Applications {rom owners of boiler yards to be registered with the Couns iL have boon received. from several manufacturers, Not all those engaged in the process have, however, yet complied with requirements industrial and occupational ac+ eidents were reported during May.
there seven were fatal. one woman losing her life. Sixteen women were injured. The causes of 194 are known with suitieient accuracy, and 51 caves were the subject of detailed inves~ Uxation and instruction.
There were 89 accidents inthe machinery and metal products trades, 37 (one fatal) in transportation un= dertaking, 36 (hree fatal) inthe textile industry, 18 (one fatal) on building "and yond construction, (one fatal) in printing, trade, "and ong other fatal Classified by causes, 0 were avon elated with machinery moved mechanical power. One fatality curred through a bell, one through 'Tift, and a third through calender, One tality was due to a case of electrocution. 51 persons were me Jared, one fatally, by falling, and 29 one fatally) by being struck' by follo Industeiat Pires.
Thirty-one fires occurred in indus trial enterprises during May. Ten persons. were injured as a result, three of them fatally, The greatest number of tires, eight, broke out in machinery and metal products plants followed by seven in textile under kings, four in plants ering, yemicil products, three each in eel Tuloid manufacturing and woodwork= nye plants, oe each in dry-cleaning, and printing plants, and four in other types of undertaking Group tnstruetion.
Evening Classess—(u) The Spring term of twelve weeks? instruction for wel" and No. 1 fitiers from tries in the Western District dored May 12, On May 19 certitiefates Indicating. that the recipients had attended 90 per cent. of th we tures. were issued to 35 "ao kwel ill A No, 1 fitters. A' discussion took place with the class: members a to the suitability of the offered, and views were sought upon which the Autumn term of instruc tion anight be based. A conference the seven Chinese engineers who taught inthe experience gained by them Spring term will be used in pai the Avtunn tern, th) Avfirst class to be held in the Northern district composed of those Fesponsible for the operation—of boilers and boi tendants was opened on, May 30, "By, kind pee, Health, this class meets in the No, 3 Northern Branch Health Osice, North Fokien Road. G4 students enrolled from 47 separate factories. 17 attendants from dyeing factories, ind 17 from sills Hlatures attended.
Conferences, Three _xroup conferences were held during the month. Those—at~ tending were, respectively, owners of factories engaged in the marine scture of straw. hats; owners of plants where accidents have oceured on power presses since the beinning of the year; owners of plants
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