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I I I I Interestingly enough* during the depths of the depression in te firsi industrial nursing manual Witten by Violet B. Hodgson i appearance. In 1939* as things began to look a little rosier* the Kellogg \ Rochester, Her York, was purchased by Brake Shoe, not. because we bo get into the air compressor business, but in order to round out al-working facilities by the addition of a light, accurate machine Our Medical Department began to assume real stature in 1941 -when lin decided to "hang out his shingle with Brake Shoe by becoming st Medidal Director. Also in that same year, Mias Mathews Joined pony as Inurse at Amsco, Chicago Heights. We think it's grand that them ar!e with us today. .I In the same year* the TT.S. Publio Health Service appointed for st'time 'an industrial nursing consultant to its Division of Industrial i, now knjown as the Division of Occupational Health* tp work in an 7 capacity with State departments of health in developing State and .ndustrial nursing consultation services. In 1942, the American Association of Industrial Nurses was organa meeting in Philadelphia. Also, that same year, Brake Shoe put its medical program "on the so to speak, by acquiring a portable* knockdown X-ray unit which id from plant"to plant in a station wagon. While a definite for;ep in our health program* the unit was not too efficiently and it awfully tough job for ,the technician. It wasn't many years before i a change. By 1943, the number of industrial nurses had grown to over and Bra&e Shoe, keeping pace, added to the family, Electro-Alloys .tion at Elyria, Ohio, for the production of high alloy castings. . A .yeaj* later, in 1944, we held our first nurses' conference in which was attended by our 13 nurses, our superintendent of nurses; course, iDr. Hamlin and bis staff. As a result of a process developed by the Metallurgical Researoh ories for making iron castings dimensionally accurate and with a finish, a. small foundry in Rochester, R.Y., was purchased to pro?se castlings on a commercial scale. Thus, in 1946, our most recent ig division was formed--Engineered Castings, I' In 194<0, we acquired the mobile X-ray bus whioh is still in operSo far ab we have been able to ascertain, Brake Shoe was the first -ftl company to acquire such a unit. In that same year, we held our iurses' conference, this time at Niagara Ralls, Hew York, with 27 n attendance, and with Dr. Hamlin again presiding, t World War II, and more recently the Korean situation, provided stimulus! for the expansion of both Industrial nursing snd Brake oday there are reported to be 16,000 registered nurBes employed try. In]Brake Shoe, we have 40 nurses serving 47 of our 57 plants, 68 i i SPNY 000198