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Show Holland's 1,000,000 Wage Earners. With 5,500,000 Inhabitants Holland haB 1,000,000 wage earners. Sickness Insurance Is voluntary and organized in tree associations. In 1890 thero were 650 associations, with 600,000 members. Premiums nro $1.44 a member; benefits are medical attendance, attend-ance, medicine and sickness payments pay-ments Accident Insurance Is compulsory (law of 1901). Workmen nnd foremen in manufactories (up to $1.6S dally wages) arc Insured In a state fund, mutual associations or casualty companies. com-panies. In 1904 there were 84,046 Insured In-sured establishments. Premiums nre paid by employes a according to wages and risk. Tho receipts of 1904 were $888,000. The benefits are (a) disability, disa-bility, freo treatment nnd dally payments pay-ments up ,to 70 per cent, of wages; (b) permanent disability, pensions up to 70 per cent, of wages from soventh week; (c) to dependents of deceased, pensions up to 60 per cent, of wages nnd n death benefit of thirty times the dally wage. In case of willfulness no indemnity is paid, and in caso of drunkenness only half. Six hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars were paid (1904) to 45,902 Injured and 22G killed. Settlements aro made In caBO of doubt by councils. Prof. Henderson Hender-son In Charities and the Commons. |