THE QUESTION OF FATIGUE FROM THE ECONOMIC STANDPOINT. 283 



The Question of Fatigue from the Economic Standpoint. — 

 Interim Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor 

 J. H. MuiEHEAD {Chairman), Miss B. L. Hutchins (Secre- 

 tary), Mr. P. Sargant Florence (Organising Secretary), 

 Miss A. M. Anderson, Professor Bainbridge, Mr. E. 

 Cadbury, Professor S. J. Chapman, Professor Stanley Kent, 

 Dr. Maitland, Miss M. C. Matheson, Mrs. Meredith, 

 Dr. C. S. Myers, Mr. C. K Ogden, Mr. J. W. Eamsbottom, 

 and Dr. J. Jenkins Eobb. 



The following Report has been drawn up by Mr. P. Sargant Florence. 

 Besides this and in a measure incorporated in it are memoranda pre- 

 sented to the Committee by Mr. J. W. Eamsbottom, Dr. Brown, Mi. 

 A. Greenwood, Professor Bainbridge, and Miss B. L. Hutchins, and a 

 subsidiary psychological investigation by Mr. C. K. Ogden. The latter 

 includes a translation of Max Weber's ' Zur Psychophysik der indus- 

 triellen Arbeit ' (see Index D8) and a complete bibliography of the 

 Psychology of Fatigue. 



CONTENTS. 



SECTION PAGE 



I. The Nature and Causes of Fatigue 284 



I.A. The Nature of the Work 286 



I.E. Conditions of Factory Hygiene .... 292 

 IL The Tests of Fatigue to be adopted. Output and Accident Time- 

 Distribution 295 



III. How far do these Tests vary with Fatigue ? 299 



IV. How far do these Tests vary onhj with Fatigue ? 302 



V. Chaiacteristics of the Actual Time-Distribution 305 



A. General 305 



B. Particular. 1, For different conditions of factory hygiene . 313 



2, For different workers 314 



3, For different kinds of work .... 315 



4, For different factory organisatior.s . . 320 

 VI. Statistical Tables and Diagrams 323 



Table 



VII. Index of Documents and Books Quoted (Numbered and in Sections A,B, C,D). 



