Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages especially those who have suffered hardship in this respect in the past. 4. TRADE UNIONISM To obtain a wide extension of trade union organisation throughout the Health Services. How can we achieve the above objectives? Let us consider them individually in some detail :&a...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
especially those who have suffered hardship in this respect in the past. 4. TRADE UNIONISM To obtain a wide extension of trade union organisation throughout the Health Services. How can we achieve the above objectives? Let us consider them individually in some detail :— 1. HEALTH AND PRODUCTION At all times workers have the right to the best health that can be obtained, but improvements are particularly urgent in the present situation, where maximum production and fighting fitness are essential. Health workers must therefore be fully acquainted with the facts which demonstrate, firstly, how general health can be improved, and secondly, the inter-relationships of health and production. Armed with this knowledge we can teach the men and women engaged in production not only about the time they lose on account of avoidable accidents and sickness, but HOW THIS CAN BE PREVENTED. It is reliably estimated, for example, that no less than 40,000,000 work-weeks are lost annually by workers at the present time (Lancet 18.7.42), i.e. for every day lost as a result of labour stoppages of other kinds, strikes, etc., 9 months are lost on account of absence through sickness and accident. How many industrial workers are aware that ill-health alone leads to so much lost time each year, equivalent to the time necessary for the output of 11,500 fighter aircraft? How many miners know that in 1940, 142,000 colliers had to take time off as the result of injuries or industrial diseases and that their average period off duty was three to four weeks? (Reynolds News, 31.5.42). They undoubtedly know that theirs is one of the most "dangerous" industries. Figures given in the P.E.P. Report on British Health Services show that for every 100,000 men employed there are 1,980 cases of compensable disease among miners as against only 66 for factory workers, and of all compensable 7
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