Fifth Annual report of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board : to 31st December 1924.

  • Great Britain. Industrial Fatigue Research Board.
Date:
1925
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Credit: Fifth Annual report of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board : to 31st December 1924. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 27.—Results of Investigation in Certain Industries. 1924. (15 pages). [Price 6d. net, post free 74$d.] [A synopsis of the results of investigations promoted by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board in various industries, including the textile, metal, boot and shoe, pottery, glass, and laundry industries, and light repetition work. The results have been grouped under the headings of working conditions, working methods, and administrative and miscel- laneous questions for each industry respectively, and references to the original reports where the full data are given are inserted in the text. ] No. 4.—The Incidence of Industrial Accidents upon Indi- viduals with special reference to Multiple Accidents, by Major GREENWOOD, M.R.C.P., and Hitpa M. Woops. 1919. (28 pages). [Price 6d. net, post free 74d.] [A contribution to the study of the causation of accidents, based on a statistical investigation of certain accident records kept by the Ministry of Munitions. The results indicate that accidents are largely due to a special susceptibility inherent in the personality of the individual, so that the bulk of accidents occur amongst a limited group of individuals, and that the incurring of one accident is in itself of minor importance in con- nection with the probability of incurring a second or subsequent accident. ] No. 6.—The Speed of Adaptation to altered Hours of Work, by H. M. Vernon, M.D. 1920. (33 pages). [Price ls. net, post free 1s. 14d.] [The report compares, by means of data derived from previous investigations and of others hitherto unpublished, the speed with which workers in different occupations adapt themselves to altered hours of work, and shows that whereas any increase in hourly output resulting from reduction of hours is gradual, in the converse case of a decrease in hourly output due to lengthening of hours the effect is immediate. A further important point, emphasising the interdependence of occupations in a factory system and indicating that reduction in hours may be fruitless unless an operation is considered in all its bearings, is brought out by the fact that in certain engineering processes the hourly output of women operatives working on short hours with the men tool-setters and labourers working on long hours was less than when the men’s hours were diminished and the women’s increased. ] No. 12.—Vocational Guidance (a Review of the Literature), by B. Muscio, M.A., Investigator to the Board. 1921. (57 pages). [Price ls. net, post free ls. 1}d.] [A critical survey of the literature on the subject with bibliography. ] No. 13.—A Statistical Study of Labour Turnover in Munition and other Factories, by G. M. Broucuton, M.A., ETHEL M. Newsorp, B.A., and EpitH C. ALLEN. 1921. (88 pages). [Price 3s. net, post free 3s. 2d.] [The report deals with the labour turnover (7.e., the rate of change in the working stafi) between the years 1916 and 1920 in ten munition and three other factories, and is based largely on the employment records already available at the Ministry of Munitions. It points out the advantages (17133) Cc