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74 (i
v. social movements.
In this connection, attention may be drawn to two other institutions
mentioned in another place, which make it part of their business to grant
pensions to a certain class of men, namely sailors. One of these
institutions is the Seamen Registry Offices, the expenditure of which for
pensions is partly defrayed from members’ fees; the other is the Mercantile
Marine Pension Fund, which is supported solely from State funds.
In connection with this account of pension funds in a true sense, namely
those based on self-aid, mention may also be made of the many "funds"
(fonder) founded by private charity, for providing necessitous persons with
pensions without their own cooperation. Including the Mercantile Marine
Pension Fund, there existed in 1905 no less than 895 of these
institutions, which in the same year dispensed relief to an aggregate amount
of 1741 279 kr.; the balance of capital in these funds at the end of the
year totalled 37 637 501 kr. Among these funds must be reckoned, inter
alia, also the following funds founded with the aid of State monies for
providing relief to soldiers, particularly the rank and file of the Army,
namely: the Vadstena Soldier’s Fund (4 412 449 kr.)1, the Pensioners’
Hospital Fund (3 405 438 kr.), and the Conscripts’ Hospital and Pension
Fund (3 591 563 kr.) Altogether, these three funds in 1912 provided relief
to about 13 000 persons to an amount of over 800 000 kr.
Several of these 895 so-called "fonder", which were accounted for
separately under that designation, in the quinquennial reports of the
Governors of the Läns, and have been dealt with in this place accordingly, were,,
however, classed in the above mentioned experts’ reports among the
"pensionskassor". They have therefore been included in the figures given
above for pension funds proper.
Accident Insurance. Apart from certain special ordinances, early
Swedish law did not contain any other enactments as to employers’
liability, than those that could be deduced as corollaries from common law.
in certain particulars, the figures given are only approximate. — 14 See note 15. — 16 One
or two of these funds are apparently in receipt of State aid, though the total amount of
that aid would appear to be comparatively small; however, the experts’ reports, from which
the other figures given here have been obtained, do not furnish any exact information on
this head. — 16 In order to obtain a more exact statement of the total expenditure of the
State for pensions in 1912, it is necessary to add to the total of 6 581 720 kronor several
other rather considerable items, of which the most important would appear to be the
following: Treasury grant to the three pension funds, the Mercantile Marine Pension Fund
(106 000 kr.), the Vadstena Soldiers’ Fund 243 640 kr.), and the Pensioners’ Hospital
Fund (60 350 kr.); further the expenditure for the direct pensioning by the State of her
own officials; notably for the so-termed "Allmänna Indragningsstaten", or Half-pay List,
(2 213 311 kr.), for the pensioning of civil officials (948 803 kr.), for the pension
establishments of the Customs Service (312 661 kr.), of the Post Office (303 057 kr.), of the National
Debt Board (11 867 kr.), and of the Bank of Sweden (69 159 kr.), to which must be added
the pensioning of the rank and file of the Navy and Pilot Service (211 260 kr.1. In this
way the total expenditure of the State for pensioning will rise to about 9 800000 kr.
This, however, does not include the kind of State aid which certain widows’ and orphans’
pension funds, and other similar institutions, receive in the shape of a share in fines, and
the like, which in 1912 amounted, for example, in the case of the Customs Service Private
Pension Fund to 20 474 kr., and for the State Railwavs’ Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension
Fund to 352 057 kronor.
1 The figures in brackets give the balance of capital at the end of 1912.
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