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74 (i
v. social movements.
It may be assumed without further explanation that Stockholm and its
immediate surroundings present the most typical as well as the most productive
instances of activity in the work, through institutions, associations and private
efforts; but other districts of the country, too, possess good and valuable
examples of this important social work among infants, children, and young
persons, into which three classes the growing generation can suitably be grouped.
It is not feasible to enumerate even approximately the manifold foundations
that serve this sphere of work, but a few words may be allowed concerning
"Allmänna barnhuset", the Public Orphanage, at Stockholm, partly because that
institution holds longstanding traditions, but also because it performs its function
in a remarkable and unique manner.
Photo. Malmström, Stockholm.
The Little Ones’ Home, Stockholm
For children suffering from heriditary syphilis.
Its aim is to receive and care for unprotected children, and as far as possible
outside the home and preferably in the country parts bring them up to be useful
members of society. The children are received up to six years of age, and
thus also when new-born, upon a payment of 600 kronor as a rule. They are
put out with foster-parents as soon as possible in respectable licensed homes
and at a fixed charge, and there they stay till 14 years of age. By means of
inspectors who control the care of them, the home superintends its protegés,
and so fulfils its guardianship and maintains the position justly assumed as a
model institution in all respects.
Asylums, homes, cottages, and creches for infants and children,
milk-dispensaries and other appropriate establishments are intended to provide home-care for
healthy infants and older children, and are to be found almost everywhere in
Sweden.
Sick children receive attention from official doctors free of cost when
necessary at surgeries and infirmaries. Hospitals exclusively for children exist- at
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