Sociala meddelanden. 1954: 1-6 (pdf) - Statistiska centralbyrån

RÉSUMÉ 39
Sociala Meddelanden
Official Journal published monthly by the Social Welfare Board of Sweden
1951, no 1 CONTENTS
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Criminological views on the clinical development of alcoholism. By Professor
Örnulv Ödegård, M. D 1
Some of the more important results of the Social Welfare Board's inquiry
into the cost of living in 1952 11
The conciliation system, a survey
Short notices:
The Social Welfare Board's pronouncement on a draft law referred to it on insemina­
22
tion 25
Members of the Joint Advisory Committees on the Retail Price Index 26
Periodical Surveys
Register 27
Socially organized domestic help in 1952 27
The State General Inheritance Fund for the financial year 1952/53 . . . . 32
The Social Welfare Board's general consumer price index for November 1953 33
The development of retail prices in Sweden and abroad 34
Employment and unemployment 36
Literary survey 42
Book notices 48
List of certain members of the Staff of the Social Welfare Board and a list
of the addresses of certain local bodies associated with the Social Welfare
Board 53
The Issue in Brief
Criminological views on the clinical development The households that took part were chosen quite
of alcoholism. Chronic alcoholism is described at random, and the investigation covers both
in this article by Professor Örnulv ödegård as a rural and densely populated districts as well as
clinical entity with a fairly typical course, starting all social classes, income brackets and types of
with incidental drinking of the careless and social household. In order to reduce the expense in­
type, and ending up in addiction, with severe volved in collecting the data, the selection was
social and personal deterioration. Asocial be­ made in two stages, first a number of interview
haviour in a drinker may result from the reduc­ areas — 39 in all — being drawn by lot, and then
tion of superior control during aotual intoxication, those households within them which were to
and in this case a release of more or less conscious be asked to collaborate in the inquiry were like­
motivations tends to predominate. It may, on wise drawn by lot. Thereupon the data were
the other hand, express the more permanent collected by means of interviews.
srsonality pattern of the chronic alcoholic, On account of a refusal to participate or sick­
Çhis pattern, which is described in some detail, ness or death etc. about 14 % of the selected
is a combined result of toxio brain damage and households lapsed. Of these, hardly half fell out
of psychodynamio factors connected with the on aooount of their refusal. The data subsequently
life situation of the drinker. This secondary compiled relates to 573 households.
deterioration of personality is often confused The average expenditure on consumption
with primary psychopathio traits which were amounts to 9 732 Kronor per household, 37 %
evident before the person started to drink, and thereof going to pay for food and drink, 13 %
which may have been responsible for his addic­ for rent, fuel and light, 13 % for clothes and
tion. Page 1.
shoes and 37 % for other outlays. The percentage
distribution within the various types of
Some of the more important restdts of the Social household is fairly uniform. Major differences
Welfare Board's inquiry into the cost of living in are revealed by a comparison between households
1952. Åt the beginning of 1953 an inquiry was in different types of locality. In the countryside
carried out into the oosts of living during 1952. a larger proportion of the total expenditure goes