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I She founders of industrial nursing got the Juop on the founders :e Shoe by fourteen years ' In 1888, a nurse by the name of Hiss rnlder (jjer name would have made Kr ideal for Brake Shoe*) was id by coal mines in Drifton, Pa., to visit the homes of employees promote|their general health.and welfare* Seven years later, the ; Marble Company employed a nurse for home visiting. She must have iremendous amount of energy and.capacity for work, beoause it was " her that she also taught school and "delivered babies in the com- In 1897, John Wanamaker Company of New Y0rk employed a nurse to their sick employees. It is very interesting to note that in all 3f these early instances the nurse was employed for servioe in the ather thin in the mine or the plant. I will refer again to this a little later. In 1902, The American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company came into as the result of the consolidation of four companies which were cdently Engaged in the manufacture of brake shoes. Of these four &1 plantfj, two are still today part of the Brake Shoe family; , Hew Jersey, and Amsco, Chicago Heights, Illinois, In is|09, what appears to have been an Important advancement in rial nursing took place, The Metropolitan Ufa Insurance Company uted a visiting Nurse Service for its policy holders; and, almost rently, tihe Visiting Nurse Association introduced nursing service in rial plants. i* Brake! Shoe, a year later, in 1910, acquired the American Manganese Company; and, in 1913, the Southern Wheel Company was added. Meanwhile, in 1911, the various state legislatures began to Workmen's! Compensation laws. This, of course, made it important dustry tOi put into effect programs for the treatment of occupational ea. A still more important impetus came along in 1914 in the form Id War 1.1 As to be expected, demands on industry for production vital need for conserving manpower resulted in a marked advancement ustrial nursing. For example, in 1914, prior to the United States' to the war, records show that .only`60 firms in this oountry had dal'nursing servioe. By 1918, 'this.had increased to 871' firms '.'ng' 1,213] graduate nurses." Incidentally,`it was during that period, ' be exact, that Brake Shoe's first nurse (a practical nurse, I might b employbd, She was with us until 1935, However,-our real nursing . did notj oommence until 1941. The period of World War I was. for Brake Shoe one of great proi activity; and our program of expansion through acquisition of companies, and other products was at a standstill until 1920 when ihased the Ajax Forge Company; and the forge end of the business what is now our American Forge Division, In 1922, the traokwork's of the! Ajax Forge Cojqiany was combined with Bamapo Iron Works . what isinow our Bamapo Ajax Division, Also in 1922, the first industrial section was formed in the 1 Organization of Fublic Health Nursing (now the. National League sing), When, in 1926, this organization first prepared a Manual io Health Nursing, standards, guides, and procedures for the .on of industrial nursing In public health nursing agencies were d. i v l I I 1I r. i i ( t .. } 1 spNY 000196 I< i I