The Health of the Industrial Worker

Abstract

MANY books have been written on the diseases of occupations, but this is the first adequate modern treatise upon the hygiene of industry in general. A more ideal combina tion of authors for the purpose it would be diffi cult to find. Prof. Collis, professor of preventive medicine in the Welsh National School of Medi cine, was formerly one of H.M. Inspectors of Factories; during the war he served as Director of Welfare and Health in the Ministry of Muni tions and was an active member of the Health of Munition Workers Committee. Dr. Greenwood, who is reader in medical statistics in the Uni versity of London, was in charge of the Medical Research Branch of the Ministry of Munitions during the war. By his refinements and judi cious application of statistical methods he has done more than anyone else in this country to dis courage the issue of statistically worthless medi cal and physiological data. Both authors are members of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board, and they have made full use in their book of the valuable reports published by the Board. The Health of the Industrial Worker. By Prof. E. L. Collis Dr. Major Greenwood. Containing a chapter on Reclamation of the Disabled, by Dr. A. J. Collis. With an Introuction by Sir George Newman. Pp. xix + 450. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1921.) 30s. net.