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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1915. 



Table IX.d. — Accidents on Each Day op the Week, 

 U.K. Chief Factory Inspectors' Reports, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912. 



♦ Note.— In records of the accidents occurring on each day of the week, the most 

 important consideration in modification of the actual figures is the extent to which 

 short-time or over-time prevailed regularly on some days of the week and not on 

 others. Now, in the year in which the accidents of each industry were recorded the 

 Reports themselves tell us, quoting the Labour Gazette, that there was a good deal 

 of unemployment {i.e., invohmtary idleness), indicating trade depression. This 

 was especially the case with cotton in July, August, and October 1909, and at the 

 Crewe Locomotive Works in 1911; but only in the former was there regularly less 

 work on one day (Monday). 



Table X. — Accidents. 



Conditions of Employment in the Iron and Steel Indttstry. 



U.S. Senate, 62nd Congress, 1st Session, Doc. 110. 



Times of Work of each spell : 6 A.M.-6 p.m., 6 P.M.-6 a.m. 



No breaks for meals in Departments 1, 2, and 3. 

 Workers : All men. 



Accidents. 



