Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1915, Vol. 2 The Compensation Laws, which had been in force several months when this report went to press, went into effect on January 1, 1916 with entire smoothness. By closely associating the Compensation Bureau with the Bureau of Statistics and Information, it was pos sible to arrange procedure so that the Compensation Board would be comparatively free to devote its time to its judicial functions and for drawing up rules, and not be hampered with care for the details of the enormous business to be handled. By the reason of the fact that the Inspection Bureau is largely for investigating and reducing numbers of accidents, the Bureau of Statistics and Information for collecting and tabulating accidents, and the Bureau of Compensation for making accident payments, these three Bureaus of the Depart ment are all integral parts of the Compensation system. Indeed, the whole Department is a single, inseparable, business organization carefully designed to perform this and its other work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.