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HOWARD-HO AG--VALUE OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL PROGRAM 377 the lost time, was due to acute and chronic nonoccupational illnesses. The goal of industrial medicine may be stated summarily to be the improvement and mainte nance of the health of the employees so that all are at their jobs all of the business time and working at maximum efficiency. To attain this objective, the medical LOST TIME 1949 - 6092 Chart 1.--Analysis of causes of illness leading to loss of working time in 1949. DAYS LOST 200 400 600 JO0o_ ..............v.v.v.v.v...................... ...................... . C0HM0H COLD,.-, 1,051. J416) ******" ' ' ^ ^ * * * * i] CARD IO-VASCULAR - 860 (23) iioc ACUTE CASTRO-IHTESTIHAL - 350 (186) CHRONIC GASTRO-INTESTINAL - 265 ( 25) YEAR MALIGNANT TUMORS - 246 (4) 1949 CHROHiq MUSCULO-SKELETAL - 225 (21) INFECTIONS - 181 (3) CHRONIC PULMONARY - 177 (9) 111 m CHRONIC m^SWIfclNFECTIONS - 177 (10) ACUTE MUSCULO - SKELETAL - 171 (51) Chart 2.--Analysis of nonoccupational causes of illness leading to loss of working time in 1949. The numeral to the right of the listed cause represents the total number of days lost during the year and the numeral in parenthesis the number of employees attacked by the particular illness. " department must, therefore, direct its most vigorous efforts toward the nonoccupa tional group of diseases instead of concerning itself principally, as has been the custom in the past, with compensation cases.