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TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
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The number of telegram rooms, at the close of 1902, amounted to
555, and that of the telegram receiving-rooms to 82; thus the total
number of offices where telegrams are received for transmission then
amounted to 2,256.
As regards the transmission of telegrams, it may be mentioned that, during
1902, the number of inland telegrams amounted to 1,237,905; of foreign, terminal
telegrams from Sweden to abroad, to 452,065, and to Sweden from abroad, to
519,310; and of transit telegrams to 347,043; or, altogether, to 2,556,323
paid telegrams. Free telegrams (official and meteorological) were transmitted to
a total of 226,428, of which 163,339 were official, and 63,089 meteorological.
The number of paid telegrams which only passed over the railway telegraph lines
amounted, in 1902, to 133,445. Thus the total number of paid telegrams, from
or to Swedish telegraph stations, amounted to 2,342,725, to which must be added
the 347,043 which, via Sweden, were transmitted between foreign countries.
The telegraph fees received by Sweden for the telegrams sent by the
Telegraph Department in 1902, amounted to 1,817,482 kronor, other receipts of the
department came to 40,660 kronor. As the expenditure amounted to 1,586,396
kronor, there was, for that year, a surplus on the income of the Telegraph
Department of 271,746 kronor.
The Telegraph Department, which until April 1, 1900, subordinated
to the Minister of Finances, was from that date placed under the Home
Department. The departmental Board consists of a chief, with the title
of director general, who has the sole right of decision, and four directors
(one for the administrative division, one for the line, one for the
telegraph traffic, and one for the telephone traffic division). Matters of
current business are decided by the directors, each in his department.
The staff is completed by 22 permanent officials and clerks, 14 auxiliary
clerks, and 14 other unestablished assistants, the whole staff of the
Board being 55 officers.
The telegraph office staff at the close of 1902, consisted of 4 directors,
who are chiefs of the four offices (Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, and Sundsvall)
which have day and night service; 66 commissioners, and 312 telegraphists
(whereof 106 males, and 206 females). Offices with all-day service are directed,
as a rule, by commissioners; offices with partial day-service exclusively by female
telegraphists. Thus the total permanent staff amounted to 382 persons. Tbe
unestablished office staff amounted to 90 male telegraphists and 347 female ones.
The whole staff at the telegraph offices thus amounted to a total of 819 persons
(266 men and 553 women). The total number of telegraph messengers and porters
at the offices, was 319 in all.
In order to be accepted as a telegraphist, the applicant must have passed
the final examination of a Higher State College — the university entrance
examination on the scientific line — or must prove himself or herself to be in
possession of a corresponding amount of knowledge, and, moreover, must have gone
through a four months’ course of training at the school of the Telegraph
Department in Stockholm.
For the supervision of the telegraph and telephone service at the
stations, the whole country, with exception of the towns of Stockholm,
Gröteborg, Malmö, and Sundsvall, is divided into four traffic districts,
each with a telegraph inspector at the head.
Sweden. 64
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