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the question of fatigue from the economic standpoint. 34d 

 Seotion VIT. — Index of Documents and Books Quoted. 



Goldmark, Josephine, Riissel Sage Foundation. ' Fatigue and Efficienrj'.' Large 

 edition with Part II., ' The .sub.stance of four bricf.s.' Chaiitie.s Publication 

 Committee, New York, 1912. Besides the advocacy of practical legislative 

 reforms, Miss Goldmark gives admirable .summaries of all records, e.xpeiimcnts, 

 and investigations of the economic effects of fatigue, many loferences to which 

 are made below. 



B. Records. 



Bl. United Kingdom. Departmental Committee on Accidents, 1911. Cd. 5540. Among 

 the Minutes of Evidence the following relate positively and authoritatively to 

 the question of fatigue. 9485-9512 Mr. Knott gives number of accidents in 

 the Dyeing and Bleaching Industry for periods 9 a.m.-I p.m., 1 p.m. -4 p.m., and 

 two halves of the week, and explains their features on the basis of fatigue and 

 anticipatory excitement. 13180 ff., 5803 fi. . . . The influence of long hours and 

 night work is discussed in increasing the rate of accident through fatigue. In- 

 dividual cases are cited, particularh' of young persons. In the Report itself aic 

 siven all the accident time-distributions for the Cotton Indu.stry cjuoted in 

 Table IX. a and Diagram II., and fatigue is discussed on page 15 ; but since it 

 was the alarming increase of accidents from year to year that called the Com- 

 mittee the daily or weekly curve does not occupy them. 



B2. United Kingdom. — Chief Factory Inspectors' Reports. Contain studies of 

 accident time-distribution in selected industries, as follows : — 



1909. Cotton Industry. 



1910. Shipbuilding. 



1911. Automotor and Locomotive Manufacture. 



1912. Iron and Steel Foundries. 



Quoted Tables IX. a, b, c, d. 



B3. Belgium. — Rapport.s Annuels de I'lnspection du Travail, 1907. Page 204 gives 

 charts showing the number of accidents in the district of Ghent for each hour of 

 each day of the week. See Goldmark, Part II. (p. 202). Quoted Table XIV. 



B4. Germnny. — Imperial Insurance Department. U.S. Bureau of Labour Bulletin 

 No. 92, ' Industrial Accidents in Germany,' summarises the decennial ' Amt- 

 liche Nachrichten des Reichsversicherungsamts ' for 1897 and 1907, quoted 

 Table XVI. U.S. Commissioner of Labour, 24th Annual Report, summarises 

 the ' Nachrichten ' for 1890, quoted Table XV. 



B5. U.S. Senate. — 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Doc. 645, Women and Child Wage- 

 earners. — Vol. XL, p. 99, gives accident and output time-distributions among 

 press hands and in the metal trade generally (quoted Diagram 11. and Table VIII. 

 respectively), and compares these with the accident-distribution in the cotton 

 industry (quoted Diagram III.) and manufactures generally, in the States of 

 Wisconsin and Indiana (quoted Diagram I.). 



B6. U.S. Senate. — 62nd Congress, 1st Session, Doc. 110. — ' Conditions of Employ- 

 ment in the Iron and Steel Industry.' Vol. IV. gives accident and output 

 time-distribution. Quoted Tables X. and VIII. 



B7. Illinois. — Bureau of Labour Statistics Reports: Industrial Accidents, 1911, 

 1912, 1913. Quoted Table XIII. and Diagram I. 



B8. Ma.ssachusetls. — Industrial Accident Board Report (1st), 1912-13. Quoted 



Tables XL a and b, and Diagrams II. and IV. 

 B9. Minnesota.— BuTenu of Labour 12th Annual Report. Gives number of accidents 



for each hour of day and night in Lumbering, Mining, and Manufactures separately. 



Quoted Diagrams I., V., and VI. 



BIO. Ohio. — Industrial Commission Dept. of Investigation and Statistics Report: 

 No. 4, ' Industrial Accidents, 1914.' Quoted Table XIT. and Diagrams IV, 

 and V. 



