Show Business Today Today- War plant Districts Need More Doctors Editors Editor's Edior's note The armed forces are draining oft off of O doctors doctor doctor doctorI creasing the burden and problems of tho those e physicians who remain atil as more of them are needed In war plants and war wa plant areas arras Action Writers James Marlow and George I be taken nut But ut how Business line lne the nations nation's naton's growing medical headache In two articles of which is i the first I By JAMES MARLOW and GEORGE I 1 NEW YORK Nov 20 The 20 The heart of the rising cry cy forI for I quate distribution of physicians in war plants and wa warI areas is this Keeping the workers healthy and therefore cu down absenteeism Here are some Bore estimates estimates on on what is happening in and out of war plants plants given given by Dr Victor G. G Heiser Helser medical consultant of the National Association of Manufacturers Manufacturers Manu Manu- Eleven tho thousand sand workers have been injured or killed on or off the Job every day ay since December 7 1941 Since Pearl Harbor 42 war workers have been ben 1 on or off the job Because of absence v I f workers from the job in 1942 I will wil have been a loss at ye year ye i of man days authorities put the loss as as man days days r ofa Lie a man hours 1 Illness Iness Cuts Work ork It I has been estimated that a per cent of absenteeism i's is sTd id du illness iness and only 10 per percent I accidents Absenteeism maj J due also to loafing another job domestic trouble But the over all over over-al figures a aTe are Doctors frankly worried about what lie ahead For instance J The New York physic phys C forum warned Washington au ii ies that a critical physicians in war p production was creating a situation t that t within it all al the making national calamity I Some forum form members go s 's sa surplus of medical men in th eastern states must be distil distil in the war industrial area areas areas' middle west and south 9 War Man Power Comm Commiss ss Paul McNutt a week ago t tol l Industrial Hygiene Mellon Melon institute in Pittsburg The best way to meet emergency would seem toll exercise some control over movement of physicians botland both bot and out of civilian practice more pooling of medical se S hospital facilities and nui the community 9 I ISo So far McNutt said p have been transferred t tc t communities to take left lef by the te He said many more such t fers would have to be made mad madej Meanwhile physicians conto era con erato to go into the armed services more go the problem of to care of the health of Ameron Amer on the home front mounts 4 Dr Frank Lahey former r dent of the American Medics Medica and now chief of t the and assignment div iv of the W M C said the ared armed s sices ices would need a total medical men for a leaving physic on the effective list for population plus another fore 5 physicians well wel on in ye years r Thus the disposition of p pi would be fl Seventy thousand for th t r forces of or an a ave of 13 service men under the theof theof theof of each physician f fOne thou One hundred and six si physicians for the te rest of th thian tI ian population or an 1141 civilians to be cared fo ft each physician on the hom f Thus the picture picure of the the fi fl takes shape Fewer doctor serve more people but it is it 5 nc nci if i there were a sudden drop number of doctors available health hazards remained t the s a Workers are going int areas and new jobs taking families with them or goin alone Existing community I ties are being overtaxed overtaxed i IIi Feeding Problem There is the problem of p pr feeding and proper housing housinga which can cut into the te healt the worker or his family u unit e eis is handled well wel unless he is by medical advice and atten attell aten Surveying the developing tion Dr Kingsley Roberts Roberts Roberts' medical administration nonprofit making says M I 1 We must recognize that we C dealing with a national com problem This is one mor lem which because it is isey ey body's business has been n business I Writing in Personnel Man Mac ment a a magazine Dr Rob says 9 This question of ot waste aste wastel t from absenteeism due to ills lUp in must be answered by the te fort of management and la labo health committees set up on OIl spot to cope with wih the condu condit of each situation M I There is no time for union delay action because employer terest in health healt W I nor seem paternalistic time for employers to dally daily daly is i f in trust of demands health care beyond the sc scope e present provisions |