Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of a national health service had originally been estimated at ?100 million annually, then revised upwards an additional ?61 million by the time the plan went into effect last July. Now, eight months later, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan announced that the Health Service would need ?58,455,000 more than its budget had planned. Thundered Winston Churchill: "Grossest carelessness . . . wild miscalculations...
...physicians had now joined the plan. "Had they not come in," Bevan declared triumphantly, "I should not have had a deficit, but a surplus. I should have been praised by the Opposition for being a financial success-but I should have been a failure as a Minister of Health...
Labor members whooped and cheered. Bevan got his extra ?58 million. A fitting epilogue came from Bristol, where a workingman feeding sea gulls sneezed his false teeth into the harbor and was voted a new set by the local health officials. Generously, they held he had lost his teeth "by accident and not carelessness...
...marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...time the village clerk returned, Rensburg was the talk of the town and all Hennenman was scrubbing itself clean. The town clerk called the provincial health department, just to make sure that everything was all right. It wasn't: the health department knew of no such man as Rensburg. Neither did any other government department. The clerk called the cops...