A SUN TEST.
EFFECT ON WORKERS. EXPERIMENT IN ENGLAND. The sun's effect on the health of workers is to be tested in novel fashion at large new commercial offices which have been built alongside the mam entrance of Fort Dunlop. near Birmingham. All the windows en the first floor have l>een glazed with vitaglasa to admit the sun's ultra-violet rays, which are cut off by ordinary g!aw». Careful records are to be kept of the health of the workers on this floor and compared with similar statistics taken of the workers on the other three floors. A similar experiment carried out in Lancashire showed that there was much less absenteeism amongst those employed in a shop reached by the liealthgiving ravs than amongst other groups working" behind ordinary windows in the same factory. Should the sun workers at Fort Dunlop show any such gains, every window in the great new building is to be glazed to admit the ultra-violet raya. "Decorators' and Painters Magagine."
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19644, 13 June 1929, Page 4
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164A SUN TEST. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19644, 13 June 1929, Page 4
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