MINORITY REPORT. 
and the productive capacity of the country should from 
time to time be struck, even though this can probably be done 
only in a very general way and without reduction to any precise 
formula.”* But since everything which impairs efficiency reduces 
that productive capacity, the final balance will not be realised 
till we have carried all our social services to perfection. Our 
recommendations at this moment are, however, confined to those 
which appear to us urgently necessary, and immediately practic- 
able. 
63. Social services, as has been well shown in the Mgjority 
Report, are financed from various sources. The State, the 
Local Authority, and various systems of insurance supply the 
funds, and it is impossible to draw a hard-and-fast line between 
the services to which we should contribute as taxpayers or rate- 
payers, or as employers and employed persons. We do not 
subscribe to the distinction drawn between social services con- 
ducted in the interest of the individual, and similar services 
conducted for the general well-being of the community, since the 
‘“ well-being of the community >’ is involved in all. In this 
connexion we feel that there is cogency in the representations 
made to us, that the contributions of employer and employed to 
National Health Insurance should alike be reduced and the 
State’s contribution proportionately increased (National -Con- 
federation of Employers’ Organisations, App. CVIL, 28). The 
salient fact is that for every deficiency in our social services, 
someone pays. We can alter the incidence of payment, and 
treat our obligations as matters to be supplemented by the Poor 
Law, or by voluntary aid, but the only case in which we pay 
without return is in support of the disabled, who could by larger 
preventive outlay have given us the return of efficient healthy 
labour. While we feel that our present methods of conducting 
our social services are expensive and over-lapping, and that real 
economies are to be effected from their unification, we also feel 
that any further moneys needed for the services indicated below 
will go far to relieve us of the ** burdens ”’ (properly so-called) 
described by Sir George Newman and the accredited officers of 
the Ministry of Health. 
MEDICAL BENEFIT. 
64. We support the recommendations of the Majority Report 
to extend the scope of medical benefit, but it should be noted that 
Parliamentary grants were voted in 1914 for services, the develop- 
ment of some of which has not been undertaken owing to War 
conditions. Such services included :— 
(1) Medical referees. 
(2) Medical experts 
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