The People's Health
1943-10 1943 1940s 36 pages A SCHOOL TEACHER. We need an improved school medical service too. There has been a big increase in the teaching of biology in schools but it should be extended to adults. The essentials of good health such as cleanliness, which are taught in the schools, need to be backe...
| 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
36 pages
A SCHOOL TEACHER. We need an improved school medical service too. There has been a big increase in the teaching of biology in schools but it should be extended to adults. The essentials of good health such as cleanliness, which are taught in the schools, need to be backed up in the home. A good constitution is built during the growing school years and you can do little about it in the later adult years. More school medical officers are needed. Under present conditions we have only three medical examinations for the child during its whole school career. School teachers as trade unionists should give attention to the children's health as well as to their education. We need improved services and we want them to be entirely free. Mr. A.M. YULE (Tyne District Management Committee, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.) The position is that we are all compelled by legislation to pay National Health Insurance. This makes us expect a bit better health service than we had previously. But to get such a service we must get rid of certain vested interests. Doctors speak of a National Health service as likely to rob them of their individuality. They talked in the same way when it was proposed to institute the panel system and there is not a single one of them would do away with that system because it has guaranteed them a higher income than ever before. But all this opposition would not prevent us from getting a truly National Health Service if the workers were fully determined to have one. We need a central administrative authority upon which the workers are adequately represented. The Beveridge Report might not contain everything a Socialist would like, but it is a step in the right direction. I believe if we get it on the Statute Book the doctors will come in line just as they did before. I would like to see the Trade Councils brought into the Regional Committees which would administer the service. They are representative bodies themselves now that they are allowed to have Communists elected to them. 29
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