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Two hundred fifty special school teachers and 414 elementary school teachers were selected for the targets in order to compare their degrees of fatigue and find what kind of relationship is between subjective fatigue. It was 30 minutes before their closing hours on April 21th, 1989 that their physical, mental and neuro-sensory symptoms. The test results are summarized as fallows: It is observed that an interrelation between subjective fatigue a shows a significantly relationship between physical and neuro-sensory symptoms in a sense of statistics, The rate of Subjective fatigue complained by the special teachers is higher than that by the elementary teachers. The complain rates in each item, checked, of special teacher are generally higher than those of the elementary teachers. It is in the mental symptom related item that there are many sub-items which show significantly difference. In the rate of complaints, by sex, both sexes of the special teathers show high ones. The complain rate of mental symptoms shown by female group from the special teacher is significantly higher (p<0.05). By age, the group in their thirties from the special teachers show the higher complain rate of mental symptoms(29.3%). However, the special teachers in their forties show the lower complain rate of physical symptoms that of the elementary teachers (p<0.05). From the view point of their working years, the special teachers below 14years and elementary teachers above 15 years in their career show high complain rates. Among those who belong to the category of 10-14 working years, the special teachers show the higher complain rate of mental symptoms than that of their counterparts. From the view point of sleeping hours in the previous night of the questionaire surveyed, among those who slept for over 7 hours, the special teachers show the higher complain rate of mental symptoms with a significantly difference. From the view point of their marital status, and existence of disease history, the special teachers show the higher complain rate of subjective fatigue. According to the above results, the special teachers generally show the higher complain rate of subjective fatigues. To prevent the possible accumulation of mental fatigue of the special teachers, ways and means to make use of leisure time, recreational facilities are necessarily provided.
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