§ 44. Colonel WOODCOCKasked the Minister of Labour whether any effect has been given to the unanimous resolution of the Conference of the International Labour Organisation, Washington, 1919, that an advisory committee, on which the Governments, the employers, and the workers shall all be represented, shall be appointed without delay to keep in touch with the work of the Health Section of the International Labour Organisation?
§ Mr. BETTERTONSo far as I have been able to ascertain up to the present, 616 the only committee appointed, as a result of the Washington resolution, to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers, is the Correspondence Committee on Industrial Hygiene. That committee, however, consists of experts, and not, as laid down by the Washington resolution, of representatives of Governments, employers, and workers.
§ Colonel WOODCOCKCan the hon. Gentleman explain why it is that this definite instruction has not been carried out during the preceding six years? Does not that show that these unanimous resolutions passed by the organisation are simply pious hopes?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI cannot answer the first part of my hon. and gallant Friend's supplementary question. With regard to the latter part, he must draw his own conclusions.
§ 46. Colonel WOODCOCKasked the Minister of Labour whether a comprehensive encyclopædia of industrial hygiene is being prepared by the International Labour Office; whether he can furnish the House with a list of the experts in industrial hygiene chosen as expert collaborators for such work, and the proportion of British experts in such list: whether these expert collaborators are nominated by the governing body or by the officials of the International Labour Office; and whether the Director of the International Labour Office claims the right to consult in the preparation of this encyclopædia such of the expert collaborators as he thinks fit, and without reference to the governing body?
§ Mr. BETTERTONAs the answer is necessarily long, I will, with my hon. and gallant Friend's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
§ The answer to the first and last parts of this question is in the affirmative. A list is given below of the experts who are understood to have been collaborating with the International Labour Office up to the present in the preparation of the encyclopædia. Of the 66 experts, four are British. As regards the third part of the question, some of the experts are members of the Correspondence Committee on Industrial Hygiene of the International 617 Labour Office. The approval of the governing body is obtained before experts are added to this Committee. As far as I am aware, the remaining expert collaborators have been selected by the Director of the International Labour Office.
§ LIST of the EXPERTS who are collaborating with the International Labour Office in the preparation of the Encyclopædia of Hygiene, Pathology and Social Welfare.
§ (Members of the Correspondence Committee on Industrial Hygiene are indicated by an asterisk (*).)
- Agasse-Lafont, Dr., Head of the Department of Pathology, Professor at the Institute of Industrial Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Paris.
- Allevi, G., Lecturer in industrial pathology, University of Milan.
- Balthazard, V., Professor of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Paris. Member of the Academy of Medicine.
- Bayet, Dr., Professor of the Free University of Brussels.
- *Biondi, C., Director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Sienna.
- *Boulin, P., Divisional Factory Inspector, Lille.
- *Brezina, E., Professor of the Polytechnic School, Vienna.
- *Chajes, B., Lecturer at the Charlotten-burg Polytechnic School, Berlin.
- Clark, J., Director of the Medical Department of the Norton Company, Worcester (Mass.).
- *Collis, Edgar L., Talbot Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Wales.
- *Cristiani, H., Director of the Institute of Hygiene, University of Geneva.
- Dearden, W. F., Certifying Surgeon, Secretary of the Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons, Manchester.
- Devoto, L., Director of the Clinic for Occupational Diseases, University of Milan.
- Engel, Dr., of the Federal Public Health Office, Germany.
- Ferrannini, L., Director of the Clinic for Occupational Diseases, University of Naples.
- Fischer, Dr., President of the Council of the Federal Insurance Office, Germany.
- Frey, Dr., Director in the Federal Public Health Office, Germany.
- Frois, M., Factory Inspector, Paris.
- Fuss, Mme., Doctor of Medicine.
- Gaster, L., Secretary of the Illuminating Engineering Society of Great Britain, London.
- Giovanni, De J., Director of the Medical Department of the Sicilian Sulphur Mines Consortium, Caltanissetta.
- *Glibert, D., Chief Inspector, Ministry of Industry, Labour and Social Welfare, Brussels.
- *Hamilton, Alice, Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School, United States.
- Hayhurst, Emery R., Profeseor of Hygiene, Ohio State University, Columbus.
- *Heim, F., Director of the Institute of Industrial Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Paris.
- Heyermans, L., Director of the Health Department of the City of Amsterdam.
- Hoffmann, Dr., Statistician, Prudential Insurance Company, New York.
- Holtzmann, Prof., Medical Inspector, Carlsruhe, Baden.
- Jellinek, S., Director of the Electro-pathological Museum, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Vienna.
- Kober, G., Professor of Hygiene, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
- *Koelsch, F., Medical Inspector of Factories, Bavaria; Lecturer at the University of Munich.
- Kohn-Abrest, E., Director of the Toxicological Laboratories of the Prefecture of Police, Paris.
- *Kranenburg, Dr., Medical Adviser to the General Labour Department, The Hague.
- Krantz, Dr., Ministerial Councillor, Dresden.
- *Legge, Sir Thomas, Senior Medical Inspector of Factories, Home Office, London.
- Lehmann, H. K., Director of the Institute of Hygiene, University of Wurzburg.
- *Lorange, O., Director of the Factory Inspectorate, Oslo.
- *Loriga, G., Chief Medical Inspector of Factories, Ministry of National Economy, Rome.
- Malvoz, Dr., Director of the Provincial Institute of Bacteriology, Liege.
- Martin, E., Professor of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lyons.
- *Massarelli, F., Engineer, Director of the Association of Italian Manufacturers for the Prevention of Accidents, Milan.
- Mori, A., Lecturer in Industrial Pathology, Director of the Piombino Hospital, Italy.
- Oblath, O., Lecturer in Ophthalmology, Trieste.
- Ottolenghi, D., Director of the Institute of Hygiene, University of Bologna.
- Perussia, F., Professor of Roentgenology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan.
- Pittaluca, G., Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Madrid.
- Preti, L., Assistant Professor, Clinic for Occupational Diseases, University of Milan.
- Price, G. M., Director of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control in the Ladies' Garment Industries, New York.
- Ranelletti, A., Lecturer in Industrial Pathology; formerly Medical Inspector of Factories, Municipality of Rome.
- Rasch, H., Director of the Factory Inspectorate, Hamburg.
- Rubino, C., Lecturer in Industrial Pathology, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Pathological Medicine, University of Genoa.
- Sand, R., Secretary-General of the League of Red Cross Societies, Paris.
- Sayers, Dr., Chief Surgeon, Bureau of Mines, U.S. Public Health Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
- Schmidt, P., Director of the Medical Clinic, University of Halle, Germany.
- Sclavo, A., Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sienna.
- Silberschmidt, Dr., Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich.
- Teleky, Prof., District Industrial Medical Officer, Dusseldorf.
- Thiele, Prof., District Industrial Medical Officer, Dresden.
- Thompson, Gilman, New York.
- Wade Wright, Dr., New York.
- Wenzel, Industrial Councillor, Berlin.
- Weisweiller, L., General Secretary of the International Union for Combating Venereal Disease.
- *Winslow, C., Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
- *Wirgin, Dr., Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Upsala, Sweden.
- Zangger, H., Director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich.
- *Zielinski, Dr. J., of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Warsaw.
§ Colonel WOODCOCKDoes not the hon. Gentleman think that books of this sort should be under the management of the governing body, and not of the officials?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI think that perhaps my hon. and gallant Friend had better wait and see my answer. I am not prepared to accept his statement as accurate.