There are no accurate statistics on how many beggars who populate the streets hotel collection of S

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On the way to Stockholm City Archives on Kungsholmen an early spring day, I meet a young woman at the rise from the underground. She sits with a blanket around him against the cold wind and a paper cup in hand, pleading outstretched. hotel collection A few hundred meters away is one of the buildings that served as a poorhouse in Stockholm. It stems from the days when Sweden was among the poorest countries in Europe. For just a generation ago was 10, 000's of people in Sweden during hotel collection the epithet pauper. Then there were beggars everywhere.
There are no accurate statistics on how many beggars who populate the streets hotel collection of Stockholm, but the extent of homelessness can possibly give a hint. According to the social welfare department lacks 2,866 homes in Stockholm. Stockholm City Mission also expect hotel collection people in supported living and comes to the 4100 homeless. The group of homeless people who are growing fastest in the Stockholm-EU migrants. The number is again difficult to judge. The real figure is great. Many casual visitors in Stockholm is like the woman at the subway exit here to beg. Statistically, our typical beggar a 38 year old male Romanian citizen.
Who has the beggar then been in history? Vagrant and vagabond, with no fixed work or home that draws around between villages and towns have been an over-time recurring character. Other groups of beggars are tied to their time. Djäknepojkar interned schoolchildren who mainly during 1600 - and 1700s drove around town and devoted himself to legally hotel collection beg food at the side of the school. Friars had the right to reside outside their monastery ten weeks a year to beg for alms. Their presence in the city reflects a different approach to poverty hotel collection and begging than today. The dole was a way of salvation and the Beggar a natural feature of the cityscape. The church had the primary responsibility to provide for the poor. Sanctuaries and refuges offered spiritual as well as bodily fire to homeless and poor.
With the Reformation intensified the perception of the poor and charitable institutions disappeared. When Sweden was ruled by the Vasa kings was common to starving families sent their children to beg on the streets. There he also asked tion and freedom-hungry farmhands and maids who left their masters around. 1500s was a time when the population hotel collection was growing at a rapid pace while harvests often backfired. Contemporary eyewitnesses describe how destitute hotel collection and homeless is for the church doors, on the streets and in the ports.
In the wake of the Seventeenth Century wars of conquest in the 1600 - and 1700s followed the amounts of wounded men; the lame, the crippled, the blind, the deaf and traumatized. For those who could not work remained to join with the growing number of beggars. Other soldiers never returned. Sweden flooded soldier widows. Many were war refugees from other countries. hotel collection Their children are often taken up in the increasing number of homeless people, orphans and unwanted children who pulled around the city, begged and stole. For people and authorities were street children a scourge. Ahead of Queen's coronation in 1650 was hired special prackarfogdar who hired mobbing of Stockholm tiggarbarn. Many of the captured children were sick and starving.
1624 added a statute that distinguished between right and wrong beggars. So-called beggar passports were handed out and it was just a beggar who belonged in the parish who were awarded a pass. Tiggarpassen hotel collection changed hotel collection but not the situation significantly. 1642 was a regulation hotel collection that stipulated that all had to donate to poor relief in the context of collections and inventories. During the mid-1600s was about 1,100 inmates at the city's poor facilities. The need was far greater.
During the 1700s remained beggars are a common sight on city streets. With repeated proclamations tried to prevent the city of the "damage and inconvenience" that "regular people" were considered the cause. Often associated with begging strangers and vagabonds, but factors such as local town. A regulation from 1741 decreed that the city and the country would banish all "Jews, Sovoyarer, Tightrope Walker, Comedy Anter with several jesters, Tartars and Zigener". Vagrants and beggars could be arrested. Arrested men were sent to war service, women to work at Crown.
1800s were a turbulent time for poor relief. A decision was then torn up. The care came at last to be under the city Board. 1847 decreed a regulation that every parish in the country would have a Poor Law Board. That same year banned begging. Industrialization led to a substantial urbanization. The city's poor and homeless became more. In Stockholm heard the White Mountains on Södermalm to the most miserable areas, with run-down wooden shed and a population that was at the bottom of society.
The number of women arrested for vagrancy increased. hotel collection Others ended up in a growing prostitution. 32,163 locals were around 1900 completely dependent on subsidies. hotel collection In today's Stockholm gets around 10 000 households financial assistance. The Swedes experienced some really difficult