INDUSTRY AND MEDICINE AMERICAN STYLE

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1946, Page 6

INDUSTRY AND MEDICINE AMERICAN STYLE

While New Zealand worries over its State controlled medical service, with the periodic allegations of over expenditure and malpractice, other countries and other peoples too, have realised the need for adequate medical facilities for the populace. America, with its hordes of industrial workers, can afford to do things on a grandiose scale, including a production company having its own medical service, particularly when one concern alone em-' ploys 100,000 workers, enough to make five Wanganuis. Such a scheme is operated by Henry J. Kaiser, of Liberty ship fame, and details of this American shipbuilder’s achievement in providing first class medical services for the hundred thousand workers in his industrial plants are contained in a book “Kaiser Wakes the Doctors,” by Paul de Kruif W'hich has been acquired by the Wanganui Public Library in its latest selection of non-fiction titles. The book shows how a complete modern medical service can be run without Government subsidies of any kind, and how, while the controversial issue of State-aided or provided medical service (such as the Beveridge plan) is being considered, one employer with imagination has pioneered and shown the lasting benefit to industry and production of adequate medical care and attention.

NON-FICTION BOOKS. The full list of new additions is:— “A Star Danced” (Gertrude Lawrence), “Home to India” (Santha Rama Ran), “Solution in Asia” (Owen Lattimore), “The Night is Ending” (Norman N. G. Cope), “Sunday at .09.35 hours; Addresses on a Royal Air Force Station (Arthur J. Hichens), “Arabia Phoenix;” an account of a visit to Ibn Saud, chieftain of the austere Wahabis and powerful Arabian king (Gerald De Gaury), “I’ve Been Around” (Ida Hurst), “Happy Days!” Essays of sorts (E. A. Somerville and Martin Woss), “Dressmaking and Dress Design”’ (Bernard Del Monte). “Quebec,” historic seaport (Mazo De la Roche), “MidPacific Outposts” (Albert Ellis), “In Search of Australia” (P. J. Hurley), “Art and Regeneration'* (Maria Petrie), “Victory Salvo” (Buster Gun), “Sir Enid Blyton Plays” (Enia Blyton), “The Life of Oscar Wilde” (Hesketh Pearson), “Memories of Mountains and Men” (Arthur P. Harper), “Radio Talks on Health” (H. B. Turbott), “Alternating Current Bridge Methods” (B. Hague), “The Great Divorce; a Dream” (C. S. Lewis, “Doctors Anonymous; the story of laboratory medicine (William McKee German). “Glory Hill Farm; epilogue (Clifton Reynolds), “Kaiser Wakes the Doctors” (Paul De Kruiff), “Burmese Outpost” (Anthony Irwin), “Debussy,” second edition (Edward Lockspeiser), “My Friends the Apes” (Belle J. Benchley), “Inheritance of Dreams” (John Drummond), “We Built a House” (Roy C. Cole), “Jungle Jungle Little Chindit” (Major Patrick Boyle and Major jon MusgraveWood). “Jungle Pilot” (Barry Sutton), “With the Watchmaker at the Bench” (Donald De Carle), “An Introduction to the Geology of NewSouth Wales” (C. A. Sussmilch), “The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field” (Hugh Miller). “Well Fare the Plough” (Elizabeth M. Harland), “Reflections in a Mirror,” second series (Charles Morgan).