The People's Health
1943-10 1943 1940s 36 pages A SHIPYARD WORKER. I support the demand that Councillor Esther has made for a National Health Service. All our experience proves the need for it. I would like to see periodical medical examination of all workers and the extension of the scheme for the provision of Rehabil...
| 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 SHIPYARD WORKER. I support the demand that Councillor Esther has made for a National Health Service. All our experience proves the need for it. I would like to see periodical medical examination of all workers and the extension of the scheme for the provision of Rehabilitation Centres to include the establishment of sanatoria where workers who are run down can go for a couple of weeks' rest. I believe the pressure of the Labour Movement could bring the changes we all want so much, and furthermore, could improve the standard of the medical profession too. We all have certain reservations about the Beveridge Report but the main grievance we have is not against the Report but against the Government that has so far failed to put its recommendations on the the Statute Book. AN ENGINEER. The essential basis of health. I think, is good and adequate food, good housing, recreation and adequate leisure ; in short, sufficiency of the means of life. We want an assurance that there will be no dole queues after this war and the guarantee of an assured income that cannot be depressed by financial jugglery. Today fortunes are being made out of the misery and ill-health of the people. Councillor ESTHER (reply to discussion). I have welcomed this discussion because it shows that many workers are now getting a grasp of the essentials of good health and of the ways by which it can be secured. When we are talking about a National Health Service it should be noted carefully that what is actually meant is nationalisation of health services. We have got nationalisation of the Fire Service because without it there was a great risk that property would be destroyed by enemy action. We want the same attitude towards human life. There were posters on every hoarding with the slogan "BRITAIN SHALL NOT BURN." We want posters out with the slogan "CHILDREN SHALL NOT DIE." I have a retentive memory and I can remember the Government promising to conscript property as well as life. Here is its chance. But it is interesting to notice that the Government does not put so much stress upon protection of human life as it does upon the protection of property. 30
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