the County Councils
3-03 millions). To these must be added the outlays by the Treasury, which in
1899 amounted to 1-15 millions. (A krona = 1 • i o shilling = 0’26g dollar).
The treatment of lunatics in its modern form may be said to have
commenced in Sweden in 1830, after which time the previously existing,
scattered asylums by and by became subject to a uniform organization.
It was not, however, until 1877 that the lunatic asylums were placed
under the supervision of the Medical department. Since 1899, there is
a chief inspector specially appointed to superintend the treatment oi
lunatics in the Kingdom.
The statute now in force regarding lunatics, is of 1901; by that, a sharpei
control over public as well as private asylums of the kind in question has been
brought about. On the whole, much has been done during the last decade:
towards amplifying and reforming the treatment of lunatics; for new building;
alone, a sum total of 4 million kronor has been granted by the Riksdag durinj
the last ten years. As shown by Table 39, the number of sickbeds at the publit
1 The number of days of maintenance divided by 365. — * Buildings besides.
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