Women at War…Safeguard your Health
1942-10 1942 1940s 8 pages 40,000,000 WEEKS OF WORK ARE LOST EVERY YEAR IN THE FACTORIES THROUGH ILLNESS Think it over! 40,000,000 weeks of work equals 11,500 fighter planes or their equivalent. Illness, not Hitler, made us lose all these extra weapons. We send our Navy to guard the convoys against...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/C3F1126E-7E6A-4059-8B34-99DAB09B6078 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/40F0F032-0C50-4040-B68F-D9C25790435E |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
8 pages
40,000,000 WEEKS OF WORK ARE LOST EVERY YEAR IN THE FACTORIES THROUGH ILLNESS Think it over! 40,000,000 weeks of work equals 11,500 fighter planes or their equivalent. Illness, not Hitler, made us lose all these extra weapons. We send our Navy to guard the convoys against the Nazi submarines on the ocean. We must organise safeguards for our health in the factories, so that illness, which helps Hitler, will not sink our production at home. WE take a lot of trouble to see that our Forces are fighting fit. We must take a good deal more trouble to keep ourselves fighting fit in industry as well. The facts given on this page show you how serious it is. Do you know much of the illness in Britain to-day could be stopped if a few simple precautions were taken? Good health is your own affair. So also is the prevention of accidents at work, which, in Birmingham alone, numbered 100,000 last year. This pamphlet won't tell you what pills and tablets to take. It gives you some simple rules and precautions which will safeguard your health and that of the workers around you. Take the advice given. It will save you much discomfort. It will add to the country's fighting efficiency. It will increase the number of planes, tanks, guns, bombs and shells to beat Hitler. The rules for health in the factory are not so very different from those in the home, and women especially should be as 3
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