Trade Union Advisory Medical Officers
1920 1920 1920s 9 pages (b) GENERAL IMPERIAL MEDICAL POLICY. Labour's aim in this aspect should be briefly to (a) Secure uniformity in the medical degrees and teaching in all parts of the British Commonwealth. (b) Secure for Trade Unionists whose vocation takes then to the Colonies adequate...
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(b) GENERAL IMPERIAL MEDICAL POLICY. Labour's aim in this aspect should be briefly to (a) Secure uniformity in the medical degrees and teaching in all parts of the British Commonwealth. (b) Secure for Trade Unionists whose vocation takes then to the Colonies adequate treatment on better lines than at present. (c) Secure gradually the development and research of Tropical Medicine away from the present system of charity and doles from exploiters of whatever nationality more on to the control and supervision of the State as representing the whole community. So bad is the present system of charity that in some of the Brown Colonies, research work into certain tropical diseases endemic in these climes is subsidised, with the permission of the local and Imperial British Government, by the Rockfeller Foundation, the gift of a noted American exploiter of the gifts of nature. (c) GENERAL NATIONAL MEDICAL POLICY. This should be considered as a whole, avoiding where possible the controversial items, and made to blend with Labour's general policy. This will be especially desirable in driving home how the health of the workers and the general community would benefit by securing (1) An improvement in economic conditions. (2) A radical reform of the system of Land Tenure. (3) The elaboration of the Garden City idea. (A) Special medical, health, or sanitary questions arising in connection with particular places and seaports and cities will have to receive serious consideration and discussion. (B) The whole wide field of National Industrial Medicine, and the proneness of workers in certain industries to contract certain diseases and certain morbidities will be open for survey. It is not urged here that the Labour movement should do the work of the State in this connection, but as specially representing the workers it is desirable that the Labour Movement should by its medical section and its research department have the statistics and conditions relating to any employment ready for quotation or publication. (C) Hospitals. No definite pronouncement has yet been made by the Labour Movement as to its policy towards the Hosptial [Hospital] system of the country. There is undoubtedly a tendency towards the idea and opinion that the institutions concerned should be under State ownership and popular control. But the details of a scheme, on the lines of the Miners' Federation for the nationalisation of the Mines, have not yet been presented to the public. It is not the object in a memorandum of this description to dilate on the system of hospital administration in this country. It is however necessary to mention briefly that the Labour Movement can obtain a more adequate control and interest in the voluntary Hospitals, even as they exist to-day. The subject is closely allied to that discussed in the next paragraph, viz. the question of Charity in relation to Hospital treatment.
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