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POOR-RELIEF.
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set up, intended to give the sufferer temporary refuge; associations for nursing
the sick in their own homes have done incalculable good, by securing trained
nursing and suitable diet for invalids, who, for various reasons, could not or
ought not to be admitted into hospitals.
Homes of different kinds have also been organized for the misguided, fallen,
and unfortunate in mind or body. Attempts have been made to supply work to
the unemployed; cheap dwellings have been provided for people with very little
ability to pay rent, and the homeless have obtained temporary refuge in
night-lodgings and shelters.
Photo. Axel JIalmstiium, Stockholm.
Danviken Home, near Stockholm
Above all, arrangements have been made for children, who stand in need of
care, whether they are of tender age or approaching years of discretion. Infants’
homes, where mother and child are admitted together for the nursing period.
Homes for very young children, Milk dispensaries, Crèches, Infirmaries, Holiday
and Convalescent homes, "children’s shelters", and other establishments grew up,
and Societies for clothing and feeding tried to help such children as did not
need to be taken entire charge of. For such purposes, Children’s homes were
started all over the country. It has been more and more realized that children,
when they grow up and become more capable of thinking, ought to be assisted
in such a way as to stimulate their activity and their capacity for and delight
in work; with this object: Workshops for children (Arbetsstugor), or workrooms
for children, are scattered over the whole country. The same office is
performed by schools for housewifery and domestic work and so-called "home training
schools" in country districts.
Besides such arrangements for particular cases needing assistance, great activity
has been developed in encouraging, advising, and generally sustaining those who
are oppressed by the burden of poverty. This has been done by Societies for
relieving distress, working in different parts of the country and under various
names. Members of these societies, belonging to the more prosperous classes,
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