Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 66-68. (Budapest, 1973)

TANULMÁNYOK - Bugyi Balázs: Az iparegészségügy kezdetei Magyarországon (1928-ig) (angol nyelven)

International Labour Office, on the subject of basic elements for regulation of child employment. The Organization, in its turn, paid full tribute to Chyzer's work, when it took his results and many of his suggestions duly into considerat­ion, in fixing a set of rules for the employment of adolescent and child labour and in drafting an international Labour Code. — Nevertheless, when a reform draft for the Trade Law was laid for discussion before the Hungarian Parlia­ment, the statements in Chyzer's report about the domestic conditions of child labour and their full confirmation in contributions by Friedrich and Varró, have been entirely disregarded and not even the slightest demand went into legislative fulfilment. For the use of future industrial workshop foremen, Chyzer also wrote a Guide of Hygiene (155 pages, with 68 illustrations), aimed at familiarizing apprentives and craftsmen with the elements of industrial health protection, the subject matter being arranged under the three headings "First Aid", "General Hygiene" and "Industrial Hygiene". The author's intention by publishing this book, with an appendix summing up the labour protection statutes and listing the items to be found in a first-aid kit, was to make the workers and foremen themselves strive for efficient conditions of health pro­tection within the margin of available facilities. XL The Hungarian Society of Legal Labour Protection gained universal acknowl­edgement owing, for the most part, to the earnestly devoted efforts of medical and sociological experts, of whose work the international organization regularly availed itself and whose results, in full or in part, it has published time and again. Associate professor Andor Máday, on account of the work he performed as leader of the Society's documentary section, was invited by the University of Neuchatel to function as professor and was appointed by the International Labour Office as chief of the documentary and information department. Recognition for the Hungarian Society's efforts expressed itself also in the decision of the Office of Labour to arrange the 5th International Congress on the subject of "industrial accidents and professional diseases" in 1928 in Buda­pest, where distinguished professor of surgery Tibor Verebélyi acted as chair ­man, secretary of the Public Welfare Ministry, associate professor György Gortvay as general secretary and where Minister of Public Welfare József Vass delivered the inauguration address. Opened on 2nd September 1928 in honour of the Congress was the Institute and Museum of Social Health, developed under a subsidy of the Rockefeller Foundation, from an establishment which had been in existence as "Social Museum" since 1901 under the management of Ákos Navratil. The collection, set up with contributions from many foreign museums of labour protection and health, presented a highly impressive display of workers welfare and accident prevention exhibits. Staged simultaneously by the National Association of

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