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 XV. - Housing of the industrial worker

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280 CHAPTER XV, to find the lesser sites sufficient to accommodate these small blocks of houses than the larger sites required for long barrack lines. As electric power is available on most of the collieries, it might be possible, without undue expenditure. to erect standard lights in and around the house lines. Prevention of Overcrowding. To the great influx of labour and the deficiency of housing ac- commodation at certain periods of the year is added overcrowding. This is further intensified by the custom of gangs of one class crowding to- gether in the rooms of one block rather than occupying rooms in separate or distant blocks, a tendency which it is always difficult for employers bo overcome. If, as was indicated to us, there is the further difficulty of workers on different shifts deliberately and of choice occupying one set of rooms alternately, even when others are lying vacant, the Board’s health staff should take every possible step to prohibit such occurrences. Sanitary Arrangements. Sanitary arrangements in the mines housing areas are by no means satisfactory. Latrine accommodation is inadequate, and there is room for an increase in bathing and washing places near the lines, most of the population using surface tanks for these purposes. Even if the provision of washing and bathing places in individual houses is not practicable, it should be possible to extend the practice of certain employers who have built simple structures for such purposes in the vicinity of each block of houses. Fitted with taps and provided with drains to remove foul water, these would add greatly to the amenities of life for the miner. A more general construction of latrines of types approved by the Boards of Health and Welfare should also be put in hand, and sufficient numbers to meet the needs of both sexes erected at suitably convenient distances. Where piped water is available, flush-out septic-tank latrines should be installed in preference to other types. Moratoria. Owing to financial depression in the coal industry, the Boards of Health have unfortunately found it impossible to insist upon close adherence to the standards laid down in their bye-laws. The Jharia Board, for example, has granted moratoria annually since 1926, so that since that date the carrying out of definite programmes has been in abeyance. Standard specifications, however, have been adhered to in the case of new construction and also in the reconditioning of houses which have fallen into such a state of disrepair as to require rebuilding. The complicated system in force in the Jharia ares of issuing licence forms of different colours for different grades of housing accommodation, I our opinion, should be abolished forthwith. We believe that the System is overweighted with forms, and at least some of these licences have been used for the purpose of postponing urgently required improve- ments. Even during the moratorium, regular programmes of construe- tion and reconstruction have been carried out on some collieries. so

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