English Translation

h2 8 VI. Propulsion of Czech doctors. The lack of work found within the Protectorate is reflected in the ever-increasing number of cases of illness. The Czech doctors are generally equally willing to recognise the prospective patient as ill on the basis of his or her information. At present 8.14% of the workforce of the Witkowitz ironworks (without pits) are sickly reported. The average number of sick reports among mining companies is 10%. The increase in the number of ill cases in the ironworks is around 7oo man for the period 27.7. - 8.9.1942. At the BMB workshops in Pilsen, an average of 3oo men are sick. In a workshop of the Skoda plants in Pilsen, where on average 8oo - 9oo workers are employed, there are permanent 25 - 1oo workers sick. An example of special propensity to work by Czech doctors was found in Olmütz. From the Olomouc area several hundred workers for grubbing-up work in the Pilsner area were conveyed by the Olmutzer Arbeitsamt. From the labour camp, to which about 6oo workers belonged, not too long ago some 2oo workers illegally returned to their home places. These workers were able to obtain certificates from Czech doctors that they were unable to work, e.g. that they could not meet the requirements. According to the reports available so far, the Czech doctors attribute each disease to the current nutritional situation, which the workers take with satisfaction, as they can point to the poor diet with even greater emphasis, with declining labour performance. The doctors prefer to find stomach ulcers, since they are not immediately detectable, require a special diet and make the worker incapacitated, but at least less efficient. In this unfortunately, an "irrtum" from the doctor is easily possible. It is understandable that the Czech workers speak quickly, which doctor is slightly inclined to write sick things. Thus, in this regard, the health insurance doctor, Dr. Kr a č m a r , Frankstadt, known as the fanatic Czech, has emerged, whose number of patients is increasing enormously ./.