EPIDEMIC ORGANISATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 14 June 1919, Page 5

EPIDEMIC ORGANISATION

» . SOME OFFICIAL HINTS. (Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, June l'> , Profiting by its experience in the ' r S tllMt *"» Polished S !;;;:f^^^e?SS-on-"l^tt rSSti^^-f t deal ot overlapping on th* •-, t i^^^^ c rj-s liie^f X tUe T gestlo^ oi<™ lourds the CircuJar to Capital of a reumience of an epidemic it £ r £: &4t s hi o r x^poiri urmshmg of temporal hospital? as tnese supplies can always be used im in the ordinary course. Hu^ediu?iJg at the retail price is deprecated ■ he Department took an early stand •>n this point last year, and the shon keepers themselves, states the O H article showed a mpst patriotic IpS with the result that discounts were obtained in many eases as high as2o JjCI C6HT). vnR t S pointed out, dealing with voluntary workers, that they Cannot in many cases continue to work indefinitely fo r nothing. Moreover, the?e are some kinds of work in which it is necessary to consider primarily not whether the proffered service is to be voluntary, but whether it is essential nut the most suitable person. should he given the work. "It is not only false economy to employ unskilled '.oikeis in some classes of work merely because they are voluntary workers, doith 18Tuf^ n. a matter of life and aeatn. lhis is even so in work of purely a clerical nature, e.g., the officer m charge of the bureau that attends to calls for assistance ambulances, etc., should be a good organiser of thoroughly aWoved capacity." Generally g s/eakfogHSE Department regards 10s per day as a generous remuneration for unskilled workers. It declines to recognise the unpleasant nature of the employment for it draws a parallel with the soli aier, who did his unpleasant work for 5s per day in a time of national stress. "As a matter of fact," continues the article, "10s a day is too much to pay for some kinds of voluntary work. For instance, it is absurd that grils of fifteen and sixteen engaged simply in washing dishes should claim £3 10s per week wages on the ground that they volunteered their services on the understanding the'los per day was to be paid. In the case of another epidemic, after the names on the roll are exhausted, application should be1 made immediately for workers, and tbe scale of pay must necessarily be determined on" the. question of supply and demand, but it should be settled by due relation to a scale drawn up in regard to the nature of the work." The Department declares that persons able to pay for treatment should do so. and Av^ere :dorvtors nre worked on the block system they should furnisb a list of \ -n^xr,**. of patients to the board, which should endeavor to co^eot payment of fees from patients themselves.