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swedish national anti-tuberculosis association.
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Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Also dentistry has been provided for children
in need of it.
An institution remarkable of its kind is the "Lilla Hemmet", the Little Ones’
Home, opened in 1900. At present 37 children are received into this refuge,
burdened with hereditary syphilis, and by the anxious attention bestowed upon them,
it is hoped that they may be saved future suffering, prevented from
propagating the complaint, and rescued, for useful work in society. Thanks to
Professor Edvard Welander, Sweden is here doing pioneer work in this regard.
Associations and individuals who clothe, feed, and provide healthful care for
scrofulous and tuberculous children, or summer resorts in the country at vacation
colonies, for children or young persons in need of them, are found in such
great numbers that it is simply impossible to name or enumerate them all.
To the blind, deaf-mutes, deformed and neglected, public and private charity
extends a helping hand, by bestowing home protection, upbringing and maintenance,
partly free of charge, and in part at charges that must be considered as
remarkably low.
There are training institutions, schools, working homes, asylums, and nursing
homes for idiots and imbeciles.
Refuges have been organized for the degenerate and such children as suffer
from depravity, where the young unfortunates may obtain possibilities of
betterment, by means of orderly work and good teaching, and where all efforts are
directed to restore to the community those lives which without motherly care
and protection would lapse into viciousness and crime.
Many of these institutions have already been so well tested and organized
that their advantages for society is known and acknowledged; others again are
still in a relatively experimental position; but, wherever work is done in the
service of protecting children, it may be asserted without exaggeration that an
honourable and serious effort is going forward to do the most and best
possible for the good of the nation and the benefit of the "land and people" of
Sweden.
See also the section entitled: "Care of the Needy and Destitute."
Swedish National Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
The "Svenska Nationalföreningen mot Tuberkulos" (The Swedish
Anti-Tubercu-losis Association) was founded in 1904 for the purpose of combating consumption
as a national disease. President is H. B. H. the Crown Prince. The number of
members on Dec. 31, 1913 was 18 853 of whom 11 804 were attached to one
of the branches in the provinces, the remainder direct to the National Association.
Its revenues, in addition to members’ fees and donations, proceed from the sale
of so called "välgörenhetsmärken", "charity stamps" and of (artistically decorated)
telegraph forms for telegrams of congratulation. The net proceeds from the
charity stamps from 1904—13 amounted to 549 904’« kronor and from the
telegram-forms 1912—13 to 52 241-09 kronor.
One of the objects of the Association is to disseminate information
concerning tuberculosis. From 1904—1913, altogether 1 326 lectures have been
delivered by medical men sent out for the purpose, to about 201 400 listeners.
An exhibition is arranged in Stockholm and demonstrations on the subject
are given every week. The number of visitors from 1906—13 was 74 959.
A quarterly with a circulation of 20 000 copies is published, and in addition
a score of brochures respecting the movement are distributed.
Scholarships are awarded to doctors and nurses for studies in sanatoria, and
courses for the training of nurses in dispensary work are arranged.
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