Show Industries Spend Millions Each Year Y ar To Preserve Health of Their Free Medical Service Keeps Efficient arid and Free From Worry Vorry Some Feed Under Under- Undernourished Undernourished Undernourished nourished in Addition to First Aid Hy fly HARDEN RDE X corF III I ot or The rhe E Copyright 1927 1227 Consolidated Pres Association WAShINGTON Jan A 22 story ot or millions of or dollars donars spent annually by American industries to preserve the health ot oC o theIr with resulting Increased reduced labor nd smaller compensation pay pa- puy- puy payments ments for minor accidents Is lafound found In figures made this week at the department nt of oC labor The question of oC o philanthropy may enter Into tome some or of o this work that hat of ot social service figures uree largely In much ot or It but after arter all au Industry has ha found round that It is Ie sound business to gee see to It that the health of ot Its Is maintained FREE flEE MEDICAL fJ SERVICE Not only are thom them them- salves given the benefits of oC tree free medical and surgical surg-ical treatment In hundreds of oC Instances but In many cases company y health beaith service ice is III 1 extended to families of o workers for a man whose mind i la III weighed down n by wory over Illness at home not only oDly li is an but frequently may be- be become become be become come a menace to himself and others through thoughtless hand hand- handling line hand ling of ot machinery Prevention Is better than curse has hae been adopt adopt- adopted adopted adopted ed as a slogan by many corpora corpora- corporations corporations lions corpora A study of medical service for tor Industrial has hu just been completed by the bureau of oC labor statistics and it is 15 made to together to- to together together gether with Ith comparisons with II a sImilar study stud by the same agency 10 years ears ago ngo Of or corporation Included in the surveys were found to be carrying on person person- personnel personnel nel nd work of this nature and of these are listed In the report IlS as providing medical service among nearly two million em- em em PROGRESS DE lUDE Demonstrating the which has been mado made In the last decade In the quality of service rendered Is the tact fact that of the nS plants Included In the 1916 study as having some sort of oC o pro pro- provision provision pro provision vision for treatment of only had anything beyond first aid equipment while In the present study of ot the com corn companies companies panic which provide medical service had ha one or more treatment rooms and only 34 U had the limited first aid equipment The extent to which this type of service Is being carried is Illus Illustrated thus thus- by the case of ot one corpora corpora- corporation corporation tion Lion operating two great plants and employing approximately 17 17 workers which extends free medical and surgical attention for tor all purposes to its and members of their families and re- re retains re retains 21 23 2 physicians and surgeons 60 nurses nurse and 60 other attendants and which last year ear expended for this work ork FEED UNDERNOURISHED ED Many lany corporations now are conducting physical ot of applicants for tor employment not so much for tor the purpose of oC re- re rejecting re rejecting those suffering from minor aliments ailments but with Ith the object ot of discovering such troubles and cor correcting cor- cor correcting correcting them through systematic treatment If it the tho applicant be placed placed placed ed on the payroll Some com corn companies companies panics have classes of ot malnutrition malnutrition malnutrition tion and systematically teed feed such auch employee under proper super super- supervision supervision vision Islon It was found in this survey sUr that thata a number of o American corpora corpora- corporations corporations corporations not only require entrance ex- ex ex by applicants for tor em employment em- em but further require em em- em ploos to undergo a I a physical ex examination ex- ex examination at least once nee a year ear And a remarkable part of ot these data Is that this close supervision ot of the health of o workers Is not confined to those whose occupations occupations occupations arc are hazardous Business ap- ap ap apparently has learned Its lis lesson lesIon that thata a man to be an efficient worker must possess good health TEST VENTILATION L Among the methods of con con- constructive constructive con constructive health work followed b by some corporations corporation is that of o a adaily dally daily checkup by means moans of o a spot map showing cases ot of o sickness In Inthe Inthe inthe the different departments A large number of cases of ot headache in any single lIngle department causes ac action ac- ac action action tion to remedy ventilation condi conell- conditions lions or survey re-survey the lighting system tern tem In the event of ot contagious diseases and anel In cases o of tonsillitis Ia grippe and other acute mala mala- maladies mala- mala maladies maladies dies preventive treatment Is given workers closely associated with such cases casos The disclose that In some cases where general medical treatment Is provided a small tee fee Is charged all employee monthly to help defray the expense but In Inthe inthe Inthe the majority of ot cases the entire expense is borne by the corpora corpora- corporation corporation tion flon even when hen hen medical service Is extended to members of oC o tho the lam Cam CamIlles fam families Illes of ot the MUST REPORT INJURIES I In order to preserve the tho health of workers many corporations are enforcing rigid regulations For Instance severe penalties are Imposed by some companies upon workers who tall fall to report to tile the medical center cases caBes of or slight cutsor cuts cutsor cutsor or who attempt to remove from their owne own on e eyes es or from the eye ce ofellow of fellow workers foreign objects which may ma lodge there GROUP I INSURANCE E Group insurance for tor the premiums paid by b the employers has more than doubled In the tho last years five five years In the United States but the constructive work along health lines that Is attested by the scores of o hospitals and the hundreds of physicians Including specIalists and nurses maintained by American Industry arc re less known well known factors In a movement which has reached great proportions proportions proportions On |