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77 with his doctor ill and is recognized with influence - increased temperature.With this confirmation the illness report on the 3l.l0. to the institution, is immediately brought from the counter to the chief physician and from these for the 4.ll. If he is declared capable of working at 4.ll.l940, this is already 8 days and travel costs - but he will usually still be able to work for 3 to 4 days, probably as it usually happens, until the weekend, so this is 14 days' sickness allowance and travel expenses at a simple influenza, which would have been eliminated from the medical profession at 3 to 5 days, or at weekends from the doctor.These cases are in the majority in daily practice. Even worse, the cases for the institution subject to the specialist medical examination have an effect, especially stomach and lung diseases,which occur on average 3 to 5 days of the examination until it is explained that there are no acute symptoms.Beer is compensated for the time delay of the insured person by subsequent recognition of the sickness allowance,which usually lasts until the weekend. All these defects would be corrected if the treating physician were to be involved if he himself had to bear the responsibility and would also be held accountable if he did not act objectively in accordance with the directives on legal provisions. Health care provision in the district of Brno and the possibility of working is by no means so bad that the use of 45 % of insurance contributions for sickness benefits would be fair. As regards the additional benefits in maternity benefit and funeral allowance, these additional expenditures are justified by the stated facts : more births and more deaths - which have no potential to influence the institution, as well as the increased wage classes, The Executive Board of Abt.V Brno,on 26.0ktober 1940. Ricker e.h.