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Show PROTECTING THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE. A Chieago paper report.? a new ;c livltj by which Ohio cities are to gain the benefit of a special training of medical men to protect the health of the people The plan as outlined follows fol-lows : The national safety council reports an affiliation with the University of Cincinnati for the purpose of carrying out a program that is unique. Thi6 program includes the establishment of an industrial medicine division at the university where medical students and graduate physicians will he given special spe-cial training not only in inousirlal medicine, hut in industrial relations, including sanitation and ail the funda mentals of safety work as well 'The school, which is already under wa, Is unusual in many re-pects, chief among which are the following: The student physicians alternately spend part of their t'me in school and part in the field among the industries of Cincinnati, Dayton and other Ohio the work for which they are being pre? I pared. The enterprise was cmceiv-d and is being financed by the industrial 'leaders of Cincinnati and the ieinlty. who have guaranteed a fund of about $40,000 annually for five yenrs. In addition to (he regular course I special courses will be given in such anbjecta as the medical. Indus, ial and safety problems tricing 'Yom the rn-I rn-I trance of women into industry, public l health and hospital management. The facilities of .he school Include ,an industrial res arch laboratory where physical conditions menacing the health of employes arising in In-Ijurfry In-Ijurfry will be brought up fo- InvastL gallon and solution. How can dus be eliminated in a certain plan'? Is this gas injurious? How can the lighting problem of .1 peculiarly arrayed factory fac-tory be solved? This plan, in the opinion of C W Price, general manager of '.he Nati, nai Safety council, promises much for oth-1 er cities. "The Cincinna'! plan grew! out of a very definite need," Mr. Price declares "Puring recent years there has been a great call for indus-trial indus-trial phvsicians, nut there w?s no in-' stitution that gave special Instruct'on in industrial medicine In the new do-, partment of industrial medicine and1 public health of the University of Cincinnati Cin-cinnati special coutses for the train-1 ing of industrial physicians and sur-peons sur-peons are now being offered. In eon I r.ect.on with the regular raed.cal j 'courses the sluden. will be -jiven in-1 6tructlon in industrial medicine, sop sanitation, occupational hazards and! diseases, labor economics, laboi conditions condi-tions and problems, indu.s'.ilal rcla 'tions, accident prevention an'.! employ-' men'. The product of this special training will he not merh ai indus-' 'trial physician, but an executive who 1 in the larger plants can ta.e enarge of' an industrial rela'ion? department thai would include the safety eng'neer, the plant physician, the employment mana ger ?nd others. The- n.en who receive! the special training offered m Cincinnati Cincin-nati also will fill a long felt want among the smaller industrial plants where conditions do not Justify the hir-1 ing of a safety engineer a nhvslclan . nd an employment manager. The Cincinnati plan pro ides for the co-operation of the National Safety council not only with the University of Cincinnati, but with the genenl ed.ica jiional system of tha'. city Tbe secre tary of the council will jrive twelve lectures lec-tures on school and public safety in ;the teachers' college of Cincinnati, so 'that the teacher in the making will be prepared to pas on such instiuc Hon to young America. Later a similar simi-lar series of lectures will be given to class made up of one or men tench jers from each public school In Clmln nati so that these in turn may acquaint ac-quaint their fellow teachers with the jlundamentals of education in accident prevention Finally a course of safety lectures isimilar to that given at the Is'-UIonal Safety council's schools for safety su-' pervisors at St. Louis, Cleveland. Pittsburg and Rochester will be given to every class in the engineering ?chool at Cincinnati. 00 |