There has been a greater proportion of workers fatally injured while engaged in the building trade than there was last year, there being 20 fatalities and 105 injuries for seven months as against 11 fatalities and 133 injuries for the twelve months of 1936. Again the absence of proper safeguards in scaffolding led to a number of fatal accidents, fifteen of the twenty workers killed having come to their death as the result of falls.
Transport That 118 accidents were found to po due to transport work, though only two of these were fatal. This is against the 263 reported in 1936 of which number 10 were fatal.
Rules for Steam Plant Installations and of plate for whose satisfactory quality no evidence is available. Notification was served on foreign firms who had been accustomed to have regular inspection, and a request was made for compliance with the rules, Registration of boilers known to have been insured and regularly inspected was however permitted to be postponed until the due inspection date. Considering, how ever, that this report covers Њe first year of application of the rules, the fact that 286 steam boilers have actually been under supervision, even if the work of repair has not yet been completed, represents a considerable progress.
In any reform, gradual application is imperative. "Hence a first em-Dbasis has been made on boilers, and a tacit postponement where asked for and for the time being, of enforcement of the mules as applying to steam piping and to other vessels under pressure in the plant. Hence also, locations of boilers which are not Considered satisfactory have been "temporarily approved." Better an inspected boiler in an unsatisfactory location than an uninspected one. It must be left for the next few years to induce owners of boilers which are situated in alley way houses to move io more suitable premises. To tempt to achieve this an inspection of boilers in a first year of enforcement would have been to fail in both,
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