Abstract
IN the brief preface with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduces this book to the public, he repeats the statement that “we Have swept into the National Insurance scheme some 10,000,000 workers hitherto unprovided for,” in other words, that one-fourth of the population of the United Kingdom are workers (not of the lowest class) who have not hitherto “provided for” themselves in sickness. He ignores the multitude of members of unregistered friendly societies, and of other persons who have hitherto provided for themselves in sickness to their own satisfaction. The authors of the book have fallen into the same error (see p. 98).
National Insurance.
By A. S. Comyns Carr W. H. Stuart Garnett J. H. Taylor. With a preface by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P. Pp. xxxi + 504. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 6s. net.
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National Insurance . Nature 89, 133–134 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089133b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089133b0
