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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
By various donators a number of different funds were also founded, and
from them help is still given to a great many people, often in the form of
pensions. Many of the gratuities are small, and owing to the decreased value
of money and the increased pretensions of our own day are mere doles, not
seldom hampered by wonderfully minute regulations as to their distribution, but
many of them are, even when compared with present conditions, of considerable
help to the recipients.
rhoto. O. Ellqvist, Stockholm.
Home for the Aged, Enskede.
During the first half of the 10th century, very few institutions of the
aforementioned character were founded. On the other hand, associations for the
purpose of giving assistance in one way or another are beginning to appear.
On the whole, it seems that, during this period, things waited passively on the
result of the expected legislation for poor relief. When that at last took a definite
shape, it was clear to the public that private operations were very desirable in
combination with those established by law.
In the latter half of the same century, active organization of every kind
of institution prevailed, and associations were formed to assist those who, in
various ways, were in need. At last, in the last decades of the century, it
became a clearly necessary task to systematise the confusion of activities and
to establish co-operation among them, and between them and the poor law. At
the same time, it became clear that the prevention of distress was more urgent
than the attempt to mitigate it, and that to prevent distress was the only way
to be able at some future time to get rid of it altogether.
Institutions for helping the aged and infirm were, as before, considered the
most indispensable: Homes for respectable poor and for aged servants were
started in several places, as well as larger or smaller Hospitals for incurables.
To alleviate suffering in cases of sickness and during convalescence, homes were
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