Health and environmental conditions in brickworks.

This survey is based on experience gained at threeof the four brickworks of the Butterley Company Limited, in which altogether 144 persons are employed. At three of these works the " stiff plastic" process of manufacture is employed, but at the fourth the " wirecut" or " 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: