Causes of Damage to Clothing

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Occupational Group 13: Women Agriculturists.

DAMAGE		CLOTHING AFFECTED
		Protective		Outer		Underwear		Footwear
		1		2		3		4
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
1.	Abnormal Dirt	139	37	124	34	48	13	83	22
2.	Abnormal Perspiration	49	13	59	16	81	22	57	15
3.	Abnormal Wear & Tear	293	78	298	79	155	41	359	90
4.	Burning	1	.3	1	.3	-	-	1	.3
5.	Corrosion	1	.3	1	.3	-	-	1	.3
6.	Cuts & Abrasions from Metal Swarf	1	.3	1	.3	-	-	1	.3
7.	Cuts & Abrasions from other causes	39	10	37	10	7	2	27	7
8.	Dust & Metal Fillings	2	.5	1	.3	-	-	1	.3
9.	Humidity	8	2	4	1	2	.5	2	.5
10.	Odour	14	4	13	3	5	1	7	2
11.	Oil, Grease & Soluble Oils	8	2	11	3	4	1	3	.8
12.	Weather	160	43	145	39	13	3	159	42
13.	Wetness	71	19	62	16	5	1	72	19
14.	Other damage	10	3	5	1	1	.3	8	2
	(376=100%)

Occupational Group 15: Men Agriculturists.

DAMAGE		CLOTHING AFFECTED
		Protective		Outer		Underwear		Footwear
		1		2		3		4
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
1.	Abnormal Dirt	26	32.9	34	43.0	11	13.9	28	35.4
2.	Abnormal Perspiration	6	7.6	15	19.0	14	17.7	21	26.6
3.	Abnormal Wear & Tear	47	59.5	69	87.3	21	26.6	72	91.9
4.	Burning	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5.	Corrosion	4	5.1	3	3.8	-	-	3	3.8
6.	Cuts & Abrasions from Metal Swarf	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
7.	Cuts & Abrasions from other causes	8	10.1	12	15.2	2	2.5	12	15.2
8.	Dust & Metal Fillings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9.	Humidity	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10.	Odour	3	3.8	11	13.9	2	2.5	1	1.3
11.	Oil, Grease & Soluble Oils	6	7.6	5	7.6	3	3.8	3	3.9
12.	Weather	20	25.3	21	26.6	1	1.3	26	32.9
13.	Wetness	5	6.3	2	2.5	1	1.3	5	7.6
14.	Other damage	6	7.6	11	13.9	2	2.5	3	3.8
	(79=100%)

Abnormal Dirt. From working with soil, manure, roots: cleaning cattle sheds, styes and tending animals: stoking boilers.

Abnormal Perspiration. When doing heavy farm work, working in hot-houses: feet perspire a lot in heavy boots, and sweating is excessive in summer time.

Abnormal Wear and Tear. Clothes are ripped in seed cutting and harvesting: sheep shearing and shepherding: tying, carrying and loading sacks of corn: carting coal and stoking: friction of bending and stooping when gardening: using picks, shovels. 63 and scythes: through digging and heavy field work: carrying hay on pitchforks wears shoulders: shoes are worn on rough cobbles: continual heavy washing wears clothes quickly.

Corrosion. Clothing is rotted when throwing lime, by manures and fertilizers: spraying fruit trees: clay rots clothes and boots.

Cuts and Abrasions from other sources. Due to catching on sharp edges, wires, nails, pieces of timber, ripped when hedging, by bushes, when ploughing and doing farm work in general.

Dust. When ploughing and digging and haymaking.

Odour. From cleaning out cattle-sheds, styes, hen-houses: from manure and fertilisers: from fruit spraying.

Oil, Grease and Soluble Oils. From greasing the engines of tractors, cars and other farm machinery.

Weather. Being out of doors in all weathers imposes a heavy strain on clothing and necessitates frequent changes of clothes.

Wetness. Due to splashes when cleaning out dairies and byres.

Other. Milk, fruit and vegetable stains on clothes: dust from the field gets into oil spots on clothing: horse-work in the fields is very hard-wearing on shoes.

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