Buy this book on-line MINERS PHTHISIS COMMISSION : Report of the Miners' Phthisis Commission 1902-1903, with Minutes of Proceedings and Minutes of EvidenceGovernment Printing and Stationery Office, Pretoria, 1903
Very good in the original pale blue printed wrappers, the wrappers somewhat chipped at extremities, the text block clean and tight. A key document, and very uncommon. Mining in the early days in South Africa could be described as a period of ignorance regarding the dangers of mine dust, and the miners worked under arduous conditions in atmospheres with a very high dust concentration. In 1902 Lord Milner appointed a miner's phthisis commission to investigate the incidence of phthisis among South African miners and to study methods to eliminate the dust hazard. This report revealed that 15,4 percent of the 1 201 miners examined were suffering from miner's phthisis, and another 7,3% were suspect. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MINERS PHTHISIS COMMISSION : Report of the Miners' Phthisis Commission 1902-1903, with Minutes of Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, livres rares, antiquarian books, first editions and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |