CHAPTER X. Part of Their Wages

PART OF THEIR WAGES

In considering the earnings, as distinguished from the rates of wages, of the manual labour classes, we have found it necessary to make an allowance for time lost through sickness and accidents. Let us now examine the available records of the industrial accidents and diseases of occupations which are part of the wages of the working classes, and at the price of which the comforts of the well-to-do are purchased.

As to persons employed in factories and workshops, we have the reports made to the inspectors under the Factory and Workshop Act of 1901. By