Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIV. - Health and welfare of the industrial worker

Collection:: Economics Books

254 ..& CHAPTER XIV, _ ..: more statistical officers will be required. Asin Britain, the staff need not be large, and the necessary specialised training can be acquired after appointment. We therefore suggest that the Association should send suitable candidates, holding the necessary preliminary qualifications, to Europe for their initial training. When the nucleus of a trained staff has been obtained, Indian industry should be able to secure research into the effect on output of hours, temperature and other factors, the suitability of the present meal and rest intervals for the Indian worker, the relations between fatigue and accidents and other problems of a like nature that the conversion of an agriculturalist into an industrialist makes pecu- liarly important in this country. Health Administration. In some provinces a great advance has been achieved during recent years in the organisation of their Public Health Departments, but Madras Presidency is the only province which so far includes a woman Assistant Director in its Public Health Department. We recommend that, particularly in the more industrialised provinces of Bengal and Bombay, such appointments should be made. The organisation, co-ordi- nation and supervision of all forms of welfare work among women and children require expert control, and we feel that this can only be obtained if the initiative in these directions is definitely taken by local Governments. In addition, every provincial Public Health Department should be strengthened by the appointment of a trained statistical officer to take charge of all statistical records and to carry out special investigations in regard to the incidence of sickness and disease in special areas and for special groups of the population. For some years past health propaganda work has been developed in most provinces with success. There can be no question as to the necessity for greater extension of that form of education both by Government and local authorities. Every municipal area, also, should have its own Medical Officer of Health and an adequate sanitary staff. Under the existing Local Self-Government Acts municipal councils have been given almost complete responsibility for public health, but in many of the areas visited by us we were unfavour- ably impressed with the standard of health administration and with the manner in which these duties have been performed. Health Officers are to be found in most of the larger municipalities, but their work is too often ineffective, because they have incomplete control of the health organisa- tions or because their recommendations fail to receive active consideration from their councils. It is important that security of tenure for these offi- cers should be ensured and, to obtain this, we recommend that they should belong to a Government cadre, although their salaries and allowances should be a charge on municipal funds. In all extra-municipal areas where industry is being developed, a similar health staff should be at work, as it is particularly in such areas that strict supervision should be main- tained from the start. Greater pressure could be exerted on local boards and municipalities by local Governments, if the practice in force in Great Britain were adopted of giving percentage grants towards expenditure on health measures.

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