Identifier: preventivemedici1917rose (find matches)
Title: Preventive medicine and hygiene
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosenau, M. J. (Milton Joseph), 1869-1946 Whipple, George Chandler, 1866-1924 Trask, John W. (John William), b. 1877 Salmon, Thomas William
Subjects: Hygiene Public Health Sanitation Military Hygiene
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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sexes, many nationalities, and are greatly influencedby home conditions and by the character of their recreation. Manyindustries, while not in themselves particularly hazardous, are renderedso through intemperance or dissipation. The statistician must becareful to take all factors into account that bear upon the subject. Someindustries are blamed for conditions affecting health that really are dueto the insanitary home conditions and bad habits of the individual. HYGIEXE AXD DISEASES OF OCCUPATION 1037 In recording the nature of a mans work it is not sufficient simply tostate that he is a laborer, mechanic, machinist, mill operator, and thelike. Such information is frequently of no more value to the studentof the diseases of occupation than the name of the person himself. Ifthe person is a blacksmith or works with heavy metals it is plain thathe works under a severe physical strain. If he is a sailor upon a sailingship we know that he is exposed to rough weather and unusually severe.
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Pig. 144.—Red Oxid of Lead and Litharge Being Mixed in the MANUFACTruRE opStorage Batteries. The workman is wearing a respirator, but should also protecthimself with long-wristed gloves. conditions, whereas if he is a sailor upon a modern passenger steamshipthe conditions of his work may be no more severe than those of the janitorsand charmen in a large office building. If he is in finance we may besure that he is subject to severe nervous strain. It is therefore not suffi-cient simply to give the name of the trade, but derailed inquiry shouldbe made into the nature of the work and the particular conditions underwhich he works. With the exception of phosphorus, lead, and mercury poisoning, little,if any investigations of value have been made in this country into thevast question of industrial poisoning. That careful study carried out 1038 HYGIEIsTE AXD DISEASES OF OCCUPATION by competent authorities is urgently needed can be seen from the follow-ing list of poisons that are in every

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