Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Social conditions

Collection:: Economics Books

115 patients at sanatoria, hospitals, and nursing homes for children, in case the patients themselves or those on whom they are dependent are too poor to defray the expenses. Under these circumstances the ex- penses are borne by the treasury, to which, in consequence, the dis- fricts and towns concerned have to contribute 2 krénur per every re- sident, or a lump sum not exceeding two-thirds of the expenditure in- curred by the State in connexion with the treatment in consumptive hospitals of the patients they are liable for. A sanatorium (60 beds) was built in northern Iceland in 1927, part- ly for private means and partly at the expense of the State. In the neighbourhood of Reykjavik a small convalescent home for tubercu- ‘ous patients (built by a private society) was opened in 1926. The following table will show the State budget for tuberculosis un- der the act of 1921: 1922 . 131 thousand krénur 1926 . 492 thousand krénur i923 . 281 —_ -_ 1927 . 861 —- Ls 1924 , 332 it] —_ 1928 . 912 — — 19256 , 503 — — HOUSING The Great War brought a very large increase in the costs of build- ing houses and a consequent diminution in output. Therefore the de- mand for housing accommodation, especially in Reykjavik, where the population rose rapidly through influx from outside, was confronted with a complete lack of eupply of free dwellings. The municipal au- thorities of Reykjavik had a few houses built as an emergency mea- sure, which, howcver, failed to bring any noticeable relief. And as Reykjavik was most severely affected by the housing shortage, a special act was passed in 1917 prohibiting all unnecessary raising of rents. Under this act, too, the right of giving notice was legally restricted, and made subject to the legitimate interest of the landlord (personal re- quirement) or offences committed by the tenant (arrears in payment of rent, disturbances of peace, etc.). A rent committee was set up, to which landlords and tenants might apply for rent fixation. The act remained in force till 1926, but in spite of all these restrictive measures, rents went on rising steadily, though not at the same rate as the building costs, which for Reykjavik were estimated to have increased five-fold by 1920 as compared with the prices ruling at the outbreak of the war, whereas the average rent had but trebled or scarcely even that. Thenceforward there has on the whole been a gradual de-

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