Full text : Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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APPENDIX 1.

(¢) Where development takes place on the out-skirts of 4 muni.
cipal area the industry and the municipality should co-operate to avoid
sompetition for available sources for the supply of water ie .
203. (a) Every provincial health department should include a malariologist
 on its headquarters staff . . ve oe we ..
(5) Every railway administration should employ a full-time
malariologist and should give a lead in anti-malarial activities to the
local bodies in their areas ” “ "i % .2
(¢) Boards of Health and Welfare in mining areas should include
on their medical staff an officer with expert knowledge of malaria and its
prevention ih xs FP
204. Surveys should be made by Government medical departments
of the medical facilities required in urban and industria] areas, These
surveys should be considered at joint conferences of the parties interestod.


Public Health Acts and percentage grants should enable Govern.
ment to supervise, inspect and insist on minimum standards. . vs
205. There should be a mare general extension on the part of the
employer of welfare work in its broader sense “i ve oo
206. A hospital of any size should have a woman doctor on its staff
who should be in charge of all activities dealing with the health and welfate
 of women and children - . .e ’s
207. A Government diploma for health visitors should be instituted
88 the recognised qualification required of all women aspiring to such
posts ,. am Ye

208. In the larger jute and cotton industrial areas, mills and facto
ries should organise in groups, each establishment having its own welfare
centre and health visitor under the supervision of a woman doctor em.
ployed by the group we wo
209. In the larger industrial areas Government, local authorities and
industrial managements should co-operate in the development of child
welfare centres and women’s clinics, Government should give percen-‘age
 grants for approved schemes oe . . .
210. Trained midwives should be obtained for work in welfare and
maternity centres - .. we .- we .
211. Maternity benefit legislation should be enacted throughout
India on the lines of the schemes operating in Bombay and the Central
Provinces .n .e
(a) Legislation should be confined to women employed full time in
perennial factories covered by the Factories Act i” aw os
(8) The scheme should be non-contributory : in the first instance
the entire cost of benefit should be borne by the employer  ., oe
(¢) Government should have power to exempt individual firms whose
existing schemes are at least as liberal ag those contained in the Act ..
(d) In the event of any general scheme of social insurance being
adopted, maternity benefits should be incorporated and the cost shared
by the State, the employer and the worker . . . ve Vx
(e) The rate of benefit given by the Central Provinces Act is suitable
for general application .. ve #5 - ve we
(f) The maximum benefit period should be 4 weeks before and 4
weeks after childbirth .. ve Ye

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