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may be reasonably expected considering their great preponderance in the number of persons employed, the factory and workshop industries of the State are responsible for practically one-half of the accidents causing major injuries and almost one-half of the total number of fatalities.

ACCIDENTS RESULTING IN MINOR INJURIES.

The three tables which follow, Nos. 4, 5 and 6, deal entirely with accidents, the injuries resulting from which were of a minor character.

TABLE No. 4.

Minor Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Causes of Accidents by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending September 30, 1915.

All Occupational Groups Included, Except Steam Railroad Transportation.

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The above table shows the total number of accidents which produced minor injuries to have been 386 during the twelve months covered by the record, and exactly the same number was reported for the next preceding twelve months. The number charged to "factories and workshops" this year is 147, against 140 in 1914; the number that occurred in the building and construction industries is 101, against 103 in 1914; the number that occurred in the mining, tunneling and trench digging occupations is 35, against 30 in 1914; in electrical occupations the number is 14, against 21 in 1914, and in the unclassified occupations the number is 89, against 92 in 1914. A comparison of this table with the foregoing summaries, Nos. 1 and 2, will show that to a large extent the accidents resulting in both grades of injuries-major and minor, were caused by the same agencies. As these were pointed out in the textual review of these tables, it seems unnecessary to particularize them again, but the fact that year after year the largest number originate in substantially the same way should indicate clearly the direction which preventative efforts might take with the best prospect of effecting im

provement.

Tables Nos. 5 and 6, which follow, show the bodily location of all minor injuries (No. 5) and a summary of all accidents— major and minor, by occupational groups (No. 6).

TABLE No. 5.

Minor Accidents. Classification According to Bodily Location of Injury.

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The above table shows that exclusive of steam railroad employes, there were 1,305 accidents resulting in major and minor injuries; 607, or 4.6 per cent. occurred in factories and workshops; 271, or 20.7 per cent. in building and construction; 106, or 8.1 per cent. in tunnels, mines and excavations; 47, or 3.6 per cent. in the electrical industries; and 274, or 21.0 per cent. in the unclassified group. Including the steam railroad employes, the list of casualities, both major and minor, foots up to a grand total of 3,795, of which number 258 terminated fatally.

TABLE No. 7.

Manufacturing Establishments Moved from New Jersey or Closed
Permanently During the Year 1914.

The table which follows gives a list of manufacturing plants formerly in operation here that were either closed permanently or moved out of the State during the year 1914. The capital invested in these establishments, cost value of such stock or material as they used, selling value of goods made or work done, and number of persons employed are shown on the table as these details were reported for 1913, the last year they were in operation here. The former location of these plants, the character of the industries in which they were engaged, and the states to which those of them that left New Jersey were transferred are also given.

The table shows the total number of these plants to have been 104; of these, 90 were closed permanently for a variety of

reasons, all reduceable to the simple proposition that they were not being operated at a profit; 14 were moved to other states6 to New York, 5 to Pennsylvania, 2 to Connecticut, and I to Virginia. The silk industry heads the list with 16 establishments closed. Next in numbers come the jewelry and hatting industries with a loss of five establishments each. The leather, embroidery, paper and sash door and blind industries lost 4 establishments each. Artisans' tools, silver goods, and brick and terra cotta, show shrinkages of 3 establishments each. Twelve industries sustained a loss of 2 establishments each, and 29 others I each.

The localities affected by these losses were: Camden, 4; Elizabeth, 2; Hoboken, 6; Jersey City, 3; Newark, 35; New Brunswick and Passaic, I each; Paterson, 17; Trenton, 2, and "other localities," 33 establishments.

The number of persons employed in these 104 establishments in 1914 was 3,386, which would average 331⁄2 wage earners for each of them, a number that indicates their having been of fairly good size. The amount disbursed in wages by them during the last full year of their activity was $1,650,037. Their aggregate capital invested was $4,037,981, or an average of nearly $39,000 each, and the aggregate value of all goods made or work done was $7,374,641, or an average of $70,910 for each of the one hundred and four establishments.

There is nothing whatever unusual about the withdrawal from business of so many manufacturing plants during the past year, as the number does not exceed the average proportion of failures as ascertained by the experience extending over many years. In fact the number that closed their doors permanently in 1914 (90), was nine less than that reported for the preceding year (99). The same may be said of the much smaller number of establishments that for one or another reason were moved out of the State to other places. Changes of that kind are constantly taking place and New Jersey is by no means a loser by the process, as the number that comes to us annually from other states is invariably greater than that which leaves us for other places. The same may be said regarding the failures; plants lost in this way are every year replaced by an even larger number of new ones, so that our total volume of industry never fails to show a steady increase from year to year.

TABLE No. 7.

Manufacturing Establishments Moved from the State or Closed
Permanently During the Year 1914.

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