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DAY OF THE WEEK.

The day of the week on which the accidents occurred is shown in Table 5.

As would naturally be expected, the smallest proportion of accidents occur on Sunday; in fact, it is in some respect surprising that the number of accidents on that day is as large as the table shows. For 1907 the grand total for all industries shows that 2.52 per cent of the accidents occurred on Sunday. Of the week days, Monday shows the highest proportion of accidents, this day having 16.94 per cent of the total. The proportion occurring on Tuesday is much less than that occurring on Monday, the proportion on Wednesday decreases still further, but on Thursday the proportion again increases and continues until Saturday, which has a proportion but slightly less than that for Monday. These proportions vary considerably from those shown by investigation of accidents in the year 1897. For the year 1897, Monday was also the day on which the highest proportion of accidents occurred, Tuesday showed a decrease, while Wednesday and Thursday had identically the same proportion, Friday had the lowest of any in the week, and Saturday showed a sharp increase over Friday, though still less than the proportion for Monday. The editors of the report suggest that the high accident rate for Monday, and also, perhaps, for Tuesday, may be caused by the holiday on Sunday; the use of alcohol and the fatigue following the Sunday holiday are suggested as the most likely causes of this higher proportion. In the following table special attention is given to the accident rates on Monday morning and Saturday afternoon.

For the separate industries, the accidents are distributed in practically the same way as shown by the total for all industries, though many of those groups show striking variations to the general rule of a lower proportion in the middle of the week with a high proportion at the beginning and end of the week. Thus, in case of the group designated as musical instruments (association 14) the highest proportion in 1907 occurs on Wednesday and Thursday with the lowest proportion on Tuesday and Saturday, while in 1897 the distribution. followed the general rule; in the case of the South German Metal Working Association (association 12) the lowest proportion occurs on Saturday and the next lowest on Monday, with the highest on Tuesday, Friday, and Thursday. These exceptions, however, only emphasize the general rule that the first day of the week and the last day of the week contain the greatest risk for the workmen. The textile associations are conspicuous in having an unusually high proportion of their accidents on Saturday, and in some of the assotions, such as the association for Alsace-Lorraine (association 24), the proportion is practically double what it was during the middle of the week.

TABLE 5.-TIME OF ACCIDENT, DAY OF WEEK: PER CENT OF PERSONS INJURED, BY DAY OF WEEK ON WHICH ACCIDENTS OCCURRED.

Source: Amtliche Nachrichten des Reichs-Versicherungsamts, 1910. I Beiheft, I Teil. Gewerbe-Unfallstatistik für das Jahr 1907, pp. 300 to 308.]

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TABLE 5.-TIME OF ACCIDENT, DAY OF WEEK: PER CENT OF PERSONS INJURED, BY DAY OF WEEK ON WHICH ACCIDENTS OCCURRED-Continued.

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