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POOR-RELIEF. 297
Table 58. Relief of the Poor.
Annually Mean population Persons enjoying parochial relief Per 1000 Inta. Expenditure Kronor
Direct Indirect Total In all Per inta.
1876- -80 . . 4 500 000 150 894 52 726 203 620 452 7 377 000 1’64
1881- -85 . . 4 605 000 162 418 61280 223 698 48-6 8 656 000 1’88
1886- -90 . . 4 742 000 172 233 64 706 236 939 50’0 9 535 000 201
1891- -95 . . 4 832 000 181 813 71847 253 660 52-5 11 613 000 2’40
1896- -00 . . 5 032 000 176 906 65 607 242 513 48-2 13 367 000 2’66
1901- -05 . . 5 214 000 174 998 59 899 234 897 45-1 17 043 000 3’27
1906- -10 . . 5 406 000 176 707 57 291 233998 433 22 234 000 411
1910 5 499 000 178 934 57 984 236 918 43l 24 267 000 4-41
1911 5 542 000 180 485 58 379 238 Stt4 431 24 551 000 4’43
1912 5 583 000 183 650 60 365 244 015 43-7 26 856 000 4’81
children and educational establishments, and 2 222 smaller cottages for the poor,
which were assigned as dwellings for a number of paupers.
Poor Law Unions were 2 506 in number the same year: of these 2 377
belonged to country districts, and 129 consisted of cities and boroughs. The
population amounted to 5 604 192, of which 4 141 768 were rural, and 1 462 424
belonged to towns and boroughs. The total of those in receipt of relief was 244 015,
of which 146 361 belonged to country parishes and 97 654 to towns and urban
districts. Recipients of relief amounted relatively to the mean population to 3’52 %
in the country, 6’86 in towns, and 4’37 on the average for the whole kingdom.
The number of persons in receipt of relief grouped under periods of five years
since 1876, is shown as an average in table 58, which also sets out the cost
of poor relief during the same time.
Statistics dealing- with this subject in Sweden go back to the year
1805; they have existed in their present more developed form since
1874.
The poor law ordinances now in force do not, in many respects, satisfy
the demands of a rational system. In the course of years the Riksdag has,
on various occasions, voted for an alteration of a paragraph here and
there; but in 1907 a revision of the whole law was petitioned for, and, as
a result of this, a Royal Committee was appointed; the commission is still
at work, but its report may be expected in the near future.
B. Private Benevolence. During the centuries which elapsed after the
reformation, before a definite poor law for the whole country was set
up, a number of institutions were developed, which may be indicated as
transitional forms between public and private enterprise. In the 16th and
17th centuries, the State, or the reigning sovereign and his family, without
the co-operation of the parishes, erected homes for the aged and the sick
and for the care and education of children, and these establishments were
maintained by the founder and private benefactors together. Among
such places there are still in operation a great number (cf. a couple of
oppended illustrations: Home for the Aged, Enskede, and Danviken Home,
near Stockholm).
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