PART II. CLASSIFICATION GROUPINGS.—SUMMARY OF DIVISIONS, SCHEDULES, AND GROUPS. Division A.-Agriculture. SCHEDULE 1.-General farming. SCHEDULE 2.-Clay products. Group 28. Brick and tile, including underground mining. Group 1. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 2.-Dairy farming. Group 2. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 3.-Stock farming. Group 3. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 4.-Garden and truck farming. Group 4. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 5.-Operating agricultural machinery (not by farmer). Group 5. Cotton ginning and pressing. SCHEDULE 1.-Mining. Group 7. Coal mines, anthracite. Group 12. Other base-metal mines. Group 14. Oil and gas well operating. SCHEDULE 2.-Quarrying. Group 16. Building-stone quarries. Group 17. Quarrying and stone crushing. Group 18. Cement rock. Group 19. Sand and clay digging. Division C.-Manufacturing. SCHEDULE 1.-Stone products. Group 20. Stone crushing; no quarrying. Group 21. Stone cutting. Group 22. Stone grinding. Group 23. Carborundum. Group 29. Brick and tile; no underground mining. Group 30. Potteries. SCHEDULE 3.-Glass products. Group 31. Glass, plate or window. Group 32. Glass, not plate or window. Group 33. Mirrors, signs, and ornamental glass. Group 34. Optical goods. SCHEDULE 4.-Ore reduction and smelting. Group 36. Gold and silver smelting. Group 38. Copper smelting and refining. Group 39. Other metals smelting and refining. SCHEDULE 5.-Rolling mills and steel works. Group 40. Steel making. Group 41. Rolling and tube mills. SCHEDULE 6.- Metal products. Group 44. Foundries. Group 45. Lead. Group 46. Forging. Group 47. Architectural and ornamental ironwork. Group 48. Safes. Group 49. Sheet-metal ware. Group 50. Sheet-metal work. Group 51. Stamping. Group 52. Hardware. Group 53. Eyelets, pins, etc. Group 54. Cutlery and hand tools. Group 55. Small arms. Group 56. Stoves, heaters, etc. Group 57. Plumbing, gas, and electric fixtures. Group 58. Wire products. Group 160. Flour and grist mill products. Group 198. Structural iron erecting. Group 199. Metal construction (outside). руго Group 213. Metal construction (within buildings). Group 179. Sporting and military goods. Group 180. Buffing wheels, washers, and Group 214. Elevator erection, passenger steam packing. or freight. Group 181. Butchers' and dairy supplies. Group 215. Metal appliances; installing within buildings. Group 217. Plumbing and heating. Group 219. Marble, tile, and plaster blocks (within buildings). Group 220. Carpentry work (within | Group 252. Steam heating or power com panies. Group 253.-Garbage works and sewage disposal plants. Group 254. Pneumatic tube companies; operation. Group 255. Irrigation works. SCHEDULE 7.-Pipe lines. Division F.-Trade. SCHEDULE 1.-Offices. Group 257. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 2.-Stores. Group 258. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 3.- Yards. Group 259. (Undivided.) SCHEDULE 4.-Salesmen and agents-outside. Group 260. (Undivided.) Division G.-Service. SCHEDULE 1.--Domestic. Group 261. Care, custody, and maintenance of buildings. Group 262. Care of grounds. Group 263. Hotels, restaurants, and clubs. SCHEDULE 2.-Personal. Group 264. Theaters. Group 265. Amusements, indoor (other than theaters). Group 266. Amusements, outdoor. Group 267. Individual service. SCHEDULE 3.-Professional. Group 268. Inspectors and appraisers. SCHEDULE 6.-Public utilities (not trans- Group 269. Institutions. portation). Group 247. Electric light and power. Group 248. Telephone and telegraph. Group 249. Natural gas. Group 250. Gas works. Group 251. Waterworks. Group 270. Teachers and instructors. Group 271. Undertakers. Group 272. Motion pictures. SCHEDULE 4.- Municipal and public. Group 273. (Undivided.) PROPOSED PROHIBITION OF LEAD PAINTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.1 The enactment of a law prohibiting the importation, sale, or use of any paint material containing more than 5 per cent of its dry weight of a soluble lead compound is the principal recommendation of the British departmental committee appointed to investigate the danger of the use of paints containing lead to the health of persons engaged in painting buildings. The committee was appointed January 20, 1911, and after extensive investigations issued its report on May 5, 1915- This report, however, bears the date of November, 1914. Besides the chairman, the committee consisted of two members of Parliament, the medical inspector of factories, and two representatives each of employing painters and of working painters. The appointment of this committee was prompted by the numerous cases of lead poisoning among painters and the belief that many of them could be prevented by the same careful regulation or restriction which has proved effective in preventing lead poisoning in factories. The committee's report is based upon the evidence of 118 witnesses, of whom 93 were selected by the committee as representatives of employers, painters, paint and paint material manufacturers, consultants to paint makers, chemists, architects, physicians, and others with special knowledge of ship and bridge painting and lead poisoning. The remaining 25 witnesses were brought forward by the whitelead corroders' section of the London Chamber of Commerce, and included a certain number from France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland. The report is printed in a volume of 134 pages, summarizing and analyzing the evidence and presenting the recommendations of the committee. A second volume giving the testimony of the witnesses in full is yet to be issued. The committee recognized that in connection with such a restriction as it recommends it would be necessary to exempt specifically certain classes of colors, such as those used by artists, and that it would be desirable to authorize the granting of exemptions applicable only to special branches of the painting industry, where it could be shown to the satisfaction of the home secretary that the use of lead paints containing more than 5 per cent of soluble lead can not as yet be dispensed with. In such cases it is considered desirable that the home secretary be given power to enforce adequate preventive measures, namely, abolition of dry rubbing down, provision for overalls, lunch rooms, cloak rooms, elevators, medical examinations, and the like, all of which should be made compulsory and should be enforced by adequate inspection. The supplying of lead materials 1 Great Britain. Home Department. Report of the departmental committee appointed to investigate the danger attendant on the use of paints containing lead in the painting of buildings, November, 1914, 134 pp. (Cd. 7882). |