Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages some groups of workers, such as those engaged in dangerous processes (as in T.N.T. filling) and for young women to increase their resistance against tuberculosis (see pages 9 and 16). The milk industry is still against the universal and compulsory pasteurisation of milk,...
| 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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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/5BC794FA-FE01-49E7-84C9-2E389621A3BD http://hdl.handle.net/10796/EC56602F-D6E7-4F8F-A137-85368659E680 |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
some groups of workers, such as those engaged in dangerous processes (as in T.N.T. filling) and for young women to increase their resistance against tuberculosis (see pages 9 and 16). The milk industry is still against the universal and compulsory pasteurisation of milk, and so prevents a measure which could completely stamp out bovine tuberculosis. It is impossible in a comparatively short space to do more than mention some of the problems facing the nation and the health workers in the existing situation. With the opening of the Second Front the people of Britain will become more acutely aware of the part they are playing in the war. Health workers must anticipate the calls that will be made on their services and must take their place fully and consciously alongside other workers and soldiers in the fight for the destruction of fascism. 3. WAGE AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF HEALTH WORKERS If all staff engaged in the Health Services are to be fully mobilised for the maximum war effort it is imperative that their requirements should be met in regard to reasonable wages and conditions of work. In many respects these were (and in some cases still are) notoriously bad, although difficulties created by the war have forced the majority of hospitals during the past year or so to make certain improvements, especially for trained nurses and female domestics. Further improvements will have to be made, however, particularly in nurses' conditions of work, if sufficient numbers are to be recruited annually to meet both immediate and future demands. There can be no question of the extreme importance of the Health Services in the National Effort, but this importance must be given concrete recognition. We say, therefore, that living and working conditions which for the majority of health workers (e.g. nurses and other resident staff) are more intimately related than amongst most workers must be immediately improved and accompanied by an all-round revision of wage and salary rates. The Communist Party will continue to press for this both in 18
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