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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF DATE 1939 Mar 23 DOC IHF029 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Air Hygiene Foundation - References to Recent Literature on Industrial Diseases a~ oe a I ew # 310 Air Hygiene Foundation of America 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh Pa March 23 1939 Inc. o? ste e m t e - REFERENCES TO RECENT LITERATURE ON INDUSTRIAL DISEASES a News Items 165 OCCUPATION AND HEALTH Supplement International Labor Office Geneva 96 pp September 1938 Obtainable from International Labor Office 734 Jackson Place Washington D.C. Price 5.00 per 500 pages eonarpe: Supplements to the two volumes Occupation and Health are issued biannually The prosent work the second supplement 1938 contains eleven brochures on various subjects Abstracts of nine of the important papors are included in Si this Bulletin ay atone 166 INCREASE IN NUMBER OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE CLAIMS IN CHIO DURING 1937 Sa oe Anonymous Ohio State Med Journal 35 329 March 1939 heme The number of claims increased from 1,388 in 1936 to 1,694 in 1937 As usual RES skin diseases were responsible for a large percentage of the claims filed There was an increase of 95 claims for lead poisoning largely from 3 plants STL manufacturing automobile bodies where ground lead was used to fill cracks and STED scams in the bodies Six claims for silicosis made compensable on July 31 1937 were considered as within the provisions of the law an unstated number were classed as compensable for various reasons B Papers on Dust Dust Discases and General Industrial Hygiene 167 OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE SYMPOSIUM Northwestern University Medical School Department of Industrial Medicine Chicago Ill September 26-27 1938 Proceedings published January 1939 Price 3.00 The following items are abstracts the papers presented at the symposium which are published in one volume obtainable from the above address THE PRESENT STATUS OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL EDUCATION Carl M. Peterson The number of industrial physicians has almost doubled in the past 10 years and phases of status of the number of graduates coming in medicine is increasing unnually occupational disease education in contact with industrial In reviewing the present the medical schools it is noted that this type of instruction is on the increase THE SCOPE OF THE OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE RESEARCH PROBLEM Philip Drinker Research is needed as a guide towards regularly obtaining better statis- tics and better reporting of industrial disabilities of trial processes are ful to the workmen a not eliminated because process is prevention bused on research must all kinds Indusin some way harm- be practiced and this prevention always takes a little time to catch up with toxicology oe Ren h we a e Fences to Recent Literature - 11 es is FUNGUS INFECTION OF LUNGS SIMULATES TUBERCULOSIS CLOSELY Adelaide R. Smith Industrial Bulletin 18 15a-n6d Jyeaansutasryar1e 9s3im9ple filamentous plants of simple diox- The molds including fungi food from carbon which having no chlorophyl cannot synthosize structure it from other organisms living or dead They have wide dis- ide must obtain slightly decayed vegetable matter tribution and are found largely in decayed or individuals working in and in the dust from such material certaininsvuasrcieoputsiblpearts of the body A des- these dusts may become infocted with thom infection from fungus which cription is given of a few cases of proved pulmonary detectable in this form produces changes much the same as those in tuberculosis only by cultural methods The inference Crawn that infections of this type may be much more common than is generally suspected 208 REPORT OF THE USE OF BIOPHOTOMETER AND VITAMIN A THJEoRunAaPlY IINndIusNtDrUiSaTlRYHygieno & O.H. Schettler R.F. Bisboc and B.H. Goodenough - Toxicology 21 53-5 February 1939 to do so with workers matching whiteness of porcelain were unable For many years After many experiments to improve results had failed it was reasonable accuracy to measure the patient's ability to found possible by the use of a biophotometer with vitamin A known to see light and his response to dark adaptation Therapy of 75 be essential for good vision was begun and the result has been a decrease of matched white porcelain over a period of a per cent in number of rejections few months 209 OF THE FEET THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER SYMPOSIUM E.P. Cathcart C. Lambrinudi Lancet pp 1480-6 1938 British W.S. Creer W. Blood and H. Bradley concern industrial workers Footwear Flat is one of the troubles that most Some of the at work is much more important than that worn in leisure hours w do er fn ects of modern shoes are pointed out by the authors and remedibeescotmoingcom rroercet then are suggested It is true that the shoe manufacturers are to industrial alort to the problem and are beginning to give more cooperation medical officers ~d 210 OCCUPATIONAL CANCER L. Teleky Acta d intern Ver.f.Krebs Ver.f.Krebs 3 253-75 but ie 1938 German we industrios in which lung cancer is found or expect- The author discusses the main to the fact that lung cancer is seldom found ed The silicosis literature points silicotics The high incidencoef lung cancer among Schneeberg miners among radioactive minos is no basis for assuming that other miners are similarly en- is two and one half times as great as dangered Among metal grinders carcinoma because it irritates the in the general population Exposure to asbestos perhaps cancer -- at least the incidence is fairly high lungs may be conducive to lung cancer as well as cancor in other Exposure to chromate dust sooms to favor lung There are isolatod cases of lung cancer among generator workers among organs workers exposed to coal dust tar and tar distillatos nickel workors the and radioactive substances numbers are not large Exposure to radium emanations is very dangerous 211 DOES WORK WITH COMPRESSED AIR TOOLS RESULT IN ENDANGITIS OBLITERANS A. Fikentsch- 9 ) er Arch.f.Gewerbepath u Gewerbehyign t6h5e-79iro1n93in8dusGteryrmwahon had used pneu- The study described covered 250 wTohrekercshief signs and symptoms of ondangitis ob- matic tools from 2 to 40 years intermittent claudication literans threatened or actual gangreno absent pulosfeslimbs could not be demon- trophic disturbances alarming pains pigmentatiodnisturbances so often observed in strated in any of the subjects The circulatory of other origin workers with compressed air rivetors hammers etc. are therefore than an endangitis obliterans