Note 190 — Chapter VI · THE LIFE OF THE INSPECTOR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LEGISLATION; EXPERIENCES IN COURTS

This assertion appears to be supported by the summaries I made for the Annual Reports for 1894, pp. 33–4, on French laws and orders, and for 1895, pp. 136–219, on German and Austrian industrial codes, and in various other places, before public interest in comparative labour legislation had been awakened.

References by Women Inspectors, and particularly by Miss Squire to law and administration in other industrial countries, appear in my Annual Reports over and over again, generally where our laws were inadequate to remedy complaints. For instance, complaints on defective light in the factory, lack of washing conveniences, on heavy weight carrying and dangerous processes (see Annual Reports of Chief Inspector for 1897, pp. 103–5; 1898, p. 169; 1899, p. 239; 1904, p. 243).

I also visited continental countries to inspect factories with the Inspectors of the country, and to study their office methods (see Annual Reports, 1899, 1901, and 1902), and to take part in Congresses and International Exhibitions (see Annual Reports, 1903, 1911, and 1920).

I began to study fatigue prevention after conferring with Dr. Josefa Joteyko in Brussels in 1903.