“…Miles, in his address to the League of Health yesterday, to show the enormous economic waste involved in the vocational misfits arising out of our present haphazard methods of fitting the youth to the job. …”

“…We are face to face with a problem that must be solved if this country is to survive the war — industrial, economic, and political — which is now being waged. …”

“…The League shall enquire into the social and industrial conditions which affect the health of the nation, and shall use its strength and means to improve the social and economic conditions of the community, working where possible with the legally constituted authorities, and with voluntary bodies with similar objects. 3. …”

“…To the voters and taxpayers of the country we have pointed out that what a government and human society does not spend on adequate housing and education and protection of its workers it pays in hundredfold amounts to Hospitals, Prisons, Workhouses, Asylums, Homes for the Feebleminded, Epileptics and Cripples, and that both from an economic and humanitarian point of view it is our duty to cut off the supply of patients 28 200/B/3/2/C693/1/71…”

“…Industrial Hygiene and Vocational Guidance Selection and Training In view of the great Labour Wastage in this country, resulting in a huge economic loss, estimated by Professor Edgar L. Collis, M.D., M.R.C.P., Preventative Medicine Chair, South Wales University, member of the Research Fatigue Board and Medical Councillor of the League, at not less than £100,000,000 annually, which loss, in his opinion, is occasioned by lack of Vocational Guidance, Selection and Training, a course of lectures was arranged by the League under the title of "The Economy of Health and the Human Side of Industry and Commerce," the syllabus of which was drawn up by Professor Collis and Professor C. …”

“…National Institute of Industrial Psychology The economic necessity for raising the standard of health of the people is ever before the minds of our Councils. …”

“…The Honorary Organiser was selected by the Medical Council to represent the League at the Congress, and in this official capacity laid before the Chairman of the Municipal Hygiene Section at the Congress the following suggestions for discussion:— (1) In the practical effort now being made to fight disease and raise the standard of health of the people. (2) As an economic measure, and as supplying an urgent need of the workers of all countries, "That the heat engendered and necessary for the burning of the refuse of cities should be utilised for the heating of water to be supplied from the main supply, and available to all householders, businesses, institutions and factories.…”

“…"Vocational Guidance, Selection and Training as a Prevention of Economic Waste." Dr. G. H. MILES, D.Sc. Assistant Director and Secretary, National Institute of Industrial Psychology. …”