INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE

A KESEAECII BOAED. A 'Research Board has been appointed ~ by the British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Medical Research Committee jointly to consider nnd investigate the relations of hours of labour and of other conditions of employment, including methods of , work, to the production of fatigue, hav in"- regard both to industrial efficiency ;■ ;ind to the preservation of health anions the workers. The duty of the board will he to initiate, organise, and promote by research, grants, or otherwise invesnua' ■ lions in different industries with a'vievf' to fimliii" the most favourable hours o labour, spells of work, rest pauses, and ; other conditions applicable to the various" processes according to the nature of the ; work and its demands on the worker. For these investigations the board : looks forward to receiving (he help of employers and workmen in the industries which" are studied, and in nppronrmte - cases representatives of both will bo invited to serve as temporary members of the board. The board has been coil' ftiluted as follows:— Professor C. S. Sherrington, Sc.lJ.-, F.H.S. (Professor of Physiology, Uni» ' versify of Oxford), chairman. V ; E. L. Collis. Esq., M.B. (Director of VeP : fare and Health, Ministry of Munitions). •■--,,,, Sir -Walter Fletcher, K.8.E., M.D.! ; F.U.fi. (secretary, Medical Research Committee). , Vf. L. Hichcns, Esq. (chairman of : Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co., LiniEdward Hopkinson, Esq., D.Sc- (Diroclot '. ■ of Messrs. Mather and Platt. ManChester). Kenneth Lee, Esq. (director of Messrs, Tpolnl Broadhursl Leo Company, ■, Limited). ." ~ T. M. Legge, Esq., C.8.E., M.D.. (H.M. Medical Inspector of Factories). . Colonel C. S. llypvs. M.D., F.R.S. (DireC- , tor of Iho Psychological Laboratory, . Cambridge). R. R. Bannatyne, Esq. (Assessor reprc-

soiling Ilio Homo Office). I). R. Wilson, E«i. (lI.JI. Inspector of

Factories), secretary. The bniml will be slml In receive 6«Rgcslions as lo any problems of tlio kind described. All eominunicnlions should be mldrcsscd to the secretary, Industrial Fatigue Research Board. IS Great George Street, Westminster, S.W.I.