, 1886-02-28
EMPLOYEES DANGERS.
some OF THE HAZARDS TO WHICH
WORkMEN ARE EXPOSED.

Demonstrating and Its Eject Upon the
Bowels = steeI-Grinders and Rheum-
atism-Cement In the Lungs-Perils OF
Cut-Giass-Tobaceo-Feathers-
The sanitary inspector of the New York
board Of health has prepared a list of in
juries arising from the inhalation OF dust.
In his report appears the following:
In diamond-cutting the amount of dust
created Is small. and yet the occupation
is a very injurious one. The SETTER" pre-
pares the diamond for the cutter by sol
dering 1t on the end of a copper rod with
m alloy four parts of lead IND one Of tin.
He does this with a charcoal fire, and Is
exposed to great heat as well as poison
Gus gases. The settlers suffer from head
ache, tinnitus aurium, impaired digestion
and irregularity OF the bowels.
File-cutters work with hammer and cold
chisel, holding the blank on the anvil by
a strap passed under the feet, and putting
ant or other dust on the anvil to keep
the iron from slipping. They have to
bend over their work, keep the eyes
keenly fixed upon 1t, are exposed to metal
lie and mineral dust, and, in making
coarse files, to great bodily exertion, their
hammers often weighing as much rs six
pounds. Phthisis is very common among
them.
DUST OF METAL AND STONE.
Grinders of steel are also liable to in
jury from flying PARTICLES of metal, which
are intensely heated by friction and scat
ter In the form OF sparks, producing occa-
sionally severe burns of the cornea.
Grindstones sometimes burst when driven
at a very high velocity, and the fragments
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fly off at a tangent. Those who work at
wet grinding, while they are relieved
from the danger of dust, are covered with
the spatterings from the stone, consisting
of mud and water, and SO are kept con-
stantly wet and cold. They are
more liable than the others to
rheumatism, pneumonia and bronchitis
of an acute form, due to such exposure,
Workmen who make Portland cement
are greatly troubled by the dust caused
by shoveling the mass into sacks, after it
has been burned and ground. They have
a persistent cough and expectorate little
Jumps OF cement. Stone-cutters work
with hammer and chisel, and not only in
hale considerable dust, but are liable to
injury from the flying chips and oc-
casional sparks from the chisel. The in
halation of dust produces in them fire.
quently the form of phthisis.
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