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Dangerous Trades

Dangerous Trades

by Sir Thomas Oliver

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Editor
Oliver, Thomas, Sir, 1853-1942
Title
Dangerous trades : the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health
Original Publication
London: John Murray, 1902.
Credits
deaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
Subject
Hazardous occupations
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 78617
Release Date
May 6, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Dangerous Trades
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.LIST OF CONTENTS
  5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6.LIST OF AUTHORS
  7. 7.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
  8. 8.CHAPTER II HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION FOR INJURIOUS AND DANGEROUS INDUSTRIES IN ENGLAND
  9. 9.CHAPTER III REGULATION OF INJURIOUS OR DANGEROUS OCCUPATIONS IN FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS IN SOME OF THE CHIEF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
  10. 10.CHAPTER IV PRINCIPLES OF PROSPECTIVE LEGISLATION FOR DANGEROUS TRADES
  11. 11.CHAPTER V INFANT MORTALITY AND FACTORY LABOUR — I — II
  12. 12.CHAPTER VI CHILD LABOUR
  13. 13.CHAPTER VII HOME-WORK
  14. 14.CHAPTER VIII THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF WORK AND FATIGUE
  15. 15.CHAPTER IX MORTALITY OF OCCUPATIONS
  16. 16.CHAPTER X DUST-PRODUCING OCCUPATIONS — MORTALITY OF UNOCCUPIED AND OCCUPIED MEN.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XI THE DISEASES OF SOLDIERS AT HOME AND ABROAD
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII HEALTH IN THE MARINE SERVICE
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIII RAILWAYS
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIV SAFE-GUARDING OF MACHINERY
  21. 21.ADDENDA.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XV AGRICULTURE; HORSES; CATTLE — Agriculture — Horses. — Cattle.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVI ELECTRIC GENERATING WORKS — APPENDIX I. — APPENDIX II.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVII DUST AS A CAUSE OF OCCUPATION DISEASE — General View of the Subject. — Skin Diseases of Flax Workers. — Diseases of Nails in Furriers. — Lung Diseases due to Dust. — Gastro-intestinal Lesions.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII DUST WOMEN
  26. 26.CHAPTER XIX LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS — Lead-mining and the Health and Surroundings of the Miner. — Lead-smelting. — Red Lead ; Lead Oxide ; Litharge ; Massicot ; Minium . — White Lead ; Carbonate of Lead ( Céruse , Fr.) — Treatment—Preventive and Curative. — Chromate of Lead; Dye Works. — Calico Printing. — Enamelling of Iron Plates and Hollow Ware. — Electric Accumulator Works and Lead Poisoning. — Motor Cars. — Electric Tramways. — Recommendations. — Soldering. — Typefounding ; Printing ; Typesetting ; Linotyping . — Plumbing. — House Painting. — Coach Painting. — Glass Polishing. — File Cutting. — Use of Lead in Potteries. — Chromo-lithographic Works and Transfer Making. — Tile-making and Manufacture of Porcelain Stoves. — Washing of Lead-workers’ and Painters’ Clothes. — Lead Foil Manufacture. — Shoe-finishing and Staining by Lead Compounds. — Lucifer Matches containing Lead. — Buffing of Brass Cocks and Plumbism. — APPENDIX
  27. 27.CHAPTER XX ELECTRICAL TREATMENT IN CASES OF LEAD POISONING
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXI ARSENIC
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXII CHINA AND EARTHENWARE MANUFACTURE: POTTERS’ ROT
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIII BASIC SLAG
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXIV GANISTER CRUSHING — Report on Portions of Lung from a Ganister Miner.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXV MILLSTONE BUILDING: FRENCH BUHRSTONE
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVI STEEL GRINDING
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXVII PHOSPHORUS AND LUCIFER MATCHES
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXVIII DANGERS IN THE USE OF MERCURY AND ITS SALTS
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXIX THE LESIONS RESULTING FROM THE MANUFACTURE AND USES OF POTASSIUM AND SODIUM BICHROMATE
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXX COPPER AND BRASS
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXI INDIA-RUBBER: DANGERS INCIDENTAL TO THE USE OF BISULPHIDE OF CARBON AND NAPHTHA
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXII
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIII DRY CLEANING BY MEANS OF BENZINE
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIV USE OF INFLAMMABLE OR SPIRIT PAINTS
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXV ACETYLENE AND ITS DANGERS
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVI FLOUR MILLS
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVII MINING
  45. 45.CHAPTER XXXVIII THE AIR OF MINES
  46. 46.CHAPTER XXXIX QUARRIES
  47. 47.CHAPTER XL THE CHEMICAL TRADES
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLI EXPLOSIONS AND EXPLOSIVES — Introductory — I. Accidents in Manufacture and Use. — II. Products of Combustion: Fumes. — III. Explosives in Coal Mines.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLII ANTHRAX — Hides and Horsehair.
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLIII ANTHRAX—ITS RELATION TO THE WOOL INDUSTRY
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLIV RAGS AND THEIR PRODUCTS IN RELATION TO HEALTH — Rag-Sorting, Rag-Grinding, Shoddy, Mungo, Flocks, Carbonising or Wool-Extracting
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLV BLANKET STOVING
  53. 53.CHAPTER XLVI JUTE — Health Conditions.
  54. 54.CHAPTER XLVII LAUNDRY WORKERS
  55. 55.CHAPTER XLVIII FISH-CURING AND FRUIT-PRESERVING — The Preserving of Fruit.
  56. 56.CHAPTER XLIX WOMEN’S LABOUR IN TINPLATE WORKS
  57. 57.CHAPTER L WOMEN’S LABOUR IN AERATED WATER WORKS
  58. 58.CHAPTER LI FLAX AND LINEN — Historical, Manufacturing, Hygienic, and Medical.
  59. 59.CHAPTER LII MANUFACTURE OF COTTON — Order of the Secretary of State, dated 2nd February 1898, making regulations for the protection of health in Cotton Cloth Factories.
  60. 60.CHAPTER LIII RABBIT DOWN
  61. 61.CHAPTER LIV DISEASES DUE TO WORKING IN COMPRESSED AND STAGNANT AIR — Caisson Disease. — Dangers Incidental to the Making of, and Working in, Tunnels. — Underground Railways. — Divers’ Paralysis.
  62. 62.CHAPTER LV DISEASES DUE TO DIMINISHED ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE: PURE AND IMPURE GASES — Mountain Climbers; Military Balloonists.
  63. 63.CHAPTER LVI EFFECTS OF CONCUSSION OF THE AIR — Boilermakers and Riveters. — Boilermakers, Shipwrights, etc.
  64. 64.CHAPTER LVII IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES — Exposure to High Temperatures, and Severe Muscular Strain. — Blacksmiths and Forgemen. — Use of Converters in Steel Works. — Nail and Chain Making.
  65. 65.CHAPTER LVIII EYE DISEASES AND EYE ACCIDENTS IN RELATION TO INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS — 1. Diseases due to occupations involving prolonged use or excessive strain of the eyes, such as nystagmus in miners and others. — 2. Diseases due to occupations involving the use of certain poisonous substances, such as, dinitrobenzol, bisulphide of carbon, tobacco, lead, etc. — 3. Diseases due to occupations involving exposure to excessive light or heat, or both, such as burnishers, steel melters, electric welders, etc. — 4. Injuries or accidents amongst grinders, iron and steel workers, masons, coal miners, weavers, etc.
  66. 66.CHAPTER LIX MISCELLANEOUS TRADES — Silicate of Cotton. — Upholsterers’ Occupation. — Joiners and Carpenters: Workers in Sequoia Wood. — Manufacture of Celluloid. — Tobacco and Cigar Manufacture. — Engine-Drivers and Railway Employés. — Drivers of Public Vehicles. — Cooks. — Confection Makers. — Domestic Servants and Housemaids, etc. — Barmen and Dealers in Alcoholic Drinks. — Sewing-Machine Workers. — Label-licking. — Glass Manufacture: Glass-Blowing. — Glazed Ware Poisonous from other Causes than Lead.—Cyanide of Potassium. — Coal-heaving, Coal-trimming, and Chimney-sweeping. — Manufacture and Use of Emery Wheels.
  67. 67.CHAPTER LX OCCUPATION DISEASES DUE TO EXCESSIVELY REPEATED MUSCULAR ACTIONS. — Fatigue Neuroses: Scriveners’ Spasm, or Writers’ Palsy. — Telegraphists’ Spasm, or Cramp. — Pianoforte Players’ Cramp, etc. — Shoemakers’ Spasm. — Boot and Shoe Making.
  68. 68.APPENDIX — SPECIAL RULES
  69. 69.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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