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HYGIENE AND CARE OF THE SICK. 283
Table 53. Returns of Sanatoria, Hospitals, and Homes for Consumptive
patients.
Year N u m ber Average attended daily No. oil Dec. 31
Received Days of
maintenance Sickbeds [-Institutions-] {+Institu- tions+}
1900 .................. 168 13 368 37 104 1
1901.................. 544 50 429 138 320 3
1902 .................. 839 112 092 307 320 3
1903 .................. 1323 174 16S 477 514 7
1904 .................. 1 294 187 284 513 548 8
1905 ................ 1412 203 361 557 607 11
1906.................. 1877 244 609 670 812 15
1907 .................. 2 450 331 684 909 1064 19
1908 ................. 2 475 354 384 971 1075 20
1909 .................. 2 924 405 794 1112 1 1222 24
1910.................. 3 929 490 675 1344 2198 35
1911.................. 5 409 747 741 2 049 2 634 47
1912.................. 6 523 913 579 2 496 2 816 56
1904, by an annual State grant of 200 000 kronor. An even larger
sanatorium for the people has lately been founded under the same
management as those under the Jubilee Fund, at Spenshult in Halland,
which was opened for patients in 1913. Spenshult was erected with money
voted by the Riksdag in 1909, and it is intended primarily for certain
civil servants. The Riksdag later voted a grant, on certain conditions,
towards defraying a portion of the cost of building and maintaining
consumptive hospitals erected by county councils and communes. For the
achieving of the great task presented by the problem of exterminating
tuberculosis is required, however, not only the vigorous initiative of the
State, but also the keenest interest of the whole people. Though much
was lacking in that respect in the first years of this century, yet in the
present year, 1914, conditions are entirely altered. This change should
be ascribed to the Swed. National Anti-Tuberculosis Association, which
was founded in 1904, and has directed its operations rather less towards
actual treatment of the patients, than towards lectures of physicians,
publications, the formation of local unions for figthing the disease,
experiments in social hygiene in towns and country districts, bursaries for doctors
and nurses and for students of the subject, etc., and so it has spread and
augmented the nation’s knowledge of the importance of the question.
Nowadays, it is embraced with the deepest public interest, which finds
expression in the considerable grants made, or about to be made, by the
larger communes and the county councils for establishing institutions for
the care of tuberculous patients; the zeal with which the work of
"dispensaries" has been taken up witnesses to the same enthusiasm. These
dispensaries have been established in several country towns, besides the
capital, and a plan has been started to erect them on a larger scale in
the rural districts of the northernmost län of the country, too. — Since
1907, another national union has been at work — the "May flower" —
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