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EUGEN IC WORK IN SWEDISH FINLAND
BY
OS SI AN SCH AU MAN, M. D.
PROFESSOR AT THE UN1VERSITY OF HELSINGFORS, FINLAND.
POLITICALLY FINLAND WAS UNITED TO SWEDEN UP TO 1809;
it was then conquered by Russia and became an independent republic in
1918 after a bloody struggle. Laws, administration, education, in other
words, culture in general are chiefly of Swedish origin.
Finland is inhabited by two different races, the Finnish and the Swedish.
The population of Swedish origin amounts at present to 370,000 souls, thus con*
stituting only 11.5 % of the whole population. About 10 % of the Swedes are
spread in small colonies among
the Finnish population, while
90 % inhabit certain stretches
of land along the coast and a
great part of the archipelago.
These lastnamed districts do
not form one connected whole,
but consist of three separate
territories Nyland, Åboland
with the Åland Islands, and
Ostrobothnia. The whole area
of the Swedish settlements amo*
unts to 15,000 square kilome*
tres or to 4.5 % of the whole
surface of Finland.
At present about one third
of the Swedish against one
eighth of the Finnish popula*
tion lives in the towns. The
country population in Swedish
Finland mainly occupy them*
selves with farming; the popu*
lation of the islands and along
the coast are also fishermen and
sailors. In Ostrobothnia the
greatest part of the land is in
the hands of the peasantry. In
the other Swedish districts the
number of peasant=owners is
smaller.
The knowledge of reading
is general. The number of Swe=
Map showing the domiciliation of Swedes in
Finland at present.
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