The organisation of the preventative and curative medical services and hospital and laboratory systems under a Ministry of Health
1919 1919 1910s 18 pages THE LABOUR PARTY. Memoranda Prepared by the Advisory Committee on Public Health. I. The Organisation of the Preventative and Curative Medical Services and Hospital and Laboratory Systems under a Ministry of Health. Members. — Right Hon. John Hodge. M.P. (Chairman),...
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THE LABOUR PARTY. Memoranda Prepared by the Advisory Committee on Public Health. I. The Organisation of the Preventative and Curative Medical Services and Hospital and Laboratory Systems under a Ministry of Health. Members. — Right Hon. John Hodge. M.P. (Chairman), G.P. Blixard (Secretary), Mr J. Bacon. Dr. Ethel Bentham, Dr. Bygott, Mr. G.W. Canter, Mr. P.W. Cole, Dr. F. Lawson Dodd, Dr. David Forsyth, Dr. Greenwood, Dr. Somerville Hastings, Dr. Leonard Hill, Mr. G.A. Isaacs, Dr. Kerr, Mr. W. Leach, Dr. Benjamin Moore, Miss Enid Orange, Dr. C. Parker, Mr. W.C. Robinson, Dr. W. Salter, Mrs. E.N. Salmond. Dr. Lauriston Shaw, Dr. Jane Walker, Mrs. Sidney Webb. and Lieut.-Colonel J. Knyaston. PART I. The reorganisation of the whole mechanism of medical service will be one of the most important duties to be undertaken by the Ministry of Health in order that the greatest possible use may be made of medical science, not merely for the treatment and prevention of disease, but for the inauguration of those systems of living, working, and enjoying leisure which experience and scientific research show to he capable of producing the greatest happiness for all. It may be pointed out that while infant mortality has been greatly lowered by educational means in the last decades, nothing comparable has been done to extend the average expectation of life of adults. The present industrial conditions shorten life very markedly. From the Registrar-General's Decennial Supplement it may be deduced that, of those who survive 15 years of age, the average period of life of purely industrial workers is 49-50 years, of purely agricultural workers, 67. The National Service cards show that in several trades 50 per cent. of the workers over 40 years of age are graded as unfit for military service. Insurance statistics show that in certain occupations from 30 to 40 per cent. may be unable to work for some period in each year owing to illness. The number of deaths from consumption is 70,000 a year, a destruction of life emulating that of the war. In large cities, such as Glasgow, 48 to 50 per cent. of the population live in one or two-roomed tenements, and 50 per cent. of the children of the poor are found to be suffering from rickets. In Finsbury* the death rate per 1,000 of infants has been found to vary from 41 in well-to-do districts to 375 in the slums. Venereal disease is widely prevalent, and fills hospitals and asylums with cases of disease which might be almost wholly prevented. * Report on the Public Health of Finsbury, 1906, p. 26.
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