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is about 14 % of the total death rate. As it is usually young persons who are
attacked by the disease, it is easy to understand what a fearful part tuberculosis
plays even in our country. In the fight against it, the Swedish National Society
against Tuberculosis has since the year 1904 done very serviceable work. This
society which carries on an exhaustive work in the way of enlightenment, and
supports practical anti-tuberculosis work has during the most recent years
especially interested itself in the prevention of tuberculosis and in work among the
children. Besides dispensaries which have been found in Sweden since 1905,
the National Society against Tuberculosis has even founded homes for children
threatened with the disease, and has supported colonies for them out in the
country, among others the settlements, started by the Abstinence Association of
Swedish Students (S. S. U. H.), for healthy children coming from infected homes.
By these visits to the settlements it is intended to strengthen the children so that
they have a better chance of conquering in the fight against tuberculosis in their
own homes. In this way or by some other means, e. g. by taking the children
from their homes at the earliest age possible (preferably at their birth, if the
parents are already consumptive), to try to prevent tuberculosis must be of the
greatest importance. The settling of the dwelling-house problem ought also to
give good help to the anti-tuberculosis work. During some years a Royal
Commission has been at work arranging a united programme for our anti-tuberculosis
work in the future. This will pay the greatest attention to the prophylactic
anti-tuberculosis work, especially among the children.
It is of especial importance that when reforms are close at hand, the general
opinion should be led in the right direction through educational means. This
work of educating the people is supported by large grants from the state, and
consists of lectures, circles for study, public libraries etc., during recent years it
has done a great deal towards raising the people. The work of enlightenment
has embraced the most widely separated subjects even including medical and
hygienic lectures. In regard to the position taken by the workers towards eugenic
questions, the following quotation from a recently published pamphlet (General
information on educational work), given out by the Worker’s Educational Union
(A. B. F.) is significant: »Our educational organisations must not stand any longer
either, as strangers towards physical training. One must learn to understand that
all mental advancement is impossible in the long run, without one has good
human material to work upon. The mental culture must be complemented by
bodily culture — — —. Those who have the arrangement of lectures ought to see
that the subjects of race-biology and eugenics, personal and social hygiene, and
other branches of physical education are taken up very extensively. These subjects
are also especially suitable for the circles for study.» Among the popular lecturers
on all that belongs to these subjects Professor Lundborg stands in the first place,
he has carried on an inclusive work by means of popular lectures and phamphlets
in medical hygienic, and before all in race-biological and eugenic subjects.
Several other University professors have also treated these subjects popularly.
The temperance movement has most certainly been a powerful lever in the
spreading of social knowledge and in waking a sense of social responsibility in
the Swedish nation. During recent years the Temperance Societies have more
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