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certainly want them to retire. They must be relieved of their more
onerous duties and they must make way to allow for promotion amongst
the junior ranks.
Older people excel in experience, patience, in wisdom and breadth
of vision; the young are noted for energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, the
capacity to learn new things, to adapt themselves and to innovate. These
general attributes of older people and the young give some idea of the
division in work which must be made.
What we want to do for these old people is to give them tasks without
any reference to time and let them work in their own time and at their
own pace and pay them for the work they do. I see no reason why an old
medical officer, who examined thousands and thousands of school children,
should not be apportioned so many schools, particularly in the country, to
look after, and why he should not be allowed, subject to the teaching
requirements of the schools, to carry out his work in his own time and at
his own speed!
EMPLOYMENT
Mr. G. W. Vincent, of the Barking Employment Exchange, has
kindly supplied me with the following information regarding employment
in Barking:—
"During 1950, the employment position in Barking for skilled
and unskilled workers was good, and the level of unemployment
remained low. In December, 1950, only 202 persons were registered
as unemployed. The proportion of disabled persons unemployed
was also very small.
"The Remploy Factory in Thames Road provides employment
for persons who are so severely disabled as to require specially sheltered
conditions.
"The service of the Industrial Rehabilitation Centre at Egham
is available for the residents of Barking. This Centre provides courses
for disabled persons who, though not under medical treatment, have
lost touch with working conditions, or are unable because of their
disability to follow their previous occupations. The courses are not
directly vocational, but are designed to restore fitness and confidence,
to allow a gradual readjustment to working conditions, and to test
the suitability of the disabled person for particular kinds of work."
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