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 I. 523 Pagxrs. 302. Standard minimum requirements in regard to plinths, floor and subic space, light and ventilation should be prescribed by the competent authority which should have the power to condemn insanitary houses. Standard type plans to suit varying conditions should also be prepared and made available to garden managements - .. on ve 303. Workers might be encouraged, under supervision, to build bheir own houses on approved sites. Wherever possible, a number of ights should be provided in and around the housing areas: vo 304. Bathing and washing places of simple type should be cons- tructed in the vicinity of the house lines; Public Health Departments should prepare type plans +n sn “e we 305. Planters should carry out annual mass treatment of their labour forces for hook-worm .. .. . .. 306. Adequate latrine accommodation should be required in factories on plantations, and the exemption from the provisions of section 13 of the Factories Act in Bengal and Assam should be. withdrawn or 307. Women doctors should be employed by each medical group organisation for confinements in hospital, for the training and supervision of midwives and dats, and for child welfare work .. oe .. 308. The practice of giving free food to indoor patients should be adopted in all plantation hospitals ee 309. Maternity benefits should be provided for by legislation. The sash benefit to the mother should ordinarily take the form of half her daily wage for a period of 4 weeks before and 4 weeks after child-birth. In addition a bonus of Rs. 5 should be given, except where the woman refuses to avail herself of the skilled services of a woman doctor or a trained midwife provided by the employer. In the case of plantation labour the condition of a qualifying period of employment should be dispensed with .. vo a _- - So. 810. The practice of feeding non-working children without charge should be generally adopted ve Tm we a 311. Plantation managers should assist in organising suitable recreation for their workers and should provide playing fields for general secreational purposes .. 312. The employment of health visitors is desirable; the work of the health visitor should always be supervised by the garden medical officer. Where a group medical organisation exists, the woman doctor, with two or three health visitors, should organise welfare centres on each garden of the group : ge . .. . 313. When young children become orphaned and have no relations settled on the estate, the district magistrate or some suitable authority should invariably be approached to get into touch with any existing re- lations and, if a desire is expressed for the return of the child. arrange- ments should be made for repatriation - .. 314. The employment, either directly or with their parents, of child- ren before the age of 10 years should be prohibited by law. The names of all employed children should be entered in the wage-book and in the sase of children not born on a plantation and therefore without a regis. tered birth certificate, the garden doctor should be required to deter- mine the age before the child is allowed to start work .- 315. Representatives of the local Governments concerned and of the planters should meet in conference to consider what contribution each san make towards the education of children on the plantations .. 108 400 409 410 110 411-2 419 112 415 419 14 1714 115 {11&

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