Industrial and personal hygienePresident's Homes Commission, 1908 - 168 pages |
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... labor . It will be readily conceded that health is the chief asset of the workingman , and that no greater calamity can befall him than when his earning capacity is impaired , or arrested , by reason of sickness or disability . It means ...
... labor . It will be readily conceded that health is the chief asset of the workingman , and that no greater calamity can befall him than when his earning capacity is impaired , or arrested , by reason of sickness or disability . It means ...
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... labor law in 1841 and in 1874 a more satisfactory labor code . Germany and other continental governments enacted suitable legislation between 1859 and 1886 . According to Miss S. S. Whittelsey's " Essay on Massachusetts Labor ...
... labor law in 1841 and in 1874 a more satisfactory labor code . Germany and other continental governments enacted suitable legislation between 1859 and 1886 . According to Miss S. S. Whittelsey's " Essay on Massachusetts Labor ...
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... Labor Statistics of New York , based on the records of the International Typographical Union and the London ( England ) Society of Compositors , shows clearly the very high death rate from tuberculosis among printers . The following ...
... Labor Statistics of New York , based on the records of the International Typographical Union and the London ( England ) Society of Compositors , shows clearly the very high death rate from tuberculosis among printers . The following ...
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... Labor Statistics , 1906. ] Death rate per 1,000 . Pneumonia . Diseases of nervous system . Diseases of genito - urinary system . Diseases of the heart . New York City .. 3.82 2.42 1.91 1.63 1.37 0.99 0.89 16.32 Other New York State 2.54 ...
... Labor Statistics , 1906. ] Death rate per 1,000 . Pneumonia . Diseases of nervous system . Diseases of genito - urinary system . Diseases of the heart . New York City .. 3.82 2.42 1.91 1.63 1.37 0.99 0.89 16.32 Other New York State 2.54 ...
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... labor , thus enabling them to have homes as healthful as may be procured by the best paid workmen in any community . Neither can it be said that compositors are ill nourished and therefore rendered more susceptible to the insidious ...
... labor , thus enabling them to have homes as healthful as may be procured by the best paid workmen in any community . Neither can it be said that compositors are ill nourished and therefore rendered more susceptible to the insidious ...
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Page 135 - The sum allotted as compensation to a dependant may be invested or otherwise applied for the benefit of the person entitled thereto, as agreed, or as ordered by the committee or other arbitrator.
Page 135 - ... in the case of partial incapacity the weekly payment shall in no case exceed the difference between the amount of the average weekly earnings of the workman before the accident and the average weekly amount...
Page 165 - During the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise...
Page 135 - Where a workman has given notice of an accident, he shall, if so required by the employer, submit himself for examination by a duly qualified medical practitioner provided and paid by the employer, and, if he refuses to submit himself to such examination, or in any way obstructs the same, his right to compensation, and to take or prosecute any proceeding under this Act in relation to compensation, shall be suspended until such examination has taken place.
Page 158 - I hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by that act, make the following regulations, and direct that they shall apply to all factories or parts thereof in which the process of spinning by means of self-acting mules is carried on : 1. In these regulations the term "minder...
Page 135 - Any weekly payment may be reviewed at the request either of the employer or of the workman, and on such review may be ended, diminished, or increased, subject to the maximum above provided; and the amount of payment shall, in default of agreement, be settled by arbitration under this act.
Page 75 - ... and to carry away the dust arising from or thrown off by such wheels or belts while in operation directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such...
Page 150 - Act, unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means, by publishing and to the best of his power enforcing the said rules as regulations for the working of the mine, to prevent such contravention or non-compliance.
Page 124 - House, resolve that such order ought to be annulled, the same shall after the date of such resolution be of no effect, without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the meantime under such order or to the making of any new order...
Page 161 - Unless the cargo is stowed sufficiently far from the ladder to leave at each rung of the ladder sufficient room for a man's feet.