Health and Environmental Conditions in Brickworks

This survey is based on experience gained at three of the four brickworks of the Butterley Company Limited, in which altogether 144 persons are employed. At three of these works the 44 stiff plastic " process of manufacture is employed, but at the fourth the 44 wirecut " or 44 fully plastic" method is used. Since the workers employed are, at best, semi-skilled and tend frequently to change from one job to another, it is not possible to classify their occupations in an entirely satisfactory manner, but a rough list has been attempted as follows :