Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-24

girlhood, sanitary questions affecting the
school children of the country and SINH
lar topics.
A paper on THE Study of Fatigue and
its Application to Industrial Workers,
by Miss Josephine Goldmark Of New
York was the feature of yesterday after
Moons session of section ~, on the
hygiene of occupations. Miss Goldmark
is secretary of the National Consumers
League. and has taken a prominent part
in securing better working conditions for
! women in several states of the Union
having been particularly active in the
campaign against twelve-hour working
day for women in Oregon, the fight Of the
laundrymen of Illinois against more sani-
tary conditions and better hours for
woman workers in their establishments,
and other legislative measures of this
nature
1.-The essential injury of overtime
work is due to what has been graph
ically proved in the laboratory with the
ergograph.' said Miss Godmark be
cause effort increases with fatigue; be-
cause work continued after fatigue has
set in requires So much more subsequent
time for recuperation. but during a rush
| or overtime season such time for recuper-
alton is necessarily lacking.
1.-The clerk who is kept in the great
department store until II. IL or o'cloc :
at night during one two frenZfed wee IS
before Christmas: the girl who works at
fever heat stitching women's waists in
January for the spring trade. is not re-
lieved of the necessity of reporting for
work the next morning. She comes to
work unrested, and with each day of
overtime accumulated fatigue necessarily
grows.
at is precisely here that the aid of sci
ence is so urgently needed and has hith-
erto been almost wholly lacking. The
most hopeful method of combating
overfatigue and exhaustion in industry
are two: Legislation prohibiting excessive
hours of labor, and education of en-
ployes For the employer who desires the
greatest efficiency of his clerks such leg
isation is essential to protect him against
the successful undertaking of unscrupu-
lous competitors.
Miss Goldmark presented elaborate sta
tistical data to prove that the workday
hours in a great majority of industries
in nearly all of the states, in spite of oc-
casional remedial legislation, on the av-
erage, still are unduly prolonged.
Sections General Topic.
The general topic of the section ses-
sion was THE Physiology and Pathology
Of Work and Fatigue" DIR. George NJ.
Kober, professor of hygiene of George
town University. is the section president,
the secretary being DR.. Alice Hamilton
Of Hull House. Chicago.
Other papers read at the session were:
Relation of Food to Fatigue by Prof
Martin Hahn. Freiberg. I. B.. Germany;
THE Effects of Temperature and HUI
nudity on Fatigue" by Prof. Frederic S.
Lee. Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York
Fatigue Factors in Certain Occupa-
tions." by Prof. Shepherd L. Franz of
George Washington University. and the
opening discussion of the general topic,
presented by Prof. A. Imbert. Montpelier,
France.
the opening discussion was to have been
presented by Prof. William A. White of
George Washington University. Owing
TO the enforced absence of. Prof. White,
his paper was read by Dr. Cassamajor
of New York 1t discussed in q highly
technical vein the systemic changes ef-