Author: Edgar L. Collis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9781330382462

Excerpt from The Health of the Industrial Worker Many and valuable books exist which describe diseases peculiar to certain occupations and the means by which these diseases may be prevented or relieved; the literature of the general hygiene of industry is less satisfying. No book is known to us which deals at all adequately from the standpoint of hygiene with the profound changes in the lives of civilised people during the past century and a half consequent upon the rise and development of modern industry. Vast and varied erudition is needed to rise to the height of so great an argument, vaster and more varied than is at our command; we do not suggest that the present volume fills the gap which exists. Nevertheless, each of us has had to deal with problems of industrial hygiene from his particular point of view and has used methods of investigation which his particular way of life or habit of mind rendered accessible. We hope, there-, fore, we may not be too presumptuous in thinking that our joint work may suggest to others lines of fruitful inquiry and perhaps be of value to the novice. We believe that at least we have made plain how great is the influence of employment upon general health; how many are the opportunities presented in industry for studying conditions which lead up to divergencies from health, divergencies which when neglected pass into diseases; how ready to hand are means for improving the workaday life of the productive classes; and how important to the whole of preventive medicine are lessons learnt in the school of industrial hygiene. Valuable information has been published in recent years in Government publications and scientific papers which for the most part are not readily accessible to those for whom this book has been prepared; the extent to which these sources of information have been freely laid under contribution is indicated in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.