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iv. education and mental culture.
»Society for the care of adult blind persons, who are deaf and dumb or
feebleminded».
Finally, as many of the pupils were so feeble-minded that it was impossible
to train them, it was found necessary to establish, in 1906, a third department
— an asylum for those incapable of being trained, where they receive the care
that their helplessness claims and are at the same time trained up to cleanliness
and human habits, whereby they are able to lead a life which is, at any rate
as far as the exterior is concerned, more worthy of human beings than before.
The Queen Sophia Foundation is a complete training institution for the blind
with any complication of defects, including a school, where the pupils are instructed
in ordinary school subjects and handicrafts, by preference weaving, a working
home, in which the pupils are principally occupied with handicrafts, and an
asylum for those incapable of being trained, the number of inmates of the
various departments being 55, 25 and 57. The founder and directress of the
institution is Mrs E. Anrep-Nordin.
The annual fees for each pupil are: in the school 400 kronor, in the working
home 300 kronor, and in the asylum at least 300 kronor. Contributions towards
these fees are now received from most of the county councils.
The period of instruction is reckoned as being from 10 to 12 years for such
blind children as are deaf and dumb; for other blind children at least 8 years,
according to the intellectual capacity of each child.
Besides, the institution aims at giving a shelter for life to any pupil in need.
The staff of the institution at present consists of 14 lady-teachers, 5 matrons,
16 nurses, 12 servants, an outdoor man-servant — in addition to the directress,
the treasurer, and the doctor — all of whom, except for the last four, live in
the institution.
For a long time the institution was the only one of its kind in the world.
Some years ago, however, a similar school was established at Nowawes, near
Berlin, on the lines of the institution in Sweden. It has frequently been
visited by strangers, who have, for a shorter or longer period, studied its work.
A Royal proposal with regard to the institution was made to the Riksdag in
1914, which thereupon decided that the institution should be entirely taken over
by the State and removed to the city of Lund, as soon as the necessary buildings
had been erected there, for which purpose a sum of 521 000 kronor was
granted.
Institutions for the Training of the Mentally Defective. The history
of the care of the feeble-minded in Sweden may be traced back for almost half
a century. For instance, the first school (a private one), for feeble-minded
children, was opened in 1863; this school was soon afterwards taken over by
Emanuella Carlbeck, under whose direction it developed into a truly model
institution. Later however, it was principally the läns which took in hand the
training of feeble-minded children, two or more läns occasionally uniting their
efforts for this purpose. The number of these schools is at present 27, of which
6 are owned by associations, and all the rest by the läns resp. towns which
form own county council districts (landstingsområden). All these institutions are
boarding-schools excepting one, that of Norrköping, which is for day-pupils.
Among the schools owned by societies, one, (founded by Mrs E.
Anrep-Nor-din) is reserved for the feeble-minded blind, and two, (founded at the instance
of Mrs Ebba Ramsay), for epileptics, who are not admitted to the same schools
as non-epileptics. The total number of pupils in schools for the feeble-minded
was 1 028 at the beginning of 1914. The various foundations vary greatly
in size, ranging from some ten or twenty pupils in the smaller establishments,
up to close on 100 in the larger. The great majority of these training institu-
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