The People's Health
1943-10 1943 1940s 36 pages 7. While we welcome the growing interest now being shown by the workers themselves and by their trade union and other organisations in health questions, it must be stressed that it is not yet on a scale to warrant any great degree of satisfaction with the position. 8. Th...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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Newcastle-on-Tyne : North-East District Committee, Communist Party
1943
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| Summary: | 1943-10
1943
1940s
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7. While we welcome the growing interest now being shown by the workers themselves and by their trade union and other organisations in health questions, it must be stressed that it is not yet on a scale to warrant any great degree of satisfaction with the position. 8. The establishment of the Mines Medical Service is a step in the right direction, but it is far from adequate. One Medical Officer for the whole of the Durham Coalfield with its 90,000 workers, and another for Northumberland are hopelessly insufficient. The Communist Party proposes :— 1. Factory Medical and Welfare Staff to be paid by the Government, independent of the management and as part of the National Health Service. Rapid extension of the Industrial Health Service. 2. More power to Medical Officers of Health and the appointment of more Factory Inspectors to enforce satisfactory health and sanitary conditions. Extension of the Factory Acts to the Railways. 3. Workers' Health and Safety Committees to be set up in every Factory, Shipyard and Pit, to co-operate with the doctors, technical staff and management to ensure healthy conditions, the prevention of accidents, and reasonable working hours. 4. Trade Unions to press for the establishment of Committees (proposed by Mr. Bevin on March 12th, 1943), and to take all steps to increase the interest of the workers in all health questions in the factory and the home. (b) Nutrition. The following measures are necessary to improve the position generally :— 1. Improved catering in many canteens ; increase the variety and quality of the meals provided. 2. Greater allocation of meat, fruit, and other basic foods to canteens, British Restaurants and other places catering for workers' needs. In particular immediate attention must be given to the allocation of these foods to Pit Canteens. 3. Speed up the provision of school dinners. The North-East in this respect seriously lags behind the rest of the country. 4. Wider participation of the workers in control of canteens, greater use of facilities provided by Co-operative Wholesale and Retail Societies and the elimination of large profits gained by private industrial catering firms. 20
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