TABLE 14.-DURATION OF DISABILITY AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER: PER CENT OF
INJURED PERSONS RECOVERING FROM INJURIES WITHIN FIVE YEARS AND LOSS OF
EARNING POWER OF THOSE STILL DISABLED, BY INDUSTRY GROUPS, 1896 TO 1907-
Continued.
DAIRYING, DISTILLING, AND STARCH (association 38).

1896.

1,028

1897

1898.

1899

1900.

1901.

1902.

1903.

1904.

1905.

1906.

1,499

1907.

16.25 31.23 36.28 38.23 31.62 12.54 4.77
1.142 20.67 27.14 33.97 38.18 33.18 12.70 3.24 2.19 51.31
1.126 22.47 29.75 33.93 38.63 33.04 10.75 3.64 2.57 50.00
1,193 19.20 28.33 36.46 40.99 33.61 9.89 4.28
1,335 17.98 31.39 37.38 41.12 30.94 11.91 3.22 2.17 48.24
1,358 24.74 34.61 39.77 45.14 29.16 10.97 3.17 1.77
1,418 23.62 33.92 41.12 47.60 28.56 9.31 2.82 1.55
1,532 22.65 32.64 42.43 46.48 30.74 10.11 2.55 1.83 45.23
1,629 25.84 38.30 46.35 51.26 27.87 8.16 2.33
1,586 25.66 37.20 45.65
26.22 38.96
1,608 31.47

2.72

51.65

10.12

10.51

11.37

1896. 1897

1898.

1899.

1900.

1901.

1902.

1903.

1904.

1905.

52 5.77 15.38 19.23 21.16 48.08 19.23 1.92 1.92 71.15
57 17.54 21.05 29.83 31.58 28.07 17.54 10.53 7.02 63.16
61 4.92 19.67 24.59 26.23 39.34 18.03 3.28 6.56
65 26.15 26.15 29.23 32.31 33.85 20.00 6.15 4.61
86 9.30 16.28 17.44 23.25 44.19
17.44 4.65
77 1.30 27.27 33.77 41.56 32.47 10.39 2.595
86 17.44 29.07 36.05 38.37 33.72 12.79 3.49
96 13.54 21.88 26.04 34.37 39.59
79 18.99 24.05 34.18 39.24 30.38
74 9.46 25.67 33.78

300 15.33 24.67 30.00 32.67 47.33 9.33
295 14.58 25.76 33.90 36.27 39.66 11.86 4.41 3.73 59.66
391 13.56 22.76 27.11 30.69 47.83 10.23 6.14
417 17.74 22.54 26.14 29.26 47.00 12.47 4.31
446 18.83 24.22 29.82 33.86 46.19 10.76 5.83
32.04 35.58 43.68 11.30 4.55
24.35 35.82 39.24 43.26 36.82 8.65 6.04 2.41 53.92
551 20.33 32.13 40.47 42.83 36.84 8.89 5.81 2.18 53.72
640 23.12 33.905 41.41 42.19 35.63 11.24 5.16 2.50 54.53
586 20.31 29.35 33.28
662 23.87 29.46
676 20.71

85048°-Bull. 92-11- -7

TABLE 14.-DURATION OF DISABILITY AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER: PER CENT OF INJURED PERSONS RECOVERING FROM INJURIES WITHIN FIVE YEARS AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER OF THOSE STILL DISABLED, BY INDUSTRY GROUPS, 1896 TO 1907Continued.

TABLE 14.-DURATION OF DISABILITY AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER: PER CENT OF
INJURED PERSONS RECOVERING FROM INJURIES WITHIN FIVE YEARS AND LOSS OF
EARNING POWER OF THOSE STILL DISABLED, BY INDUSTRY GROUPS, 1896 TO 1907-
Continued.
STREET AND SMALL. RAILROADS (association 57).

1896.

1897

1898

31.77

35.36

1899.

1,401 25.91

35. 19

37.97

1900.

1,345 24.61

32.41

35. 17

1901

1902

1,712 20.97 29.67
1,613 22.07 31.87

1903.

1904.

1905.

1,216 22.04 32.16 36.93 39.39 28.20 12.34 3.05
1,242 25.68 32.29 35.59 38.65 29.86 10.55 4.43
1,363 23.41
37.93 28.54
12.40
40.62 28.34 10.92
38.07 27.58 13.08
33.70 36.86 28.44 13.37 3.86
37.82 42.53 27.84 10.54 3.35
1,874 21.72 30.52 36.98 42.16 28.81 10.83 3.63 2.78 46.05
1,835 22.51 34.99 42.34 47.19 25.40 9.60 2.88 2.34 40.22
2,134 27.23 38.33 46.91

2.55 46.14
2.18 47.02

4.11

14.47 14.33 2.49 47.54 14.53

TABLE 14.-DURATION OF DISABILITY AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER: PER CENT OF INJURED PERSONS RECOVERING FROM INJURIES WITHIN FIVE YEARS AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER OF THOSE STILL DISABLED, BY INDUSTRY GROUPS, 1896 TO 1907— Concluded.

1896. 1897

1898.

1.397 30.28 36.44

1899.

1,527 26.20

33.86

35. 17

1900.

1.628 20.64

30. 41

34.46

1901

1,691

19.46

32.64

1902.

1,955 25. 17

33.61

1,361 26.97 35.41 49.96 44.01 28.07 10.87 4.12 2.79 45.85
1,226 25.45 42.01 41.03 42.66 30.18 11.91 2.85 2.04 46.98
42.23 45.31
27.49 11.24 3.87 2.14 44.74 9.95
40.93 29.73 13.49
2.95 50.29 8.78
35.93 35.69 11.79
2.77 53.87
34.95 39.98 31.88 11.88 3.96 2.66 50.38
40.87 45.83 28.44
12.27 3.44 3.12 47.27
42.37 47.50 28.57 10.63
45.23 50.27 26.64
47.69

329 28.27 38.60 42.25 43.47 44.99 6.07
44.44 47.37 39.47 9.65 .88 1.17 51.17
42.97 45.73 41.70 7.54 2.77 .75
37.74 43. 14 41.42 10.54 1.47 .49
45. 13 42.57 7.52 2.73
36.82

1903.

1,111

32.58

46.00 52.75

55.81

34.20

5.67 1.62

- 1904.

.45 41.94

.63 45.40

1.88

2.25

1,200

32.00 46.42 52.75

57.25

32.42

5.83 1.42

.33

40.00

2.75

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND INSURANCE: LAWS AND

BILLS, 1911.

LINDLEY D. CLARK, A. M., LL. M.

In the Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor for September, 1910, there was published a review of the conditions then existing in the movement in various States for modifications in the laws governing the recovery of damages or of compensation for injuries to employees. Since that date most of the commissions named in the article have made reports, some laws have been enacted, and the New York compulsory compensation law has been held by the court of last resort of that State to be unconstitutional. It is the purpose of the present article to notice briefly the subjects presented in the reports of the commissions, to reproduce the enacted laws and certain bills, and to discuss briefly these laws and bills and the decisions on the New York law.

REPORTS OF COMMISSIONS.

The commission of Montana is the only one of those mentioned in the September Bulletin from which no report has been received. The reports at hand will be considered in order.

ILLINOIS.

The report of the Illinois commission1 is a compact small octavo volume of 249 pages, presenting a brief record of the work of the commission; a draft of a bill; a discussion of the constitutionality of a compensation law; records of cases heard before certain courts. of the State; the record of the coroner of Cook County, in which the city of Chicago is situated; special studies of the coal mining industry, railroads, manufactories, etc., from the standpoint of hazard, and showing accident records and compensation for injuries; and other valuable statistical and economic data. The discussion as to constitutionality was made by the commission's attorney, who expressed the conviction that compulsory compensation will be generally accepted within a decade as being within the police power of the State to provide for. He recommended, however, as a concession to the present state of information and public opinion,

1 Report of the employers' liability commission of the State of Illinois, 1910.