WONDER HOW WORKERS SURVIVE

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 11

WONDER HOW WORKERS SURVIVE

MODERN WORKSHOP NO “ BED OF ROSES " Dr F. T. Cotton, of the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, lecturing in London, said that, though the death rate in London from heart disease was higher than that of any other large city in the world, the rate for the disease was not so high in Great Britain as it was in the United States and Germany. Paris had the lowest rate of any large city. Five-sixths of the total number cf deaths from heart failure occurred after the age of forty. Heart disease more than any other malady severely affected the life of the industrial worker. More than one-half of the people who broke down before the age of forty under strain of physical effort had heart disease. ’ . Sir Robert Hadfield, who presided, said the modern workshop was anything but a bed of roses owing to the heavy “ drive ” called into being by modern requirements and international competition. It was said that hard work never killed anyone; nevertheless, it was a great strain. “The wonder to me,” Sir Robert added, “is how the worker survives vim constant calls and stress made upon him.”