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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APPENDIX IL 511 PAGES. (5) The law should be applicable to factories, mines, railways and plantations and should provide for possible extensions to other branches of industry Ta Cra PrER X1V.—HEALTH AND WELFARE OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER. 192. Still-births should be excluded from birth and death registers and separately recorded .. . - 193. Municipal councils and local bodies should devote more atten- tion to vital statistics and at least in the larger towns and more impor tant industrial areas the appointment of medical registrars should be compulsory ‘ce i. 194. India should have an Tostitute of Nutrition, as recommended by the Agricultural Commission, with a Director and sufficient number of qualified assistants. Publicity work should be part of its functions, propaganda material being prepared under supervision of the Director in consultation with provincial Public Health Departments we ve 195. Local authorities should construct sanitary markets in all urban and industrial areas ie .e we 196. Adulteration of Foods Acts should be in force in all provinces and local Governments should endeavour to make their provisions more widely applicable. Severer penalties should be provided and a clause regulating importation and sale of condensed skimmed milk should, if possible, be incorporated .e 197. In industrial provinces Public Health Departments should be strengthened to deal with industrial hygiene and industrial disease ; at least one of the Assistant Directors of Public Health should have special knowledge of these subjects ee - .. 198. Medical inspectors of factories and mines should devote special attention to industrial disease .. ae 0% .- .. 199. Industrial health research should be entrusted to the Indian Research Fund Association - - . “. pu 200. (a) Women should be appointed to public bealth staffs particu. larly in the more industrialised provinces. (b) Initiative in welfare work among women and children should be taken by local Governments. . (c) Every provincial Public Health Department should have a trained statistical officer. (d) Health propaganda should be carried on by Government and local authorities. (e) Every municipal area should have its own Medical Officer of Health and adequate sanitary staff. (f) Municipal health officers should belong to a Government cadre though paid by municipal funds. (g) A similar health staff should be at work in extra-municipal areas where industry is being developed .. % “i i. 201. Comprehensive Public Health Acts should be passed in all provinces ais .. - ‘5 .. 202. (a) Where piped water supplies are not available special pre- cautions as to purity should be taken. (b) Where industry begins to develop in & new area, it should be the duty of employers to provide suitable water for their workers. 241 249 250 251 251 259 259 253 253-4 264 255

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