The First Labour Hospital
1921 1921 1920s 8 pages 3 OBJECTS. To make industrial workers independent of charity in hospital treatment. Till now, the worker has been in effect a pauper patient in a hospital maintained principally by charity. Owing to the immense pressure upon voluntary hospitals, he is allowed to stay only the...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Co-operative Printing Society Ltd.
1921
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| Summary: | 1921
1921
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3 OBJECTS. To make industrial workers independent of charity in hospital treatment. Till now, the worker has been in effect a pauper patient in a hospital maintained principally by charity. Owing to the immense pressure upon voluntary hospitals, he is allowed to stay only the absolute minimum of time. It is dreadful to know that there are thousands of workmen crippled by industrial accidents that have resulted in severed muscles and nerves, stiffened joints, and contracted sinews. The victims, half paralysed and completely incapable of undertaking anything like skilled work, see themselves condemned to a life of ill-paid casual unskilled labour or of unemployment. If only sufficient time and money could be devoted to skilled treatment it has been proved that 80 per cent. of them could be completely cured, and the remainder largely relieved of their crippling disabilities, thus enabling them to return and take their places in the ranks of skilled labour. [photograph] ONE OF THE WARDS. This is where the Labour Hospital steps in. Their treatment is continued until they are cured as far as the highest medical skill can guarantee. We endeavour to make every man capable of undertaking the work he was engaged in prior to his accident. SCOPE. We treat practically all disabilities under the Workmen's Compensation Act, including orthopaedic cases, injuries to bones which have united in bad positions or failed to unite, thereby rendering the patient useless for his employment, bone deformities, such as knock-knees, flat feet, etc., injuries to nerves resulting in pain
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