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No. 1--Sunday Labour.
No. 2--Welfare Supervision.
No. 3--Industrial Canteens.
No. 4--Employment of Women.
No. 5--Hours of Work.
No. 6--Canteen Construction and Equipment (Appendix to No. 3).
No. 7--Industrial Fatigue and Its Causes. No. 8--Special Industrial
Diseases.
No. 9--Ventilation and Lighting of Munition Factories and Workshops.
No. 10--Sickness and Injury.
No. 11--Investigation of Workers' Food and Suggestions as to Dietary.
(Report by Leonard E. Hill, F.R.S.)
No. 12--Statistical Information Concerning Output in Relation to Hours
of Work. (Report by H.M. Vernon, M.D.)
No. 13--Juvenile Employment.
No. 14--Washing Facilities and Baths.
No. 15--The Effect of Industrial Conditions Upon Eyesight.
No. 16--Medical Certificates for Munition Workers.
also, Feeding the Munition Worker.
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Dante Goethe Walter Pater
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold Dostoievsky
El Greco Shelley Edgar Allan Poe
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Charles Lamb Nietzsche Conclusion
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