Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. Consideration of certain major problems

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170 MAJORITY REPORT. INQUIRIES INTO EXCESSIVE SICKNESS. 388. Very high hopes were founded on Section 63 of the Act of 1911 (Section 107 of the 1924 Act) which deals with excessive sickness ; but in fact the section has remained a dead letter. 389. We deal in Chapter XIII with the reasons for this, and offer certain suggestions intended to make more practicable the aims of the section, even if on a less ambitious scale. So far as Insurance Committees are concerned, the section would only have had application in respect of deposit contributors, and the problem would therefore have been of small magnitude. But in any case nothing has been done, so that no argument for the continuance of Insurance Committees can be inferred from the existence of this provision. HeALTH PROPAGANDA WORK. 390. Section 50 (1) (b) of the 1924 Act empowers Insurance Committees to make such provision for the giving of lectures and the publication of information on questions relating to health as they may consider desirable. It has, however, appeared in evidence given before us that only a very restricted use has been made of this power, owing mainly to lack of funds. (Brock, Q. 23,976.) 391. We feel that work of this nature may be made of the greatest possible value in the public efforts to promote health. But in our view it is open to question whether such work, under- taken in the interests of the health of the whole community, should be financed only from insurance funds. We think that duties under this head would more appropriately fall within the province of the local health authority. And our view is reinforced by the opinion of the official witness of the Ministry of Health, Mr. Maclachlan, who said: ‘Until quite recently the powers of local authorities in regard to Public Health propaganda have been very limited. That defect has been remedied by the Public Health Act of 1925 which has just passed through Parlia- ment, and which gives pretty wide powers to all local authorities to undertake education and progaganda in relation to the pre- vention and treatment of any disease.” (Q. 24,143.) If our con- clusion is accepted, it is obvious that still another branch of the work of the Committees would disappear. DeposIT CONTRIBUTORS AND NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE Found MEMBERS. 392. Lastly, we have to consider the work done by the Com- mittees in connexion with the cash benefits of deposit contri- butors and members of the Navy, Army and Air Force Insurance Fund. This is the merest routine (Kinnear and Brocl, 0. 23.981-90). A list of the deposit contributors of the area has

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