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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
grant of 0"H, all in millions of kronor. Total payments from communes and
county councils for hygiene and care of the sick (buildings included), according
to calculation, usually amount to about 3 times as much as the afore-mentioned
expenses for the care of the sick in hospitals.
At the end of 1913, there were 18 public independent institutions for
the care of the mentally affected (including chronic cases), with altogether
9 547 places or 169 to every 100 000 inhabitants (in the year 1860 this
was 26, and in 1900, 98, for the same population). The asylum system
has been rapidly developed in the last few decades, and many new places
have been provided, but still more are wanted, if every feeble-minded
person is to obtain proper attention in good time. The extent of lunatic
asylum care is shown in Table 52.
The whole number of lunatics (not reckoning idiots), according to the census
obtained from parish registers and Boards of Health in 1913, amounted to 17 104
or 304 per hundred thousand inhabitants. The number has increased, according
to later investigations, but this may — at any rate partly — be owing to more
exact statistics. The percentage of lunatics in Sweden is not particularly high
in comparison with that of other nations.
At the end of 1913, there were 508 Dentists, 75 of whom were ladies.
The right to practise dentistry is granted to all who have passed their
matriculation and dental examinations. The latter require a time of
• three years at least. The Odontological Institute (of the Caroline
Medico-Surgical Institute in Stockholm), is the home of dental training.
With regard to Midwives, there were at the end of 1912, 3 047,
corresponding to 32-3 for every ten thousand of the female population of the
ages of 20—45 years at the beginning of the year, or about 63 per ten thou-
Table 52. Lunatic Asylums.1
At the end of Places at all asylums Ditto per 100 000 inh. Annually [-Lunatics attended-] {+Luna- tics atten- ded+} to2 Days of
maintenance Lunatics admitted:" Cured Dead Expenses Kronor4
1860 . . 100S 26 1861—65 . . 1064 388 406 309 125 79 327 485
1865 . . 1241 30 1866-70 . . 1211 441 933 330 138 77 400 545
1870 . . 1322 32 1871—75 . . 1382 504 482 376 146 80 514 789
1875 . . 1513 35 1876-80 . . 1603 585 050 423 135 93 682 786
1880 . . 1991 44 1881—85 . . 2 026 739 538 657 219 114 921253
1885 . . 2 257 48 1886—90 . . 2 416 882 016 741 258 125 1020 850
1890 . . 2 625 55 1891—95 . . 3 285 1199 110 1035 255 163 1 421911
1895 . . 4 259 87 1896-00 . . 4 241 1 548164 955 270 197 1 819 976
1900 . . 5 056 98 1901—05 . . 5 037 1 838 518 764 213 208 2 486147
1905 . . 6 328 120 1906-10 . . 6 709 2 448 667 1263 281 309 3 802 346
1910 . . 7 866 142 1910 .... 7 616 2 779 847 1850 405 353 4 439 062
1911 . . 7 872 142 1911 .... 7 899 2 883 118 1593 510 352 4 637 988
1912 . . 9 480 169 1912 .... 8 505 3 112 944 2 730 526 409 5 456 070
1913 . . 9 547 169 1913 .... 9 427 3 440 903 2116 623 484 6066 887
1 With certain reception houses. — 4 Days of maintenance divided by 365. — 3 Not
including the patients admitted from other independent institutions for lunatics. — 4 For
the care of the patients, not including expenses of new buildings and maintenance of
buildings etc.
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