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elementary education.
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dag", (a kind of "Hospital Sunday" in aid of poor children), and from
endowments. The vacation colonies are managed by local societies. Delegates from these
societies form a Central Board, of which the Queen is honorary president. The
Central Board administers certain of the funds devoted to all the colonies in
common. The largest is that bequeathed in 1911 by Mr Ernst Hirsch, and
bearing the name of "Elin Hirschs minne" (The Elin Hirsch Memorial Fund).
It amounts to half a million kronor, and is administered by the Stockholm
School Board, which annually makes over to the Central Board the interest
which has fallen due. — Most of the Stockholm school colonies are located in
the Skärgård of Uppland. Several are situated in the property of Lingslätö in
the parish of Väddö, purchased in 1911 from monies collected on "Barnens Dag".
The place is generally known as "Barnens ö", (Children’s Isle). Since 1896
weak-lunged children are sent to mountain camps expressly intended for them
at Ånn in Jämtland. In 1914 190 children in four camps were sent thitherto
breathe the mountain air.
From the "Children’s Isle", Lingslätö.
As has been mentioned, vacation colonies are sent out from most of the towns
in Sweden. Thus in 1912 Gothenburg had 41 vacation colonies with an aggregate
of 1 405 children, Malmö 22 with 485 children, Norrköping 11 with 327 children,
Halmstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona, and Lund each 6 camps with respectively
173, 193, 154, 152 children, Eskilstuna, Gävle, Kristianstad, and Sundsvall 5
colonies each with respectively 132, 145, 85, and 150 children, Falun and
Uppsala each 4 colonies with respectively 108 and 115 children, and so forth.
Children from some towns are also boarded in private homes in the country
during the summer holidays. These children are called feriebarn or "holiday
children". As a rule they have no expenses but their outfit and their journey
money. Thus in 1914 871 Stockholm children were boarded in private homes
in the country.
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