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THE investigations carried out under the direction of the Industrial Health Research Board, Medical Research Council, during the year ended June 1939 are contained in the nineteenth annual report of the Board, recently issued (H.M. Stationery Office. 6d. net). These include a research on the toxicity of various volatile organic substances, now increasingly used as solvents in industry, work on mental integration with special reference to accidents and vocational fitness, and on vocational aptitudes, and researches on the physiological problems of heating and ventilation. Environmental conditions, such as lighting and vision, noise and deafness, and the effects on health produced by inhalation of dusts met with in industry, have also been investigated, and summaries of the results obtained are included in the report.
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Health Problems of Industry. Nature 144, 1008 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441008d0
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