FIRST AID IN FACTORIES.
Sir, —Contained in the Factories Act is a clause demanding that employers carry a modern first aid outfit to cope with any injury which may befall an employee. Through slackness on the part of inspectors and union secretaries, this law is not observed. To-day my-son is nursing a poisoned hand and going around 'drawing half-pay in consequence of such conditions, his hand, as a matter of fact, having been dressed in the first instance with some stuff alleged to be iodine and then wrapped in a dirty old piece of what might have been once a bandage. I submit that if our legislators see fit to bring about a law, such law should be enforced, and again I say that slackness on the part of those responsible for enforcement would seam the real reason for the laxity. I write to prevent somebody else's son suffering unnecessarily. A Worker.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 8
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