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242 INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE Eliminating the 24 cases with no provisional disability rating and the 12 cases with a difference of 30 per cent or more, the corrected number of persons with increased incapacity after physical medicine treatment is 65, or 8.0 per cent of the 814 cases. Table 3.--Summary of Cases in Which Appeals Were Made to the Industrial Commission After Physical Medicine Treatment Patient Group 11 22 3 4 5 6 73 84 9 10 11 5 6 12 7 13 14 8 9 15 10 16 11 17 18 19 20 12 21 22 23 13 24 25 14 26 15 27 16 . 28 29 30 31 17 32 33 34 35 36 37 18 19 7 Av....... Case 538 167 191 1180 1906 1998 44 22 41 170 1947 0 0 1117 1965 1310 0 1859 1892 1917 1980 1995 355 1734 1928 316 1427 408 657 126 512 636 943 113 108 280 176 465 835 1337 0 0 Av....... Incapacity of Hand Before aAnd After Treatment, per Cent Before M PM After A M PM IC Difference A M PM IC In crease of IC 50 50 20 50 33.3 --30 0 --16.7 13.3 90 90 20 10.5 25 --70 --79.5 --65 5 40 40 3.5 15 4.5 --36.5 --25 --35.5 1, 75 75 20 30 20 --55 --45 --55 0 45 45 33 25 33 --12 --20 --12 0 27 27 12 7 12 --15 --20 --15 0 20 20 5 20 10 --15 0 --10 5 60 60 5.5 20 7.5 --54.5 --40 --52.5 0 90 90 50 67 60 --40 --23 --30 10 50 50 20 30 33 --30 --20 --17 13 30 30 4.5 10 6 --25.5 --20 --24 1.5 Weeks Before TreatAge ment 51 5 34 6.5 51 6 50 4 32 2 32 2 36 3 29 4 30 6 39 5 43 11 .. 15 60 33 33 40 5 5 5.5 1.5 10 10.5 10.5 2 8 7 +18 + 0.5 -- 7.5 --27 -- 3.5 -- 2.5 + 2.5 +6 -- 3.5 7 48 4.5 34 5 19 9 3 8 40 40 25 10 25 --15 --30 --15 75 75 15 16 15 --60 --60 --60 20 20 10 10 15 --10 --10 -- 5 90 20 20 10 20 --70 --10 --35 100 80 25 25 30 --75 --55 --60 0. 39 0 35 5 26 0 40 5 41 5 6 6.5 7 4 15 30 5 5 12.5 --10 --25 --10 7.5 44 7 60 60 20 60 30 --40 0 --30 10 60 10 40 30 25 10 30 --15 --20 -- 5 5 38 4 12 15 7 20 8.5 3.5 20 4 T 10 -- 3.5 --11.5 6.5 11.5 29 --3 --13 -- 3.5 6 23 3 4 50 30 8 25 23 --42 -- 5 --17 15 34 20. 67 0 30 15 --20 --37 --28.5 15 58 1.5 12 50 50 40 40 15 33 2.5 io 0 50 5 25 10 15 7.5 + 1 25 --50 20 --35 20 -- 5 --2 0 --15 --18 + 0.7 --25 --20 --4 5 25 15 10 36 36 23 43 10 10 12 10 15 + 2 0 +5 14 20 2 20 4.5 --12 0 --12.5 10 10 2.5 0 5 -- 7.5 --10 -- 5 14 14 8 14 13 -- 6 0 --i 9 20 5 2.5 10 --4 --17.5 -- 4.5 3 3 2 1 2 --1 --2 --1 ,2.5 2.5 1.5 1.5 3 -- 1 -- 1 + 0.5 # ,. 3 26 2.5, 42 2.5 29 5 58 5 27 0 54 1.5 34 8 16 3 16 8 8 4.5 6.5 4 6.5 5.5 9 9 36.6 12.3 18.5 18.1 23.0 --18.1 --17.8 5:8 39.0 6.3 35.9 18.1 --17.8 * M stands for incapacity determined by the Medical Division; PM for incapacity determined by the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; IC, for final incapacity rating. This group of workmen began physical medicine treatment about 6.5 weeks after their injuries as compared with the average of 5.2 weeks of the total. WORKMEN APPEALING TO THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION . AFTER PHYSICAL MP}ICINE TREATMENT A summary of the matter is found in table 3. The 37 workers appealing to the Industrial Commission represents 4.4 per cent of the total number. If the seven workers whose appeal did not find favor with the