Dearden, Dr, Manchester, 425.
_Decennial Supplements to Reports of Registrar-General_, 118–28,
150, 389, 525, 530, 717, 719.
Decorators, lead insanity in, 308.
Decrees for sanitary regulation of factories in France and Belgium,
55, 56.
Deepcar, near Sheffield, ganister works at, 784.
Deer and anthrax, 624.
Delpech and Hillairet, _Memoire ... des chromates_, 448, 452.
Denmark, inspectorate in, 49;
ventilation of factories in, 51;
employment of women after childbirth, 54;
use of white phosphorus interdicted in, 421.
Derby, Lord, 191.
Derbyshire mines, 158–60;
pig-lead in, 283.
Dermatoconiosis, skin disease caused by dust, 268;
flax-workers subject to, 269, 699.
Desilvering of lead, 287.
Destructors, dust, 279.
Detonators, 602, 603, 605, 606.
_Deutsche Milit. Zeitschrift_, 751.
_Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie_, 812.
Devon, tin mines, 162;
clay, 347.
Dhobie itch, a complaint among soldiers in India, 176.
Diabetes, in drapers, 154;
miners, 158;
engine drivers, 796;
publicans, etc., 802.
Diamond Match Co., Liverpool, 429.
Diarrhœa, seamen subject to, 185.
_Dictionary of Explosives_, 599.
Digestive diseases, in glass-makers, 139, 595;
iron and steel workers, 141;
lead-workers, 143, 595;
quarriers, 144, 563;
brass-workers, 145;
wool-workers, 148;
printers, musicians, 151;
tailors, 154;
ironstone miners, 161;
typographers, 275;
brewers, 595;
cutlers, file-cutters, carpenters, chemical workers, earthenware
makers, 595;
occupied and unoccupied men, 720;
engine drivers, 796.
Dijon Academy, 293.
Dilke, Sir C. W., 14.
Dinas rock, 396.
Dingle, Dr, Medical Officer of Health, Middlesborough, 394.
Dinitrobenzine, its effects on makers of high explosives, 475–90.
Dinitrobenzol, 615, 619;
manufacture of, 765–67;
its effect on the eyes, 766.
Dinitronaphthalene, 619.
Dinitrotoluene, 476.
Dioxide, sulphur, 580, 581.
Diphtheria, caused by cows’ milk and cats, 247.
Dippers (pottery), 383;
(brass), 465;
(dinitrobenzol manufacture), 765.
Disease, dust as a cause of occupation, 267–77.
Disease, industrial, various definitions of, 14, 15;
good effects of notification of, 22.
Diseases of Animals Act, 624.
Distoma hepaticum, or liver fluke, in shepherds, 249.
Districts, industrial, agricultural, mining, 120.
Divers’ paralysis, 746;
its treatment, 748.
Dock labourers, death rate from accidents, 530;
anthrax in, 628.
Doffer knife, for flax, 694.
Doffers, mill fever and skin eruptions in, 699.
Domestic servants, subject to ulceration of stomach, 798.
Dominion Carbide Works (Ottawa), 501.
Don, Valley of the, centre of the ganister-crushing industry, 396.
Donaldson, 97.
Dorset clay, 347.
Douchy mine (France), 730.
Dowling, _Influence of Tobacco on Vision; some Investigations made
in Tobacco Manufactories of Cincinnati_, 769.
Downcast shaft (mines), 540.
Drapers, death rate, 154.
Draw- or scroll-bands, 225.
Drawers, in cotton spinning, 703.
Dreschfeld, Dr, 481.
Dressing in iron and steel works, 779.
Drivers of public vehicles, subject to alcoholism, gout,
rheumatism, etc., 798.
Driving belts, for mill-gearing, 211.
Drovers, anthrax in, 244.
Dry bronzing, 268.
Dry grinders, mortality of, 409, 415, 416.
Drysalting hides and skins, Special Rules for, 856.
Dubini, of Milan, 743.
Dublin, shock from electric lamp at, 257.
Dudfield, Dr, 280.
Dudley, hollow ware manufacture at, 319;
chain making at, 759.
Dundee, chief jute manufacture seat, 651–62.
Dupré, Dr, 613, 716, 767.
Dupuytren’s contraction, in field-workers, 233;
gardeners, 237;
quarriers, 564.
Durham, coal mines in, 158–60;
lead mines, 283, 284.
Durham County Hospital, 808.
Dust as a cause of occupation diseases, 267–77.
Dust destructors, 279.
Dust-producing occupations, 134–65;
their relative mortality, 135.
Dust women, 278–81.
Dye works, poisoning in, 315–17;
and eye troubles, 770;
Special Rules for, 850.
Dyeing, 447.
Dynamite, 556, 559, 600, 614, 620;
gelatine, 559, 599, 600, 620.
Dynamos, 251.
Dysentery, among soldiers, 174, 177;
sailors, 183, 185.
E.C. powder, 619.
Ear affections, in quarrymen, 563.
Earle, Sir James, edition of Percivall Pott’s _Works_, 237.
Earthenware manufacture, 35, 36, 43;
death rate in, 135, 594, 595;
and plumbism, 360;
Special Rules for, 834–41.
East London, anthrax cases in, 627.
_Economic Journal_, 278, 795.
Eczema, 270.
Edge runner mills, 390, 391.
_Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal_, 434, 482.
Edwards, James H., ship-repairer, South Shields, 495.
Egypt, 171.
Egyptian flax, 699.
Egyptians, anthrax the “grievous murrain” of the, 622;
as glass makers, 804.
Ehrenfield, glass-makers at, 806.
Eissler, Professor, 599.
Electric accumulator works and lead poisoning, 320;
Special Rules for, 863.
Electric, baths, 375–77;
currents, 251;
generating works, 250–66;
generators, 208;
incandescent lamp manufacture, 439;
light, its effect on eyes, 773–75;
tramways, 323;
welding, its effect on eyes, 774.
Electric shock, deaths from, 253–60;
suggestions for treating apparent death from, 263.
Electrical furnaces, 497;
meters, 440.
_Electrical Review_, 258, 263.
Electrical treatment in plumbism, 315, 373–77.
Electrolysis of salt, 583.
Electronite, for blasting, 619.
Electroplating, 440.
Elterwater, Westmoreland, gunpowder explosion at, 608.
Elvatka guard, 227.
Emery rock, imported from Smyrna and Naxos, 813.
Emery wheel, or cutler’s glazer, 412, 773, 813.
Emphysema, in seamen, 183;
porcelain- and cement-makers, masons, 274;
millers, bakers, 505;
blanket-stovers, 649;
jute-workers, 660.
Employers’ Associations (France), 55.
Employers’ Liability Act (1880), 9, 20, 565.
Employment of Boys in the Sweeping of Chimneys in England Acts,
812.
Enamelling, of iron plates, 317;
of hollow ware, 319;
Special Rules for, 833, 848, 863.
Encephalopathy, cerebral type of plumbism, 288, 307, 326, 366, 369.
_Encyclopédie d’Hygiène_, 325.
Engine drivers, their diseases, 796, 797.
Engine-makers, death rate, 755.
Engines, steam-, gas-, and oil-, 206.
England, the pioneer of factory legislation, 3;
causes of decline of chemical and metallurgical industries in, 5;
lagging behind in factory legislation, 45;
decay of lead mining in, 283;
white lead made by _old Dutch_ process in, 288.
_English Sanitary Science_, 76.
Enteric fever, 174;
among soldiers, 177–79;
sailors, with table of mortality, 187, 188;
among field-workers, 234;
boilermakers and shipwrights, 754.
Enteroconiosis, gastro-intestinal lesion caused by dust, 268, 273.
Epernon, Seine Valley, buhrstone imported from, 405.
Equalised Druids Society, 776.
Ergograph, instrument for estimating muscular work, 105.
Ergotism, disease caused by spurred rye, 234.
Erith, gunpowder explosion at, 607, 608.
Erysipelas, in butchers, slaughterers, tanners, 245;
upholsterers, 789.
Erysipelatous anthrax, 636.
Ethane, fire-damp in mines, 546.
Eulenberg, Dr, 324, 794.
Europe, use of phosphorus in, 421.
Expert-Besançon et Cie., Paris, their process for treating white
lead, 290, 294.
Explosions in collieries, 548.
Explosives, comparative safety of manufacture of, 17;
high, 475–90;
nitro-glycerine, 536;
gases from, 555;
in quarries, 559;
and explosions, 599–620;
Special Rules for manufacture of, 842.
Explosives Act, 565.
Eye diseases, caused by dinitrobenzine, 482;
in quarries, 564;
glass-makers, 806;
accidents, in industrial occupations, 776–87.
Faber, Dr, 325.
Factories, and the Workmen’s Compensation Act (1897), 12, 13;
survey of legislation for, 44–62;
ventilation and lighting in, 51;
prevention of accidents in, 54;
employment of mothers in, 73 _et seq._;
machinery in, 205.
Factory and Workshop Acts (1802 and 1833), 31;
(1844), 31, 41;
(1864 and 1867), 35, 36;
(1871), 35;
(1878), 35, 36, 64, 214, 220, 464, 564;
(1883), 39;
(1889), 40, 41;
(1891), 4, 40, 41, 58, 99, 199, 205, 214, 220, 461, 465, 564,
827;
(1895), 41, 71, 99, 101, 203, 626;
(1901), 4, 199, 205, 213, 218, 697, 829.
Factory Acts, 28;
first extended to women, 32;
and the British Constitution, 63;
Special Rules under, 829–64.
Factory Bill of 1901, 47, 71.
Factory Commission (1875), 36, 80.
Factory Inspectorate, organised by Act of 1884, 31;
in various countries, 47–49.
Factory labour and infant mortality, 73–89.
Factory legislation, England the pioneer of, 3;
improves trade and conditions of labour, 5;
and effects of particular trades on health, 22;
Acts of 1802 and 1833, the landmarks of, 31;
its progress, 34;
laundries included in, 42;
England lagging behind in, 45;
Royal Commission (1876) on, 47;
home-work not controlled by, 99.
Fans for removal of dust, in steel-grinding, 411, 413, 777;
in lucifer match works, 420;
in hatters furriers’ processes, 446.
Faradic current, 481.
Farcy, in man, 240.
Farmers, mortality table, 128, 135, 244.
Farr, Dr, 118, 127, 136.
Farriers, anthrax in, 244.
Fascia, contraction of the palmar, 233, 237, 564.
Fatigue, its causes, 106;
and alcohol, 43.
Faversham, gunpowder explosion at Hall’s Factory, 608.
Fawcus, H. B., Royal Army Medical Corps, 733.
Feathers, induce ophthalmia and lung disease, 790.
Federal Council, Germany, 46, 48, 58, 61.
Federated Trades Council, 345.
Fell-mongers, anthrax in, 244.
Fell-workers, anthrax in, 244;
dust, 276.
Felspar, 347, 348.
Fencing, of machinery, 203–31;
of quarries, 565.
Fenton potteries, 346.
Fergusson, Sir James, 81.
Fettling, in iron and steel works, 779.
Fibrosis of lung, 272;
in potters, 387;
in ganister crushers, 396.
Field work, and maternity, 81.
Fieldworkers, their bodily ills, 405.
“Fiery” coal seams, 547.
Fierté-sous-Jouarre, buhrstone imported from, 405.
File-cutters, death rate, 135, 138, 594, 595;
dust diseases of, 275;
lead insanity, 308;
plumbism, 341, 770;
machinery _v._ hand, 341.
Fillers, in dinitrobenzol works, 765.
Filters, 175.
Finisher card (jute works), 653.
Finishers of silver, subject to eye affections, 771.
Fireclay, 399;
principal constituents of, 400.
Fire-damp in mines, 546–48.
Firemen, _see_ engine drivers.
Fire-stink, 554.
Fireworks, manufacture of, 602, 603, 605.
Firing ware, risks incurred in, 383.
Fish-curing, 673–78.
Fitters (iron works), 755.
Flax, 25, and linen, 691–701;
process of manufacture, 693;
bleaching, 695.
Flax-workers, skin diseases of, 269, 276;
liable to phthisis, ophthalmia, asthma, etc., 696, 698;
Special Rules for, 848.
Flint quarries, 558.
Flock fever, 466.
Flour mills, 505–7.
Fluke, liver (distoma hepaticum), in shepherds, 249.
Fly-wheels, engine, 207.
Folliculitis, in doffers, 699.
Fontaine, M., 57.
Foot-and-mouth disease, transmitted to man, 247.
Ford, Colonel, Chief Inspector of Explosives, 613.
Forecastles, in mercantile marine, 182, 186.
Forgemen, their health, 757.
Forks, strap-, 217.
Forth Bridge, 731, 732.
Fosbroke, G. H., Medical Officer of Worcestershire, 234.
Foster, Dr C. Le Neve, _Ore and Stone Mining_, 538, 554.
Foulkes, Mr, 80.
Fournier, of Dijon, 622.
Fournière, M., 113.
Fox, Francis, _The Great Alpine Tunnels_, 737.
Foxdale lead mines (Isle of Man), 545.
France, match industry in, 20, 421;
manufacture of white lead, 36;
factory inspectorate, 47, 48;
ventilation of factories, 51;
lead poisoning in potteries, 57, 58;
ergotism in, 234;
pellagra and lathyrism in, 235;
lead mining, 284;
zinc white _v._ white lead, 293;
_colique sèche_ in navy, 335;
pottery glaze used in, 359;
fireclay mining, 399;
phosphorus necrosis in, 428;
ceased to use yellow phosphorus, 429;
a _sans phosphore_ match, 431;
mining accidents, 512, 520;
alkali works, 598;
mine explosions, 615;
chimney sweeping in, 811.
Frankl-Hochwart, Professor, 822.
Freestone quarries, 558.
Fredreich’s _Blätter für gerichtliche Medicin_, 486.
Fritted lead, 349, 354, 356, 358, 363–65, 383;
standard solubility of, 357, 364.
Fromm, Dr, 325.
Fruit-preserving, 678.
Fulminate of mercury, 559, 602, 603, 620.
Fulton, Dr, 819.
Fung Shui, 174.
Fur-brushing dust, 276.
Furnacemen, blast and puddling, their diseases, 756.
Furriers, 244;
diseases of nails in, 270.
Fur-pullers, maladies of, 724, 725.
Furness, Inveraray, gunpowder explosion at, 608.
Fürth, mirror-silvering at, 435, 437, 441.
Fuses, 602.
Galena (sulphide of lead), 286, 347, 348, 360, 361, 538, 784.
Galezowski, _Des Amblyopias, etc._, 768, 770.
Galicia, match works in, 422.
Galloway, Professor W., 526.
Galvano-caustic method of glazing ware, 807.
Ganister (calliard) crushing and mining, risks of, 396–404;
condition of miner’s lung, 401, 404.
Gardeners, death rate, 129;
and Dupuytren’s contraction, 237;
subject to cancer, 237, 810.
Garman, Dr, Bryant & May’s Medical Officer, 425–27.
Gartsherrie (Scotland), fireclay mines at, 400.
Gas engines, 206;
safety starting-gear for, 208.
Gases from explosives, 555.
Gasfitters, lead insanity in, 308;
“gassing” symptoms, 333;
death rate, 755.
Gasmeter-makers, lead insanity in, 308.
Gastro-intestinal lesion (enteroconiosis), caused by dust, 273.
Gatebeck, Kendal, gunpowder explosion at, 608.
Gautier, Dr Armand, 311;
on house-painters’ plumbism in Paris, 333.
Gelatine, blasting, 555, 559, 614, 619;
dynamite, 559, 599, 600, 620.
Gelignite, 555, 559, 620.
Generating stations, electric, 250.
_Génie Civil._, 745.
Germany, factory legislation and inspectorate in, 46, 47, 51;
powers of health authorities, 51;
employment of women after childbirth, 54, 88;
prevention of accidents in factories, 54;
Special Rules for dangerous trades, 59;
Trade Accident Associations, 55;
letterpress printing works in, 61;
ergotism in, 234;
Imperial Health Office, 320, 325;
inquiry into labour conditions in electric accumulator works,
320;
fireclay mining in, 399;
lucifer match industry, 422;
bichromate factories, 448, 449, 453;
mining accidents, 511–18;
metal- safer than coal-mining in, 519;
manufacture of coal-tar products, 590;
alkali works, 598;
mine explosives in, 616;
anthrax, 625, 632;
chimney sweeps in, 811.
Geroult, M., 339.
Gibb, Mr, General Manager N. E. Railway, 200.
Gillinder, Mr, 328.
Glamorgan, tinplate works in, 681.
Glanders, in man, 238;
in animals, 239.
Glasgow, chemical industry meeting at, 5;
file-cutting in, 340;
fireclay worked near, 399;
anthrax outbreak in, 625.
Glassblowers, and cataract, 773;
“glass-blowers’ mouth,” 805.
Glassmakers, 36;
death rate, 135, 139, 594, 595;
their risks, 804–807;
and cataract, 806.
Glass-polishers, and plumbism, 339.
Glass ware, new method of making hollow, 807.
Glazed ware, poisonous, 807.
Glazes, for pottery, 353–63, 368.
Glazing, of cutlery, 412.
Glibert, Dr, Medical Inspector, Labour Office, Belgium, 269, 270,
698;
his definition of industrial disease, 15.
Glost placers (pottery), 384.
Goatskins, and anthrax, 628.
Goat’s wool, or hair (mohair), 634.
Gob-stink, 554.
Godfernaux, Raymond, 745.
Godfrey’s cordial, 79.
Goelet, Dr, 258, 263.
Gold and silver extraction, 440.
Gouda, Holland, galena used for glazing at, 360.
Gould, Edward, Factory Inspector, 392, 789.
Gout, in tailors, 154;
gardeners, 237;
butchers, 246;
occupied males, brewers, file-cutters, carpenters, earthenware-
and glass-makers, 595;
drivers of public vehicles, 798;
publicans, etc., 802.
Gowers, _Diseases of the Nervous System_, 815, 817.
Graham, Sir James, 191.
Grainers, lead insanity in, 308.
Grammont, Belgium, match factory at, 424.
Grand Committee on Trade (1902), 43.
Granger, Dr, 234.
Granite, dust, 274;
quarries, 559.
Graphite quarries, 558.
Gravel quarries, 558.
Graveri, Dr G., of Villanova-Sollaro, 431.
Gravesend (floating magazine), detonators explosion at, 608;
fireworks explosion at, 609.
Grease, or horsepox, 245, 246.
Great Britain, mining accidents in, 523.
Greek lead ore, 283.
Greenhow, Dr Headlam, 29, 77–79, 83, 137, 144, 382, 457–60.
Greenock, gunpowder explosion in the barque “Auchmountain” off,
609.
Grinders of cutlery and other steel implements, 408;
mortality of, 409, 414–16;
subject to phthisis, asthma, “rot,” 409, 410, 414;
eye accidents to, 777.
Grinding-stones, 411, 412, 416, 784;
wheels, 412–15.
Grindley, W. H., 363, 365.
Grooms, subject to glanders, 238;
popliteal aneurism, 245.
Grotto del Cane, carbonic acid in, 546.
Guard, for engine fly-wheels, 207;
shuttle, 226;
Elvatka, 227;
Longmore’s, 228;
Victor, 228;
Woodhouse and Mitchell’s, 229;
Campbell and Greenwood’s, _ibid._;
against eye accidents in factories, 785.
Guards, goods (railways), 195.
Gubler, 423.
Guerrini, Dr Guido, 110.
Guggenbauer, 276.
Guinard, Dr, 806.
_Gulstonian Lectures_, 304.
Gun-cotton (cellulose hexa-nitrate), 555, 599, 600, 604, 610, 611,
619.
Gunpowder, 555, 559, 599, 600, 602, 603, 605, 606, 610, 611.
Gunsmiths, death rate, 135, 145.
Guttmann, Professor, 599.
Guy, Dr, 130.
Guy and Ferrier, _Forensic Medicine_, 460.
Gypsum quarries, 558.
Hacklemakers, jute works, 652.
Hæmoglobin, 550–552.
Hæmoglobinæmia, 484.
Hafting of knives, 412.
Hairdressers, death rate, 152.
Hair workers, and anthrax, 244.
Haldane, Dr John, 484, 544;
_Causes of Death in Colliery Explosions and Fires_, 548.
Half-timers, decadence of the system, 7, 93;
arrested mental development of, 95.
Halifax, carpet making at, 635.
Halkyn, Flintshire, gun-cotton explosion at, 611.
Hall, Dr Arthur, 409.
Hall, H., 526.
Hall, Dr J. C., Sheffield, 343, 411, 415.
Halstead’s “Patent Unbreakable Square-hole Solid-ended Grub Screw,”
215.
Hamilton, Dr, Certifying Surgeon for Cookstown, 698.
Hammermen’s paralysis, 757;
spasm, 821.
Hamstead Colliery, Staff., 545.
_Handbook of Service Explosives_, 599.
Hanley potteries, 346.
Hanover, chimney sweeps in, 811.
Hargreave’s “Mule Carriage Wheel Guard,” 225.
Harris’s patent, 336.
Hart, Ernest, 79.
Harting, Dr, 538.
Hartlepool, horse killed by electric shock at, 256.
Harvey’s sporting powder, 611.
Hasenclever apparatus, for bleach, 579.
Hatters, death rate, 152.
Hatters furriers’ processes, mercurial poisoning in, 441;
remedial measures, 446.
Head, Sir George, _Home Tour_, 644.
Heart disease, in potters, earthenware and china makers, 136;
cutlers, 138;
gunsmiths, 145;
sweeps, 146, 808;
tailors, 154;
drapers, shoemakers, 155;
occupied and unoccupied men, 164, 720;
soldiers, 169, 170;
sailors, 183, 184;
field workers, 232, 234, 720;
cotton operatives, 720;
puddling furnacemen, 756;
blacksmiths and forgemen, 757;
brewers, 801.
Heat apoplexy, 171, 175, 180;
the “fireman’s frenzy” of stokers, 183, 184.
Heathcote, Dr, 448.
Hecklers, flax, 693;
phthisis and bronchial troubles in, 696–98;
alcoholism, 697.
Heckling machines, 693.
Hedgers, eye accidents to, 783.
Hedley, Dr, Inspector of Mines, 11, 258.
Heidelberg, epidemic of idiopathic tetany in, 822.
Heinzerling, Ch., _Gefahren und Krankheiten in der chemischen
Industrie_, 444.
Heise, Dr, 449, 550.
Hemianæsthesia, 481.
Helmholtz, German physiologist, 106.
Hemp dust, 276.
Hernia, 19;
sailors, 183, 184;
field workers, 236;
butchers, etc., 245;
carpenters, 791.
Herodsfoot, Liskeard, gunpowder explosion at, 608.
Herrings, Scotch-cured, 674.
Hersent, French engineer at Bordeaux, 734.
Hesse, Dr, 538.
Hides and skins, anthrax and, 621–33;
dry-salting, Special Rules for, 856.
Hiene, J. W., _Effects of Copper on the Human Body_, 538.
High explosives, manufacture of, 475–90.
Hillairet, Dr, 448, 452.
Himalayas, the, 749.
Hindle _v._ Birtwistle, 214.
Hindoos, the, 179.
Hirt, Dr, 274, 276, 505.
_Historie de l’Académie royale des Sciences_, Paris, 434.
Hodge, Prof., 109.
Hodges, Prof., Queen’s Coll., Belfast, 692.
Hoe’s stereotyping machine, 331.
Hoffman, F. L., _The Mineral Industry_, 521.
Hogben, Dr, Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, 144, 458–60.
Hoists, 218–22.
Holder, or clamp (flax machine), 693.
Holland, inspectorate in, 47;
employment of women after childbirth in, 54;
use of white phosphorus limited in, 60;
manufacture of phosphorus matches prohibited in, 421.
Holland, Andrew, Board of Trade, Ottawa, 501.
Hollow ware, tinning and enamelling of, 319;
new method of making glass, 807;
Special Rules for, 848, 863.
Home-work, 98–103;
not controlled by factory legislation, 99;
its effect upon wages, 103.
Hong Kong, the Happy Valley in, 170.
Hop-pickers, subject to ophthalmia, 783.
Hope, Dr, Liverpool, 85.
Hopwood, F. J. S., Assist. Sec. Rly. Dept., Board of Trade, 198.
Horgen, Switzerland, death from electricity at, 253.
Horn-workers, liable to anthrax, 244.
Horsehair, and anthrax, 621–33.
Horsekeepers, subject to influenza, 244;
to horsepox or “grease,” 245.
Horsepox or “grease,” 245, 246.
Horses, 238–45;
and anthrax, 624.
Hounslow, gunpowder explosion at, 609.
House painters, and white lead, 292, 293;
and plumbism, 333–36.
Huber and Röhl, _Ueber acute u. chron. Intoxdurch Nitrokorp d.
Benzolreihe_, 484.
Huddersfield, lyddite explosion at, 609, 612;
woollen cloth industry at, 634.
Hughes, his use of caissons at Rochester Bridge, 731.
Huguenots, linen industry revived in North of Ireland by, 691.
Hundt, Bergassessor, _Die Bekampfung der Wurmkrankheit im
Oberbergamtsbezirke Dortmund_, 537.
Hunter, Dr, 81.
Hunter, Dr James, Edinburgh, 731.
Huntington and M’Millan, _Metals_, 287.
Huntley, Mr, Engineer, Redheugh Bridge, Newcastle, 728, 733.
Huskisson, 190.
Hyatt, discoverer of celluloid, 792.
Hydatid cyst, in shepherds, 248.
Hydrochloric acid, 570, 571.
Hydro-extractor, for removing excess of spirit in benzine, 491;
adapted to laundry work, 665.
Hydrogen sulphide, 611.
Hydrogen, sulphuretted, 555, 582.
Hydrophobia, 242–44.
Hygiene, industrial, how to promote, 22, 23.
Hygiene Committee, France, 294.
Hygiene Congress at Turin, 288.
Hygiene Council of Paris, 311.
Hygrometer, in cotton spinning works, 709.
Hyperæsthesia, a feature in chronic poisoning by dinitrobenzine,
480.
Idiopathic tetany, or shoemakers’ spasm, 822.
Idria (Illyria), cinnabar mines at, 438, 538.
Imperial Health Office, Germany, 320, 325.
Incandescent electric lamps, manufacture of, 439.
India, 171, 175;
lathyrism in, 235;
its export of jute, 651;
jute mills in, 662.
Indiarubber works, 471;
vulcanisation process in, 471;
bisulphide of carbon, 768.
Industrial Code, 46, 50.
Industrial Councils existing on Continent--suggested formation in
England of, 23.
Industrial disease, various definitions of, 14, 15;
notification of, 22.
Industrial districts, 120.
Industrial hygiene, how to promote, 22, 23.
Industrial injury, scientific protection of works against, 28.
Industrial methods, more scientifically studied on Continent, 6.
Industrial Occupation, a process of evolution, 1, 21.
Industrial Revolution, an epoch in the world’s history, 2.
Industries, classification of, 123.
Infant mortality and factory labour, 73–89;
in Dundee, 662.
Inflammable or spirit paints, use of, 494–96.
Influenza, in tailors and drapers, 154;
ironstone miners, 161;
occupied and unoccupied men, 164;
horses, 244.
Injurious industries, historical sketch of legislation for, 24–43;
scientific protection of workers, 28;
their regulation in chief countries of Europe, 44–62;
principles of prospective legislation for, 63–72;
Special Rules for, 59, 827–64.
Innkeepers, mortality of, 801.
Insanity, in lead-workers, 308, 309.
Inspection, rules of factory, 47.
Inspectorate of factories, organised by Act of 1844, 31.
Inspectors, women appointed (1893) as, 41.
Insured children, higher death rate of, 80.
Intake roads (mines), 540.
International, competition, 6;
committees suggested for industrial hygiene, 23.
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 630.
Intestinal anthrax, 641.
Iodoform manufacture, its effect on eyes, 769.
Ireland, lucifer match works in, 419;
linen trade in, 691.
Irish Carragheen Moss, 695.
Iron and steel industries, 756–60.
Iron hollow ware, tinning and enamelling of, Special Rules, 848.
Iron plates, enamelling of, 317.
Iron pyrites, oxidation produces black-damp, 541–43.
Iron-workers, death rate, 140;
eye diseases of, 771–75;
eye accidents of, 776–83.
Ironers, in laundries, 670.
Ironstone miners, included (Act of 1860) under head of coal miners,
34, 524;
death rate, 160.
Iselle, the Italian side of Simplon Tunnel, 740–42.
Italian miners, diseases of, 16;
accidents to, 520.
Italy, pellagra (_malattia della miseria_) in, 235;
experiments in non-poisonous matches, 431.
Jacquemart, Dr, Paris, 794.
_Jahrbuch für das Berg- Hütten- und Salinen-wesen im Preussischen
Staate_ 518.
Jam-making, 678;
its risks, 679.
James of Hereford, Lord, 199, 201, 202, 363–65.
Jaundice, in military balloonists, 750.
Jenner, Sir William, 178.
Jews, as glass-makers in Rome, 804.
Jockeys, popliteal aneurism in, 245.
Joiners, 790.
Johnson, Henry J., 363, 365.
Jones, Chester, 363.
Jones, Dr Lewis, 258, 263, 315.
Jones, Dr Robert, Claybury Asylum, Essex, 308.
_Journal of Morphology_, 109.
_Journal of Pathology_, 544.
_Journal of Physiology_, 484, 550.
_Journal of the Sanitary Institute_, 396.
Jungfleish, _Dangers du sécretage des poils par le mercure_, 442.
Jussieu, Antoine de, 434.
Jute, dust caused by, 276;
preparation of the fibre, 651;
process of manufacture, 652;
health conditions in factories, 654;
analyses of air in factories, 657;
tetanus produced by, 659;
mill fever, 661.
Kaffre, Azzyat Bridge (Nile), 731.
_Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte, Arbeiten aus dem_, 320, 368, 436,
448, 625, 632.
Kaolin, Chinese for porcelain clay, 347, 385.
Kassowitz, Professor, 426.
Keaves, vats for bichromate manufacture, 449.
Kennall Vale, Redruth, gunpowder explosion at, 609.
Kerr, Dr, 91.
Keygi, Professor, 325.
Kidderminster, carpet making at, 635.
Kidney disease, and plumbism, 15;
in tanners, 801;
chimney sweeps, 808.
Kieselguhr dynamite, 612.
Kirving, undercutting coal, 527, 534.
Kitasato, Professor, bacilli of tetanus first isolated by, 241.
Knackers, glanders in, 238;
anthrax, 244.
_Knapp’s Archives of Ophthalmology_, 773.
_Knappschafts-Berufsgenossenschaft für das Deutsche Reich,
Statistik der_, 512.
_Knappschafts-Berufsgenossenschaft, Berichte über die Verwaltung
der_, 517.
Knecht, E., _Manual of Dyeing_, 447.
Knies, Professor, 770.
Knight, Robert, Secretary Boilermaker’s Society, 753.
Knowles “Improved Safety Hoist,” 219, 231.
Koch, Dr, and the anthrax bacillus, 623;
on the identity of human and bovine tuberculosis, 797.
Kocher, Dr, Berne, 425, 426.
Krupp ball system, in steel works, 390.
Kubler, Dr, 625.
Kuborn, Dr, Serang, 16.
Kuiper, Dr, Jena, 426.
Kummerbund, the, 174.
Kunkel, A. J., _Handbuch der Toxikologie_, 437.
Kussmaul, Adolf, _Untersuchungen über dem constitutionellen
Mercurialismus_, 435, 437, 438.
Kyphosis, or stooping gait, in field workers, 233.
Labellers, aerated water, 687;
eye accidents to, 786.
Label-lickers in thread mills, death rate, 803.
_Labour Gazette_, 362.
_Labour Leader_, 449.
Labour, Ministry of, needed in England, 23.
Labour, Royal Commission on, 41, 186.
Labourers, agricultural, 135, 232–37;
working classes divided into artisans and, 111;
accident death rate of general, 530;
railway, risk of tuberculosis, 797.
Labouring Population, Report (1838) on Sanitary Condition of the,
45.
Lady Assistant Commissioners, Report (1893) of, 74, 83.
La Hague, plumbism in electric accumulator works at, 320.
Lailler, _Hygiène des Professions et des Industries_, 422.
Lamb’s wool, 634.
Lampblack factories, 812.
Lancashire, infant mortality in, 75;
wages of male and female workers, 88;
child labour in, 92;
mines, 158, 160;
mortality of cotton operatives, 719, 720;
tobacco workers in, 795;
plate glass manufacture in, 804.
_Lancet_, 110, 448, 475, 478, 487, 635, 808.
Lapping, of cutlery, 412.
Lathyrism, caused by chick-pea, 235.
Laundresses, pulmonary consumption in, 669.
Laundries, 42, 663–72;
machinery in, 665, 666;
factory _v._ home industry, 667;
health of workers in, 669–72.
Laurie, A. P., 8, 354,
Lawrence, Dr, 623.
Layet, Professor, on minium, 288.
Lazarus, surgeon-dentist, 474.
Lead and its compounds, 282–372;
its use in potteries, 346–65.
_Lead in the Manufacture of Pottery, Report on the Use of_, 357.
Lead dust, 275.
Lead factories, blue and white beds in, 289.
Lead foil makers, plumbism in, 370.
Lead insanity, _see_ encephalopathy.
Lead mining, 25;
and the health and surroundings of the miners, 282–86;
plumbism almost unknown in, 538.
Lead oxide, 287.
Lead poisoning, _see_ plumbism.
Lead smelting works, 42;
and plumbism, 286;
Special Rules for, 848.
Lead workers, death rate, 135, 141, 594, 595;
high mortality of their children, 303;
encephalopathy in, 307;
their clothes, 369;
Special Rules for, 829, 846, 847.
Leadless glaze, for pottery, 360, 361, 363.
Leathart, Mr, of Newcastle, 313.
_Leather Trades Circular and Review_, 633.
Le Blanc process, for manufacture of hydrochloric and sulphuric
acids, carbonate of soda, caustic soda, and bleaching powder,
569–84.
Lee, Professor, 769.
Leeds, woollen cloth manufacture in, 634.
Lefebre, Dr, 270.
Lefevre, Dr, Brest, 335.
Legge, Dr T. Morison, Medical Inspector of Factories, 297, 300,
319, 320, 338, 352, 363, 372, 400, 590, 624, 627, 632, 659.
Legislation for dangerous trades, historical sketch of its
development, 24–43;
for mines, 33;
principles of prospective, 63–72;
_see also_ factory legislation.
Leicester, hosiery manufacture in, 635.
Leipzig, anthrax in, 625.
Leloir, Dr, 270.
Lémaistre, Dr, 386.
Lepine, Dr, 734.
Letterpress Printing Works (Germany), 61.
Levy, Dr, 109.
Lewis, Mr, Factory Inspector, Swansea district, 467.
Lewis, Professor Vivian, 504, 819.
Licensed victuallers, death rate, 800.
Liège, anchylostomiasis at, 537.
Lightermen, accident death rate, 530.
Lighting of factories, 51.
Lignite mines (Germany), accidents in, 513–15, 518.
Lime, burns caused by, 785.
Lime dressers, 578.
Limes, use of, 175.
Limestone quarries, 498, 558, 562.
Limoges, and plumbism from transfer making, 366, 367;
and its porcelain, 385;
phthisis in works at, 386, 387.
Linen and flax, 691–701;
process of manufacture, 693;
bleaching, 695.
Linen and Hempen Manufacture of Ireland (1711), 692.
Linen rags, 644.
Linotyping and plumbism, 331, 332.
Liquor traffic, death rate in, 801.
Litharge, 287.
Litho-transfer works, 365–67.
Little Bolton, 76.
Littlejohn, Dr Harvey, 343, 345.
Liver diseases, in cutlers, 138;
stone quarriers, 141;
musicians, 151;
hairdressers, tailors, 153, 154;
drapers, 154;
miners, 157, 161;
occupied and unoccupied males, 164, 720;
soldiers, 174;
sailors, 183;
publicans, 802.
Llewellyn, Mr, 363.
Lloyd, Dr J. H., _Occupation Diseases_, 442.
Lockerby & Wilson, 501.
Lockjaw, or tetanus, 240–42;
its micro-organism, 241.
Locksmiths, death rate, 135, 755.
Locomotor ataxia, 802.
Loewenthal, R., _Manual of Dyeing_, 447.
Logements Insalubres (Paris), Commission des, 293.
Loire River, 730.
Lombardy, anchylostomiasis endemic in, 743.
London, outbreak of anthrax in, 625.
London and North Western Railway Insurance Society for Drivers and
Firemen, 796.
London Society of Compositors, 328;
Mortality Tables of, 330.
Londonderry, Lord, 27.
Longmore’s guard, 228.
Longton potteries, 346.
Looms, 225.
Lorinser, of Vienna, 421.
Louis, Henry, translator of Schmeisser’s _Goldfields of
Australia_, 509.
Louis, Professor, _Coal Mining_, 11, 282.
Lucifer Match Factories, Commission on, 417.
Lucifer match works, 35, 36, 43;
fragility of bones of employés in, 425;
Special Rules for, 859.
Lucifer matches, containing lead, 371;
and phosphorus, 417–33;
_safety_ and _strike-anywhere_, 419, 421, 422.
Ludlow, Harvey, 623.
Lumbago, in field workers, 232;
jam-makers, 680.
Lunacy, in field workers, 234;
lead-workers, 308, 309.
Lung disease due to dust (pneumoconiosis), 271;
in cotton operatives, 721;
brewers, 801.
Lyddite (picric acid, trinitrophenol), 599, 600, 609–11, 619.
Macaulay, Lord, 27.
MacCormac, Bart., Sir William, 699.
McDowall, Dr, Northumberland County Asylum, 799.
M’Keown, Dr W. A., _Treatise on Unripe Cataract_, 502.
M’Kinlay, Dr, 770.
M’Laren, B., _Preventible Colliery Accidents_, 516.
MacMunn, Dr, Wolverhampton, 484, 766.
Machine-makers, death rate, 755.
Machine tools, 212.
Machinery, its effect on workers, 116;
safe-guarding of, 203–31;
prime movers, 205–208;
means of stopping, 212;
accidents in agricultural, 236.
Machines, planing, 229.
Madrid, cigar factories in, 794.
Magitot, Dr, Paris, 424.
Magnus, Professor, 776.
Maize, 235.
_Mal chimique_, phosphorus necrosis, 418.
_Mal de montagnes_, 749.
Malakoff, Professor, 775.
Malaria, an old theory about, 174;
and soldiers, 177, 180;
sailors, 183;
caused by mosquitoes, 180, 186.
Maljean, Dr, 750.
Malt liquor, the London dock labourers and, 114.
Manchester, indiarubber works in, 470.
Manchester warehousemen, death rate, 154.
Manganese mud, 574, 575.
Mann, Dixon, _Forensic Medicine_, 477, 482.
Manson, Professor, on beriberi, 187.
Manufacturers, their right of arbitration, 5;
Special Rules for, 35, 827–64.
Marble quarries, 559.
Marie, Dr, 481.
Marine Service, health in the, 182–89.
Marl quarries, 558.
Marsh’s apparatus, 381.
Masons, death rate, 135;
phthisis, etc., in, 273, 274;
eye accidents to, 784, 785.
Massachusetts, anthrax in, 625.
Massicot, 287.
Match industry, and phosphorus necrosis, 20, 418–28.
Match Manufacturers Arbitration, 422.
Matches, _safety_ and _strike-anywhere_, 419, 421, 422.
Maternity _v._ factory labour, 77, 82;
field work and, 81.
Mather & Platt (Salford), on work before breakfast, 8.
_Matin, le_, 257.
Mattress-makers, liable to anthrax, 244;
their diseases, 789, 790.
Maxwell, Sir John Stirling, 14.
May, S. W., Factory Inspector, 354.
Mayence, glazed ware at, 807.
Meachem, F. G., 543.
Meakin, G. E., 363.
_Medical Chronicle_, 479.
Medical Department of the Privy Council, inquiries between 1859
and 1872 conducted by, 76.
Medical Society of London, 378, 379.
_Melbourne Argus_, 257.
Melier, Dr, 793.
Mercantile Marine, 182;
cooks in, 189;
accident death rate, 530.
Merchant Shipping Act, 182, 189.
Mercurial compounds, preparation of, 442.
Mercurial poisoning, 19, 22, 26;
industries liable to, 435–41;
mode of causation, 436;
symptoms of, 437;
preventive measures, 444;
in mines, 538.
Mercury, and its salts, dangers in use of, 434–46.
Mercury, fulminate of, 559, 602, 603, 620.
Merganthaler linotype machine, 331.
Metadinitrobenzine, 475.
Metal hollow ware, Special Rules for tinning and enamelling of,
863.
Metallic dust, 273.
Metalliferous mines, regulation of, 38, 528;
accidents in German, 513–15, 518;
more unhealthy than coal, 534.
Metalliferous Mines (Isle of Man) Act (1891), 564.
Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts (1872 and 1875), 564.
Metallochrome powder, 365.
Metallurgical industry, causes of its decline in England, 5.
Meters, electrical, 440.
Methæmoglobin, 484.
Methane, fire-damp in mines, 546.
Metropolitan Meat Market, 245.
Metropolitan District Railway, air of the, 744.
Metz, cases of anthrax at, 625.
Meyhöfer, Dr, 806.
Middlesborough, North Eastern Steel Works, 390–94.
Midland Medical Association, 466.
Migerka, Dr, _Staubarten in Wort und Bild_, 274.
Military balloonists, 750.
Military explosives, 619.
Milkers’ spasm, 821.
Mill fever, in jute workers, 661;
doffers, 699.
Mill-gearing and belts, 205, 208–11;
shaftings, pulleys, couplings, etc., 209.
Millers, death rate, 505.
Millstone building, buhrstone used for, 405, 407;
health of masons, 405, 406;
eye accidents to, 784.
Millwrights, death rate, 755.
Miners, accidents to, 11;
death rate, 156;
subject to phthisis, bronchitis, pneumonia, 273, 535;
nystagmus, 534;
eye accidents to, 776.
Miners, lead, their health and surroundings, 282–86.
Miners’ Permanent Benefit Relief Fund, 11, 531, 776 (Germany),
512–18.
Miners’ Central Association, 531, 532.
Mines, explosions and explosives in, 26, 615–18;
Acts, 28, 40;
premature death in, 30;
no protective legislation till 1842, 31;
inquests not held on accidental deaths, _ibid._;
legislation since 1860 for, 33, 37;
the air of, 540–56.
Mines and Manufactures, Report of Commission (1843) on, 35.
_Mines Legislation in Germany, France, and Belgium_, Mr
Tremenheere’s _Special Reports on_, 28.
Mining, 508–39.
Mining districts, 120.
Mining, Royal Commission (1841) on, 31.
_Ministére de l’Industrie et du Travail_, Brussels, 698.
Ministry of Labour needed in England, 23.
Minium, 287.
Miram, M., experiments in matches, 430.
Mirror-silvering, 435, 437, 440.
Mixers, in dinitrobenzol manufacture, 765.
Mixing and casting of brass and other alloys, Special Rules for,
464.
Mohair, 634.
Molten metal, and eye accidents, 781.
Monmouthshire, mines in, 158–60;
tinplate works in, 681.
Mononitrobenzine, 475, 483.
Mononitrotoluene, 476.
Mont Cenis Tunnel, 737.
Montfils, Dr, 623.
Morgan’s “Patent Safety Catch,” 221, 231.
Morse instrument (telegraphy), 819.
Mortality, of occupations, 118–33;
tables of, in dust-producing occupations, 135, 142, 274, 275;
in unhealthy occupations, 149;
occupied and unoccupied men, 162;
in sailing- and steam-ships, 184, 188;
in railwaymen, 200;
from plumbism, 298, 351;
from mining accidents, 513–32 _passim_;
in different and certain occupations, 594, 595;
from manufacture and use of explosives, 603, 605;
chief explosions in England, 608, 609;
explosions in coal mines, 617, 618;
in cotton operatives, 718–21;
in boilermakers and iron shipbuilders, 754.
Morveau, Guyton de, 293.
Mosquitoes, and malaria, 180, 186.
Mosso, Professor, Turin University, 105.
Motais, Dr, Paris, 327.
Motes in the eye, from steel-grinding, 777.
Mother-of-pearl grinding causes phthisis, 276.
Mothers in factories, employment of, 73 _et seq._
Motor cars, manufacture of, and plumbism, 322.
Moulton, Fletcher, 363.
Mountain climbers, and diminished atmospheric pressure, 749.
Moxon, Professor, 747.
Mules, self-acting, 223–25;
in cotton spinning, 703.
Mungo rags, 644.
Murray, Dr William, Birmingham, _Chronic Brass Poisoning_, 466.
Muscarin, poisonous constituent in mushroom-poisoning, 237.
Muscular system, effect of dinitrobenzine poison on, 479.
Muscular work, means for measuring, 105.
Mushroom-poisoning, and field-workers, 237.
Musicians, death rate, 151.
Myrbane (nitro- and dinitrobenzine), 591.
Nail and chain making, 758.
Nail diseases in furriers, 270.
Naphtha, in indiarubber works, 470;
in dry cleaning works, 491.
Naphthalene, 475.
Napias, M. le Docteur, 57.
Nasal septum ulceration, caused by bichromes, 451.
_Nature_, 252.
Navy, health of the, 184.
Naxos, Island of, emery stone quarries in, 813.
Necrosis, _see_ phosphorus necrosis.
Needle-grinding, dust from, 276.
Nervous diseases, in potters, etc., 136;
cutlers, file-cutters, 138, 595;
glass-makers, 139, 595;
iron-workers, 141;
lead-workers, 143, 595;
brass-workers, 145;
wool-workers, 148;
printers, musicians, 151;
tailors, drapers, 154;
miners, 158, 161, 162;
occupied and unoccupied men, 164, 595, 720;
due to dinitrobenzine, 480, 481;
copper-workers, carpenters, earthenware makers, 595;
agriculturists, cotton operatives, 720;
blacksmiths, 757.
Neuritis, peripheral, in indiarubber workers, 472.
Neurosis, occupation or fatigue, 764, 815.
New Almaden mines, California, 538.
New Australian Electric Light Co. (Richmond), 257.
New South Wales, eight hours’ day in, 8.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, cases of plumbism at, 297–300;
fireclay, 399, 400;
copper-smelting at, 466.
Newcastle Asylum at Cox Lodge, 799.
Newcastle City Asylum, 800.
Newcastle Royal Infirmary, 298, 312, 336, 360, 732, 793, 799, 806,
808, 823.
Newett, Dr, Ligoneill, 695.
Newlands, Archibald, Factory Inspector, 814.
Niagara Falls, 498.
Nieden, Dr, 482, 764.
Nitrate, of mercury, 446;
of silver, 441;
of soda, 581.
Nitrate mixtures, 446;
as explosives, 602.
Nitric acid, 442, 581.
Nitric peroxide, 555, 556.
Nitric oxide, 556.
Nitro-benzine, 591.
Nitro-cellulose, 600, 603, 614, 619.
Nitro-compounds, 483, 602.
Nitro-cotton, 600, 614.
Nitro-glycerine, 555, 600, 612;
explosives, 536, 603, 605;
physiological effects of, 613.
Nitro-powders, 599.
Nitrogen, and black-damp, 542, 543;
and after-damp, 549.
Nitrous fumes, 581.
Nobel, Alfred, discovers blasting gelatine, 600, 614.
Noble, 611.
Non-textile industries, accidents in, 12;
machinery in, 227–30.
North Eastern Steel Works, Middlesborough, 390.
Northamptonshire mines, 158–61.
Northumberland County Asylum, 799.
Northumberland and Durham Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund, 11, 532.
Northumberland Miners’ Mutual Confident Association, 9.
Northumberland mines, 158–61.
Norway, phosphorus necrosis in, 421.
Norwich, effect of electric shock on dogs at, 256.
Nottingham, annual meeting of British Medical Association at
(1892), 87.
Nottinghamshire mines, 158–60.
Novgorod, Russia, anthrax at, 625.
Nuisance Removal Act, 29.
Nuremberg, mirror-silvering at, 435.
Nurserymen, mortality of, 129.
Nystagmus, miners’, 534, 761–64.
Oakeshott, Miss Grace, 795.
Occupation disease, its causation, 15, 16;
difficulty of recognising, 17;
dust as a cause of, 267–77;
due to excessively repeated muscular actions, 815–25.
Occupations, mortality of, 118–33.
Occupied and unoccupied men, mortality of, 162, 594, 595, 719, 720.
Ocean Accident Insurance Co., 21.
Œdematous anthrax, 636.
Official Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund of the German Empire,
512–18.
Ogle, Dr, 120, 125, 128, 136, 137, 152, 535, 755, 800, 809.
Oil engines, 206;
safety starting-gear for, 208.
Oligocythemia, 484.
Oliver, a sledge hammer, 759.
Oliver, Prof. Thomas, on death from electric shock, 258;
_Lead Poisoning_ (Gulstonian Lectures), 304;
on Allbutt’s _System of Medicine_, 309, 477;
his Report on Lead Compounds in Pottery, 351;
_Acetylene, the New Illuminant, etc._, 502.
Olten, death from electric shock at, 253.
Omdurman, effect of lyddite shells at, 600.
Onimus, Dr (France), on telegraphists’ spasm--mal télégraphique,
819.
Openers, tinplate works, 681.
Ophthalmia, in flax workers, 698;
hop pickers, 783;
confectioners, 798.
_Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom, Transactions of_, 770.
Opiates, administered to infants, 78–80.
Opium, used in fen districts for ague, 234.
Oram, R. E. Sprague, Factory Inspector, 462.
Orange lead works, Special Rules for, 846.
Orthonitrobenzine, 475.
Osborn, Mr, Factory Inspector, 705, 716.
Osteo-arthritis, in field-workers, 232;
quarriers, 564.
Osteomyelitis, 276.
Ostlers, subject to glanders and farcy, 238.
Ottawa, fire at Dominion Carbide Works, 501.
Overwork, on railways, 193.
Oxidation of iron pyrites causes black-damp, 541–43.
Oxide, lead, 287;
of cobalt, 348.
Oxygen, and black-damp, 541–45;
and fire-damp, 547;
in explosives, 610.
Oxyhæmoglobin, 484.
Paardeberg, 178;
lyddite fumes at, 611.
Pagliani, Professor, 112, 739.
Paint, manufacture of white, 313, 447;
and colour factories, Special Rules for, 831.
Painters, and lead colic, 17;
lead insanity in, 308;
and plumbism, 333–38, 770;
washing of their clothes, 369;
eye troubles due to arsenic, 770.
Paints, use of inflammable or spirit, 494–96.
Palmar fascia, contraction of the (among gardeners), 233, 237.
Pantin-Aubervilliers, France, match works at, 421, 429–32;
plumbism at, 429.
Paperhangers, eye troubles due to arsenic, 770.
Paper makers, 644.
Paraffin, cancer among workers in, 812.
Paralysis, in file-cutters, 343;
electric treatment of, 374;
treatment of divers’, 746, 748.
Paranitrobenzine, 475.
Paris, lead poisoning in, 311, 333, 334;
tobacco factories in, 794.
Parkes and Kenwood, _Hygiene and Public Health_, 379.
Parsons, Dr, 647.
Pasteur, his treatment of hydrophobia, 243;
of anthrax, 623;
on disease-carrying germs, 797.
Pasteur-Chamberland bacterial filter, 175.
Paterson, Miss, Factory Inspector, 302.
Pathology and physiology of work and fatigue, 104–17.
Pattinson process for desilvering lead ore, 287.
Paul, M. Constantin, 302.
Peacock, Dr, 382.
Pearson _v._ Belgian Mills Company, 213.
Peel, Sir Robert, 191.
Pellagra (_malattia della miseria_), due to bad maize, 235.
Pembrey, Llanelly, dynamite explosion at, 608.
Pennsylvania, anthrax caused by tannery refuse in, 624.
Pens, and writers’ palsy, 815, 818, 819.
Percy, Dr, _Fuel_, 396.
Peripheral neuritis, caused by bisulphide of carbon in indiarubber
works, 472;
by dinitrobenzine, 486.
Perron, M., of Besançon, 468.
Perroncito, Professor, Turin, 743.
Persulphocyanic acid, 431.
Petroleum Acts (1871–1881), 499.
Phenylene-diamine, 483.
Philatelists, danger of stamp-licking, 804.
Philip, Dr, Edinburgh, 473.
_Philosophical Transactions_ (1665), 434.
Phosphorus, its use limited in Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium,
60;
and lucifer matches, 417–33, 592.
Phosphorus necrosis (“phossy jaw,” _mal chimique_), 14, 16, 18–20,
22, 418, 420, 421, 424;
its cause and prevention, 426–428;
its treatment, 433.
Phossy-jaw, see phosphorus necrosis.
Photography, use of bichromes in, 448.
Phthisis, potters’, 15, 135, 136;
its incidence, 131, 132;
in dusty occupations, 135;
earthenware makers, 135, 595;
cotton operatives, 135, 720, 721;
locksmiths, bakers, 135, 505;
blacksmiths, 135, 505, 757;
coopers, wood-turners, rope-makers, bricklayers, masons, carpet
manufacturers, tin-workers, 135;
cutlers, 135, 137, 595;
file-cutters, 135, 139, 342, 595;
glass-makers, 135, 595, 805;
copper-workers, 135, 140, 595;
gunsmiths, 135, 145;
zinc, iron, and steel workers, 135, 141;
stone quarriers, 135, 143, 562;
lead-workers, 135, 143, 595;
brass-workers, 135, 145;
chimney sweeps, 135, 146;
wool-workers, 135, 148;
agriculturists, 135, 234, 720;
textile workers, 147;
in certain unhealthy occupations, 149;
bookbinders, 150, 151;
printers, 150, 151, 275;
hatters, 152;
tailors, 154;
drapers, shoemakers, 155;
miners, 157, 159, 161, 162, 535;
in occupied and unoccupied men, 164, 595, 720;
soldiers, 168;
sailors, 183;
gardeners, 237;
can be caused by dust, 272;
in porcelain and cement makers, masons, 274;
typographers, 275, 329, 330;
mother-of-pearl grinders, 276;
Durham lead miners, 284;
at Limoges potteries, 386;
indiarubber makers, 473;
millers, 505;
brewers, 595, 801;
carpenters, chemical and flax workers, 595;
laundresses, 669;
boilermakers and shipbuilders, 754;
upholsterers, 789;
railwaymen, 796;
publicans, 801;
coal heavers and trimmers, 808.
Physiology and pathology of work and fatigue, 104–17.
Physique of working classes, 7.
Pianoforte-players’ cramp, 821.
Picklers, in tinplate works, 682;
women as assistant, 684.