. Preventive medicine and hygiene. gineers find that it pays to give employees arest at stated intervals and to guard the conditions surrounding workers,so that they are neither molested nor interrupted, that the light andother factors are agreeable, and the sanitary surroundings good. Workand rest must be judiciously alternated. Efficiency ceases when fatiguebegins. The danger to the workman himself, as well as to others, is nowrecognized from a tired brain, tired nerves, and tired muscles. Acci-dents are especially prone to happen to workmen who are tired. Thus FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS IN
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. gineers find that it pays to give employees arest at stated intervals and to guard the conditions surrounding workers,so that they are neither molested nor interrupted, that the light andother factors are agreeable, and the sanitary surroundings good. Workand rest must be judiciously alternated. Efficiency ceases when fatiguebegins. The danger to the workman himself, as well as to others, is nowrecognized from a tired brain, tired nerves, and tired muscles. Acci-dents are especially prone to happen to workmen who are tired. Thus FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PREVENTION 1041 most accidents in factories happen as the day wears on. The effect offatigue on the occurrence of accidents is graphically shown by Frencliand Belgian statistics. The number of accidents increases progressivelyduring the morning hours, drops after the noon intermission, and thenrises from hour to hour until the end of the working day, affordinga practical illustration of Helmholtzs experiments in attention Fig. 145.—An Effective Dust-bemoving System in the Boot-and-Shoe trimming. (Mass. State Board of Health.) Fatigue is not only dangerous to the workman himself, but sometimesto others; thus the overwrought and tired-out train dispatcher maysend trains into collision. Further, fatigue of certain nerves andmuscles may result in definite symptoms such as writers cramp, ormore general manifestations such as nervous prostration. Type-Writers, telegraph operators, and others suffer from these occupationalneuroses. Next to fatigue, nervous tension and worry are very wearing, andwhen combined become especially harmful. Diabetes prevails amongengine drivers to a considerable extent. AYorry, hurry, and a highnervous tension are recognized as a frequently predisposing cause of ill 1042 HYGIENE AND DISEASES OF OCCUPATION health or breakdown in all walks of life, including the so-called higherprofessions. Minors.—The first factory act in this cou
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