80 RACE»lMPROVEMENT IN SWEDEN 



than ever before devoted themselves to the work of social enlightenment among 

 the people, this concerns especially a number of organisations for young people 

 such as the Abstinence Association of Swedish Students (S. S. U. H.) and Swe* 

 den's Good Templar Society for the Young (S. G. U.). which have also taken up 

 as a subject for study the tuberculosis problem and the race»biological questions. 

 Since 1901 when the Central Society for teaching Temperance was started, the 

 Society has arranged altogether 97 popular^science courses. During recent years, 

 some hours out of every course have been devoted to lectures on heredity and its 

 application to mankind. 



Since 1909 The Swedish Society for Race»hygiene has been at work in this 

 country. It has taken as its task to advance eugenic investigation, the spreading of 

 enlightenment in questions connected with this subject and to »support scientific 

 cally founded struggles for the physical and mental health of the rising and coming 

 generations*. Grants have thus been made, among others, towards the publication 

 of Professor Lundborg's great work on a degenerate Blekinge family, and the 

 Society publishes a series of popular eugenic pamphlets. 



