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6^. 0-c :-----1 R_-. & -S'. .1 References to Recent Literature - 3 compensation will probcbly soon be accorded practically as vide recognition as accident compensation. Industry, therefore, is confronted with the problem of materially higher compensation rates than those of the poBt or present. Although present day compensation laws are not ideal from the standpoint of uil concerned, the relation between employer and injured employee is far more satisfactory than ir. the pi3t. The only feasible method open to industrialists to combat this trend appears to be a rigorous program of accident control. Differential rates fuvoring employers with low accident records exo endorsed ac is an administration of the laws to enable employees to receive practically all of the premiums paid. 10 MECHANIZED SaFETY. S. Walton-Brcvm. Tnns. Instn. Min. Engrs. (London) 95. 202-2CC (Juno 1938). The progress of machine mining during the periods 1924-29, 1930-34 and 1935-35 is 3homr. by the percentages of coal cut by machine during those periods (23,39, and 53 per cent respectively) and by the percentages convoyed during those periods (b, 26 and 45 per cent respectively). Based on tons of cool mined, there has been a reduction of accidents from 1924-29 to 1935-36, but basod on man-shifts the figuros ahjw an increase of accident rate. More coal is minod with loss men, but the accident rate is higher. 11 WORKING IN THE DaRK. rfarren A. Cook. Nat, Safety Nows 39. 24-5 (January 1939). Toxic concentrations of nearly all hazardous gases, dusts and vapors are undotectablc without the* uso of some specific method of determination, A brief out line is giver, of the latest methods in use on the determination of the various impurities of tho atmosphere which are hazardous and it is urged, in oases of doubt as to the concentration, that accurate methods be used to measure them. 12 PROCEDURE IN MAKING A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF DUST INJURY. L. Teloky. Folia med. 23, 23-4 (1937). (Italian). The investigation must always be taken up from the clinical and industrial hygier.point cf view. In dust studies it is necessary to. examine thoroughly all the employees, including x-rays whoro possible. There aro a nvmibor of methods of detecting quartz in lung tiosuo and also for the analysis of dusts for fro sili ca. Dust counts should be made with the recognized instruments. In allergic dust studies it is necossary to list the materials used and the conditions of their application. 13 AIR CONDITIONING AND INDUSTRIAL HEALTH., L.D. Bristol. J.An.Med. Assoc. HO, 2142-3 (1938). In a comparison of collected dato on diagnosed illnosses, lasting seven days or more, among 1000 women working ir. air conditioned rooms, it was found that the average Donthly incidanco was slightly higher than that in a control group work ing in pochanlsally ventilated rooms. The avorage days' duration per ease w&b al6o slightly higher in the air conditioned rooms. 14 DISABLING SICKNESS hMONO MALE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYEES DURING THE SECOND QUARTER AND THE FIRST HALF OF 1938. W.M. Gafafor and E.S. Frasier. U.S, Public Health Roports , 1910-11 (October 20, 1936). Reports from sick-benofit organizations including 168,233 cole employees showed that rates for illnossos lasting more than a week were 20% lower in the first half cf 1938 than in the samo poriod of 1957 and 13% below the samo periods of the ye.-xs 193o-7. Ncn-industrial injuries remained about tho some. All respir atory disease rate3 were far lowor except that new casos of tuberculosis showed a slight gain. KWB8-0009777