PHYSIOLOGICAL REASONS FOR SUNDAY REST.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 424, 30 November 1889, Page 8

PHYSIOLOGICAL REASONS FOR SUNDAY REST.

The question of Sunday work, lias, of r^ur.= p !\ vnaral fjcl(\ and i^ is that side •which wo-t <iiona,\v influences man}' who sire »tm "rig to lessen lite evil. Bhysiulo-uit-tsnie uuivptsalfy agreed that men need, for purely physiological reasons, one, day's rost out of the seven. There is plenty of evidence on this question, all p"inting in the same direction, and the conclusion is inevitable that the almost universal deshe of ivoikmen fnr rest on Sunday, and their strong objection to woik continuously eveiy day is U>& lesult of a natural physiological la.v, which like all other laws of the kind, cannot be violated A\ithout someone having to suffer tl.e pp"alty. There is good leason for Veiievins; th.it "ia.ny milroad accidents are directly traceable to physical and mental exhaustion, of trainmen, caused; liy the strain of seveie auA active exacting duties, performed without relaxation fora period of time beyond that which is allowed by Natuie. And in the case of Street railway employees, who are required to work fioni 12 to 16 houis every ' day, Sundays included, it is probable t,hat society suffvrs, an,d will suffer, a large share of the penalty. For th.c presence in the community of a considerable body of men to whom civilisation means almost, if not quite, nothing, upon whom stciety has imposed burdens almost intolerable and infinitely heavier than are imposed by isature as a condition of living — wr say I'll at the presence of a body of men living under such condition^ rs a menace and a dangpr to republican institutions, — Ameiioan Mac him 3 1;.