History of Factory and Mine Hygiene / Ludwig Teleky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teleky, Ludwig, 1872-1957, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial hygiene.

Medicine, Industrial--History.

Medicine, Industrial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1948]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Outlines the history of the hygiene of factories and their installations as well as that of the work itself, the health safeguards in dangerous occupations, and of the protection of miners in England, Germany, and the United States.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword by Alice Hamilton, M.D.

Author's Preface

Contents

1. Development of Industrial Hygiene

2. Legislation in Europe and the United States

3. Organizations and Associations Cooperating in Industrial Hygiene

4. Institutions in Factories for Promotion of Industrial Hygiene

5. Methods of Preventing Injuries to Health

6. Prevention of Accidents

7. Education, Propaganda, Safety First

8. Research and Studies

9. The Progress in other Sciences and Its Influence on Industrial Hygiene

10. Special Problems

11. Mines and Miners

12. The Effects of Industrial Hygiene

13. Summary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231883672

0231883676

OCLC:

1100433815