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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    Brownlee and Professor E. L. Collis, and into the effects of migration from country to industrial cities with special reference to phthisis incidence conducted by Mr. A. B. Hill. The results of these investigations will be published as reports of the Medical Research Council, but having regard to their industrial interest, mention of them is here made. It often happens, especially in social investigations, that some of the qualities examined can only be classified in two or more broad groups, so that statistical analysis involves variables to which numerical values cannot be given. A technical study has been completed by Miss Newbold for the Committee with the object of assessing the measure of confidence that can be put in correlational results based on data of this kind. The constitution of the Committee has been strengthened by the addition of Dr. T. H. C. Stevenson of the General Register Office. Physiology of Muscular Work.—The Committee has collabo- rated closely with the Board in regard to an important part of their functions, namely the investigation of heavy manual labour, and has also initiated and supervised the researches specified on p. 17. The Board wish to record their appreciation of the valuable work done for this Committee by Dr. B. A. McSwiney, who resigned the Secretaryship as from the end of last year. The Board with great regret have to report the death at the age of 32 of Mr. Hartley Lupton, B.Sc., after a brief illness. Mr. Lupton had for three years worked under the direction of Professor A. V. Hill for the Committee on Physiology of Muscular Work, and the recent progress in the application of the modern physiology of muscle to the practical life of man is largely due to his work. Industrial Psychology.—A large part of the work carried out _ by the Board, dealing with light repetitive work and accident causation, has fallen naturally within the scope of this Committee, which is also responsible for the general supervision of the various researches on psychological subjects (p. 20). Special Committees. The special Committees appointed to review periodically the progress of investigations from different scientific aspects have again proved of great assistance to the Board. They are now five in number, dealing respectively with Post Office Work, Hours of Work, Accident Causation, Design of Machinery, and Physiology of Ventilation. The Board are glad to report that the Post Office have acceded to their request that Colonel H. V. Prynne; C.B.E., D.S.O., Chief Medical Officer, and Mr. John Lee, C.B.E., Controller of the Central Telegraph Office, should join the Committee on Post Office Work appointed to supervise the investi- gation of Telegraphists’ Cramp (p. 15), which has been further | _ (17133) A3