Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Bibliographic data

Monograph

Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Chapter V. - Working conditions in factories

Collection:: Economics Books

WORKING CONDITIONS IN FACTORIES. 59 system of humidification employed, and here there has been an encour: aging improvement in recent years. Some of the cotton mills which we visited are, in the hot weather, much pleasanter than the outside atmosphere and we understand that those employers who have spent large sums in installing the best cooling and humidifying plants have had gratifying results in production. This improvement has followed, and 18 to some extent traceable to, the investigation conducted for the Govern- ment of India by Mr Maloney. The main object of the enquiry was to devise a reasonable method of controlling the use of humidification, and Mr Maloney suggested a basis, which is being gradually, if slowly, adopt- ed. We received no serious criticism of the solution suggested in the report, and we consider that rigorous action should be taken against those factories where conditions are worst. Side by side with the ad- vanced mills, there are others where the atmosphere in the weaving sheds is almost unendurable, even in the cold weather. There is no justifica- tion, except possibly defects in the law, for permitting the continuance of the conditions that prevail in the worst sheds. It was suggested to us in Bombay that the provisions of the Factories Act are not sufficiently elastic to permit of the framing of all the rules that are desirable. This point deserves attention. In particular we note that section 9 appears to contemplate only the prevention of practices definitely injurious to health ; it should also protect the operative from serious discomfort. even where injury to health is not a necessary result. II. SAFETY. Reporting of Accidents. The following table gives the results of the reported accidents in all factories subject to the Factories Act since the definition of “ factory’ was widened in 19292. No. of persons injured. Year. Fatal. Serious. Minor. 1922 191 197 284 1.207 5.562 1923 1924 1925 1996 1,333 1.680 5,007 8.055 263 270 2,181 2155 9,901 11.441 1927 242 1928 | 9264 | 3.494 | lo29 . = 240 12.066 12.590 15.579 Total. 6.960 7.037 10,029 ! 12,645 14.866 15,711 16,348 20.908 No. of persons injured per 100,000 emnloyees, Fatal. Serious. Minor. Total. 14 80 | 409 91' 301 118 ' 565 166 662 908 | 753 922 230 | "a2 499 703 846 979 1,025 1,075 1.301 17" 20! 18 ~g 1 7 ro 083 | 1.003 The table brings out the fact that the proportion . accidents to operatives which, prior to 1922. had shown only small fluctuations for a generation,

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation