WORKERS' SUN TEST
NOVEL EXPERIMENT IN THE ENGLISH MIDLANDS. The sun’s effect on the health of workers is to be tested in novo] fashion at large new commercial offices which have been built alongside the main entrance of Fort Dunlop, near Birmingham. All the windows on the first floor have been glazed with vitaglass to admit the sun’s ultra-violet rays, which are cut off by ordinary glass 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 health giving rays 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 rays.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 90, 16 April 1929, Page 11
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161WORKERS' SUN TEST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 90, 16 April 1929, Page 11
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