UNHEALTHY OFFICES.
CONSUMPTION AMONG CLERKS IKsNDb»;.;>i«r. k "Worry, and not work, is ; responsible for the - tired faces of city clerks," 1 " said Dr. Charles-Thomson, of the Institute of Hygiene, in the course of a lecture. '. "Clerks are haunted 'by ~ the fear of poverty in their old age, butjthey should not be. They should send a deputation to the Minister for Health and point out that their death-rate from consumption is above the average. s •' "They should also request that the good work done in inspecting factories and workshops should be extended to the offices in which clerks work. <• • "The healthiest clerks are Ihqse who work in insurance: offices; the next those in banks, third . comes , the .Civil Service, and fourth the railways. Commercial clerks are the" uahealthiest of all."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18662, 19 March 1924, Page 9
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