The People's Health
1932-07 1932 1930s 24 pages important work of the Medical Research Council, now under the supervision of the Privy Council, should be controlled by the Ministry of Health. It is unfortunate that the Ministry of Health Act should permit the supervision of the inspection and treatment of school childr...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : The Labour Party
July 1932
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| Summary: | 1932-07
1932
1930s
24 pages
important work of the Medical Research Council, now under the supervision of the Privy Council, should be controlled by the Ministry of Health. It is unfortunate that the Ministry of Health Act should permit the supervision of the inspection and treatment of school children by the Board of Education, although nominally, questions of principle are reserved to the Ministry of Health. At the centre, therefore, it will be necessary to transfer all the public medical activities of the nation to the Ministry of Health, at the same time that they are being transferred locally to the Public Health Committees. Unfortunately at the periphery there is at the present time an even larger number of different authorities dealing with health matters. As an example of the present muddle there are Sanitation, Infectious diseases, Maternity and Child Welfare, Tuberculosis, Venereal Disease amongst other matters, dealt with by Public Health Committees of which there are two to deal with every area except County Boroughs, i.e., a Public Health Committee of the County Council and also a Public Health Committee of the local Sanitary Authority. The inspection and treatment of school children is undertaken by the Education Committees, and the Poor Law Medical Service, as well as a good many hospitals up and down the country are still under the control of the Public Assistance Committees. The important branch of curative medicine the National Health Insurance, is controlled by the Insurance Committees and the Factory Health Service as far as it exists at all, is administered directly by the Home Office. The problem of the future is the evolution and transformation of all these branches of medical acitivity [activity] and the carrying out of the necessary administrative changes, so that they may be controlled by a single health authority in each locality. It will be convenient to consider the changes necessary under four heads :— (1) National Health Insurance. (2) Poor Law. (3) Hospital Services. (4) Public Health Services. It must be remembered, however, that the development of all these four services should take place at the same time, and as rapidly as public opinion will permit. The suggested changes are for the sake of clarity set out in the form of steps, but in many cases two or more steps can be carried out at the same time by a single piece of legislation. (1) National Health Insurance. National Health Insurance is composed of two distinct sections which have really no direct connection with one 15
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