Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-27 | Page 14 | Proper Health Programs Vital to Modern Factory System

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE I Proper Health Programs Vital I II I to Modern Factory System I I By DR MORRIS FISH FISHBEIN BEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association rind ind of Hy- Hy geis the tho Health Magazine I More rore than oo years vears have passed since a famous amouR Italian HaHnn Bernardino wrote a a. book in which ho considered particularly the theo diseases diseases dis dis- dis c eases ases that affect orl 1 workers ers In various arlous Inti Industries Ho Ifo surveyed the metal workers Ia potters painters dyers ders tanners bakers millers masons masons ma ma- sons soils barbers wrestlers and other occupations and called attention to tho time various diseases that afflicted p people because of their trades Modern j physician clans reco reconsidering na Id ering these trades tradeR find little new to add to what hat r. observed O Of course we havo o such new ew oc occupations occupations oc- oc as steamship building dye and dynamite manufacture and of which he ho could not write because the occupations simp simply sim elm p ply did not exist in his time Chem Chem- too has hns made tremendous stride in the last two centuries and there are now new chemical hazards hazards haz hnz- ards particularly particular in nature of oC toxic gases Jases of which tho the ancients did not even en dream With Hh the thc coining of or the machines and the building of the time great t N In Industries In- In moro more and moro more Industrial plants have havo seen the wisdom of ofha ha haIn having In special departments devoted to health and safety of oC tho work work- m men n The saving savins In hours of labor In p l made as compensation lot for and amid Injury and anil In more r.- r. V efficient nt work more than lion compensate compensate sate sato for an any sum th t In may b bo spent on the time health and safety depart depart- ments In one factor factory chan changes es In illumination Ilium- Ilium nation Increase tho output In an another another an- an oth other r factory the provision of oC adeQuate adequate adequate ade ade- quate safeguards to machinery r lessens les ics ics- sens sem Industrial accidents The Time provision provision pro pro- vision ision of or rest periods may increase greatly the total output In a recent survey of the tIme work of ofa ofa a It department of industrial industria medicine the Journal o of tho the American Medical Medi fedl- cal association points out four specific specific specific ways In which the time Industrial industria sur surgeon eon may be of or benefit to th the plant and arid to tho time workmen Tho The first duty luty is to tit lit even even- worker to the t type po of or employment and to the quantity of work that th Is suited to his health and his ability Furthermore ho lie must t be he able ablo to carr carry on this work without danger er eror I or Impairment to himself lf or nr his hla fel fellow ci- ci low workmen Second the Industrial industrial indus indus- trial surgeon studies the conditions In the tho plant as the they concern tho the In Individual In In- workman time the group roup and the tho employer and antI makes maks er e every ad adjustment adjustment ad- ad possible In tho tIme Interest of health and safety sach The department of Industrial medicine also educates the workers In personal hygiene and andIn andIn andin In accident prevention pre Finally the time industrial surgeon ur on makes a study of or lost through h illness through accident or for other r reasons and anti endeavors ors to save savo p I such slid for or the employer an and 1 the time b by getting at th lie cause ft h t. t