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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
In many of the larger towns it has become customary during the last few years
to send poor children who are specially delicate or weak into vacation colonies for
the summer, there to regain health and strength. These colonies, which are kept in
the country, usually in the vicinity of woods and water, are generally superintended
by male or female teachers. They were started in Stockholm in 1884, and between
1885 and 1900, 356 colonies of altogether 8,751 children, have been sent from
that city, exclusive of similar colonies provided for by certain large industrial
companies for children belonging to their workmen. Every colony consisted of
about 27 children on an average. The average number of days during which
each child was kept, amounted to 60-2, and the daily total cost per child
came to about 55-3 öre (about 7 1/s d.). The effects of such colonies on the
children’s health have been eminently satisfactory. The so-called mountain
colonies (Fjällkolonier) for children with weak chests are a species of these. These
colonies are usually stationed in Jemtland.
School Baths, Stockholm. photo, axkl Rtduc,
Stockholm.
Among special measures in the interest of education must be
mentioned the supply of materials for teaching and the
establishment of school libraries. A very detailed account has been forwarded
from the Ecclesiastical Department to all the heads of schools, of the
materials for teaching, which for the requirement of common schools
can be obtained by the agency of the Department at a reduced price;
and it is laid down in the common school statute that school authorities
should promote the establishment and use of school and village libraries,
and see that proper books are provided for that purpose.
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