Mechanized Unit Reporting

Although fifteen years have elapsed since the Compensation Unit Statistical Plan last served as the subject of a paper presented before this Society, the historical events of the interval may be summarized in a very few words. The essential features of the original plan have not been modified. Wartime personnel shortages in the offices of the carriers and the statistical agencies and the necessity for practicing economy have trimmed from the plan several items of minor importance and have reduced the number of successive reportings and of individual case reports to a minimum. Whereas some of these changes were inaugurated as temporary retrenchments, it is not unlikely that they may assume permanence as the ability to get along satisfactorily on the curtailed basis is demonstrated in practice.