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corrective institutions for depraved children.
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Swedish language. Patients remaining long at the institution are given an
elementary school education.1 In connection with the institute is a summer home,
which the pupils and convalescents in need of it can visit for recreation on
the same conditions as in the institute.
The Association for the aid of the disabled in Hälsingborg works 011 exactly
the same plan as that in Gothenburg, and has in its newly instituted
infirmary room for 49 patients and for 60 pupils in the industrial school, of whom
40 may reside in the school-house. The resources of the association at the end
of 1913 were 195 372’os kronor; receipts during that year were 85 170’os,
kronor, of which the State supplied 36 243"02 kronor; expenses in the same year
were 63 879’32 kronor.
The Association for the aid of the maimed and disabled in Stockholm was
founded in 1891, and works on the same system as those just named; it has,
in its newly built sick-ward, beds for 35 patients and for 75 pupils in its
industrial school, of which 50 can be boarded in the school-house. Its resources
at the end of 1913 were 697 537’6i kronor, receipts for the same year 345 305-40
kronor, of which the State supplied 169 031’60 kronor. The same year’s
expenses were 308 235’2G kronor.
The three institutions are now erecting branches of their schools, intended
for children below the age of 14 years, who will be given an elementary school
education and also instruction in sewing, sloyd, and elementary carpentry.
Opportunities for instruction in shoe-mending and simple framework will also be
afforded the pupils.
Since 1913 there have accordingly been in Sweden three institutions, well
appointed and worked on modern principles, with altogether room for 140
residential and 65 non-residential pupils, and 140 sick beds, besides which skilled
orthopedic treatment may be obtained for a very large number of patients in
the dispensaries of the institutions. Further, in addition to the cripple
institutions, a common central organization has been formed and consists of 15
members, chosen from among the managers of the three institutions, 5 from each.
This organization is called the Svenska Vanföreanstalternas Centralkommitté
(S. V. C. K.; The Swedish Cripple Associations’ Central Committee) and. owing
to its constitution, consists of the most authoritative and experienced persons
in these matters in the country. Its main object is to secure local support
from all over the country and to help organizations for cripples; it also
endeavours, by the publication of pamphlets and circulars, to spread information about
the cripples, their numbers, their difficult position, and the possibility of helping
them.
The S. V. C. K. also collects money for supporting the work among the
cripples, and, thanks to the generosity of the public, it can afford them tangible
help in the form of working utensils, invalid carriages, assistance in professional
training of some kind, etc.
Corrective institutions for Depraved Children.
According to a law respecting the education of depraved and morally
neglected children, promulgated June 13th, 1902, a sufficient number of protective
homes ought (thus the measure is desirable but not absolutely necessary) to be
provided for the care of depraved children in every county council district and
town that is not included under a county council, and an additional such
institution, recognized by the Government, for depraved minors (below 15 years
of age); protective homes — according to the law in force to accommodate 30
pupils at the most — are to be met with in the Läns of Östergötland, Jönköping,
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