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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
which, by selling a little, artificial flower on the first of May every
year, has collected the means of paying for the care of indigent tuberculous
sufferers, or of fighting the disease in some other way. The idea is of
Swedish origin, has been very productive, and has been adopted by many
other countries.
These figures, taken from the yearly reports of the Royal Medical Board,
are, nevertheless, in a large measure incomplete, especially for the earlier years,
and do not include, for any year, patients received in tuberculosis wards of
charitable institutions. The latter amount, according to the reports just mentioned,
to 120 in the year 1901, with 31 928 days of maintenance, and to 328 in 1912,
with 52 767 days of maintenance; the number of sick places were 120 and 179
respectively.
From more complete reports, the number of places for patients affected in
the lungs, in the spring of 1914, amounted to 3 450 in 60 institutions altogether.
There were 9 summer day-sanatoria, besides, with 272 places; one hospital, with
100 places for children under surgical treatment for tuberculosis, 3 seaside
places, with room for 390 consumptive children, 50 offices for information and
relief, and 3 children’s homes, containing from 67 to 80 places for the isolation
of healthy children taken from consumptive homes. The largest institution is the
Söderby Hospital for patients from Stockholm. Private sanatoria also exist, viz.
three large ones, Mörsil opened as early as 1891, Romanäs and Sävsjö, 1907, and
several smaller ones (included above).
3- LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Local self-government in Sweden is exercised partly by the Counties
(Läns) and partly by the Communes (Kommuner). In both cases,
especially with regard to the latter, there prevails that definite distinction
between town and country which is such a characteristic feature of
Swedish administration. Here we shall first treat the Communes.
In former times there were also local authorities for the hundreds (häradena)
and the villages (byarna). At the present day, only a few insignificant
remnants of these exist for the hundreds, mainly in matters relating to roads (see
the section dealing with country roads). As regards the Assessment
Committees, respective districts generally comprise several communes the respective.
Self-Government of the Communes.
Ever since the introduction of Christianity into Sweden the
self-government of the communes has been closely connected with that of the
church-parishes in ecclesiastical matters; and even at the present day
the areas of the communes are, as a rule, identical with those of the
church-parishes, except that the larger towns are divided into several
church-parishes.
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