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5. Automobile Associations
6. Safety Organizations.

Character of Health Liabilities.

1. Accident a4. One of the enormous costs.of our modern machine age
has been the frightful toll of accidents. Our record in America
during the past 50 years is-not one of which we can be proud,
This problem has been discussed in Course 151.

2. Sickness, We need to repeat here the burden of our sickness rates
that causes over 2% of our wage earners to be constantly too ill
to be at their employment. _

3. Economic cost of sickness and accidents. The enormous estimated cost
of two billion dollars is what we pay annually for failure to pro-
vide and enforce proper defensive hygiene programs.

 

References: Kober and Hayhurst - Industrial Health, Chaps, 5 and stn
i Dublin, L. J.-- Health and Wealth.
Rosenau, M. 1.:- Preventive Medicine, Section 14.
Lauck and Sydenstricker - Conditions of Labor in American
: Industries.
Bossard, Jo He Le ~ The Problems of Social Well-Being, Chaps.
1920. ;

 

Occupat ional Environment

 

The influence of the environment of the factory, store, or office upon the
health of the worker has been demonstrated beyond any dobt,. These influences
may be classified as: {a} direct - such as industrial poisons, and {(b) indirect
such as the standards of sanitation.

1, Direct. The problems of chemical poisos remain an important
factor in the health of workers as was pointed out in Course 151.

Le tia Tett.

a. Water supply, both for washing and drinking purposes.
bs Sewage disposal, adequacy and efficiency.

c. Lighting.

d. Heating and ventilation.

e. Rest and lunch rooms.

Personal Hygiese of the Worker

 

The state of health of the worker is largely conditioned by his own health
habits, Any worthwhile occurmtional hygiene program will give cons iderat ion
to the state of health knowledge and health practices of the group. Such a
progrem should be made available for the group through a proper co-operative
plan. It should include:

1. Periodic health examination. A careful, scientific health exam-
ination is the only sound basis for e personal hygiene program.
At the present time, it is required in many factories for the
primary purpose of rejecting unsatisfactory individmals. The more