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Industrial Hygiene Digest - 2 August, mo 831 Industrial Hygiene Expanded la.Penna. Health Department. rocrctnry of Hcclth, Dr. Norris W. Vaux, announces that the Divj. elon of Industrial Hygiene, Pennsylvania Department of Health, has been made a bureau by action of the Executive Board of the Commonwealth. Creation of the Bureau vnB necessitated through the Initiation of two new activities ln'the Health Department, according to Dr. Vaux. Die new functions are Air Pollution Control and a study of environmental cancer lh Pennsylvania Industry. Both vlll be administered by the new Bureau of Industrial Hygiene which Is directed by Dr. Joseph 8hllen. Dr. Shllen said that Air Pollution Control plana special studies In communities of Pennsylvania of air pollu tion. Die cancer study will Include a statistical study and an environ mental evaluation of all male cancer deaths idilch occurred In the general population of Pennsylvania during 1948, and a determination of the relative Incidence of cancer In the various Industries of the state. -- Penna. Department of Health 832 Second Annual Symposium on Orthopedic Appliances. Mellon Institute and the University of Pittsburgh wlil hold the Second "Annual Symposium an Orthopedic Appliances at the Institute during the week of September 19, 1949. The symposium, sponsored by the Sarah Mellon Scalfe Foundation, through Its Multiple Fellowship an Orthopedic Appliances at the Institute, trill be open to Invited orthopedic physicians and surgeons as well as to selected orthopedic technologists. Die lecture staff trill include a number of nationally recognized authorities In orthopedics as well as scientists of Mellon Institute. (Editor's Bote: Members of Medical Staffs of Foundation members can secure further Information from the Foundation.) 833 Assistant Medical Director Appointed to Conn. Bureau of Industrial Hygiene. Kenneth B. Markuson, M.D., M.P.H., formerly director of the Bureau of Industrial Health, Michigan Department of Health, Joined the staff of the Connecticut State Department of Health on July 1, 1949* He assumes the post of assistant to Albert S. Cray, M.D., director of this department's bureau of Industrial hygiene. Doctor Markus on is well known In the field of Industrial hygiene. He 1s a Fellow of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, president-elect of the American Conf erence of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and president of the Michi gan Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons. Doctor Markuson received his medical degree from Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, Hebraaka, and his public health degree from Johns Hopkins Univer sity School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. 834 Sylvanla Plana In-Plant Training For Burses and Physicians. Sylvanla Electric Products Carp., Central Medical Department, under the direction of Dr. H J!. Tebrock will start Its second season of In-Plant Training Program In Industrial nursing far qualified graduate nurses. Oils program Is being conducted In cooperation with the Boston College of Nursing and has met with a great deal of success. Arrangements are being completed for a similar program far In-Plant physician training In Industrial medicine J' \ 1