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iii. constitution and administration of sweden.
At the sanatoriums there are during the whole year 320 places available
in all, namely 24 in private rooms at the price of 3’so kronor per day, 72 in
semi-private rooms at the price of 2-50 kronor, and 224 places in the general
rooms, out of which 131 at the price of l’ss kr. and 93 at the price of 0-so
kr. (A krona = 1 • i o shill.). Besides, there are at the two southern sanatoriums
together, suramerplaces to the number of 8 in semi-private rooms and 32 in general
rooms. In case of urgent demand, some few more places can be provided. The
stay at a sanatorium not being intended for a length of time exceeding three months,
about 1,300 people can thus annually be taken care of at these establishments.
With regard to the management of the sanatoria, their chief administration
has been vested in at least 60, at most 80 Directors, selected by the King from
different parts of Sweden; five persons are selected to form the Chief Board for
administering the Jubilee Fund and the Sanatoria. The Chief Board appoints the
Chief Physician and other officials. The narrower administration of every
sanatorium is carried on by a Board consisting of a chairman, elected by the King
for a period of four years, the Chief Physician, and 2 members chosen by the
Chief Board for a period of four years.
In 1897, the Town Council of Stockholm granted 200,000 kronor for
defraying the expenses of nursing at sanatoria certain destitute persons belonging to
the Stockholm community and suffering from consumption. In the same year,
82,500 kronor were assigned for a pavilion at Sabbatsberg Hospital to
facilitate the isolation of consumptive patients under treatment there. Besides, a
pavilion for consumptives has been erected at St. George’s Hospital in the capital.
At Mörsil in Jemtland there is a private sanatorium, which has recently
been enlarged. In addition to these, several smaller sanatoria and places for air
cure have been founded, especially set apart for the treatment of consumption
during the summer months. In a great many parishes, special prophylactic
precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of this disease.
3. municipal administration.
Independent municipal government is carried on in Sweden, partly
by the Läns and partly by the Communities; in both cases, especially
with regard to the latter, there is that marked distinction between
town and country which is such a characteristic feature in Swedish
administration. Here we shall first treat of the Communities.
In former times there were municipal authorities also for the hundreds
(härad) and the villages. At the present day, only a few insignificant remnants
of these exist for the hundreds, mainly in matters relating to roads (vid. the
section dealing with Highways below).
Self-Government of the Communities.
In Sweden, for many centuries, the self-government of the
communities was closely connected with that of the church parishes, and even
at the present, day the areas of the communities are, as a rule,
identical with those of the church parishes, except that the larger towns are
divided into several parishes.
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