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private social activity.
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endeavours of the time to bring together the different classes of society
and to make as many as possible among the members of the community
participant of the fruits of civilization. A great part of this activity
is also previously accounted for, namely as far as it forms a link in
public instruction. In this connection accounts have been given of the
movement for people’s libraries (p. 395) and public lectures (p. 316), and
partly also such activity has been accounted for as has for its object the
physical and moral well-being of the school children, such as vacation
colonies (p. 298), work-shops (p. 303), and schools for abnormals and
neglected children (p. 305).
A great part of private social work in the capital as well as in the
provinces is always directed to the care and education of the children. A
considerable number of orphanages are maintained partly by societies, and partly by
private individuals, and there are day-nurseries in most of the larger towns. But,
as a rule, social work of this character has principally been concerned with
children in the school-age. Of låte years one has, however, become awake to the
necessity of a good care also being afforded the infants, and of spreading a
knowledge about the rational care of children. In 1900, Sällskapet Barnavård
(Society for the care of children) was formed in Stockholm with the object of
exciting interest in and spreading knowledge concerning the care and bringing u|>
of children. This society, which counts several prominent physicians as members
of its Board of directors, has established in the capital an institution for the
training of children’s nurses, where practical as well as theoretical instruction is
imparted in the care of infants. Poor mothers who are prevented from taking
care of their own little ones by work outside the home, may against a trifling
fee leave their children there, either during the day only, or else also during
the night. Only children under 2 years of age are received; a most painstaking
care is afforded them, and information and advice are given the mothers with
regard to the care of them. The pupils at the institution ought to have gone
through the common school and to have reached the age of 17. The course lasts
three months, and the fee is 30 kronor per pupil for instruction, board, and
lodging. In 1903 a similar institution was opened in Lerum, near Gothenburg.
Föreningen Mjölkdroppen (Milksupplying society »The Milkdrop»), which was
formed, in 1901, on the initiative of Dr. M. Blumenthal, has for its object, by
distribution of milk mixtures suitable for infants, to provide the proper food for such
little ones as cannot for some reason or other get the natural food. The milk is
sterilized, and six bottles, food for a day and a night, may be fetched every
morning by the mothers. Once or twice a month the children are to be shown
up and weighed, when they are examined by the physician. Clothes for the little
ones are lent free of charge, but are to be returned clean and mended. In
1903, milk was provided for 75 children daily. The yearly cost per child is
calculated at 100 kronor. »The Milkdrop» endeavours by the side of its chief
activity to impart to the mothers of the children knowledge concerning the proper
care of the little ones. After the pattern of this society in Stockholm there
have been established similar institutions in Gothenburg, Malmö, Norrköping, and
Karlstad.
Östermalms Nya Barnkrubba (The New Östermalm Children’s Day-nursery)
is an institution supported partly by the parish poor-relief Board, and partly by
private individuals, where children from 1—8 years of age are received to be
cared for during the day. Different from the rest of the day-nurseries in
Stockholm, at which the children certainly get food and are looked after but nothing
is done to occupy and develop them, this institution employs a Kindergarten
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