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FILE NAME Insurance Industry INS DATE 1936 DOC INS050 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Medical Journal Industrial Medicine Cover Page Executive Council Includes Reps from Several Insurance Companies tie INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE Page 51 PURPOSE To disseminate accurate medical knowl- edge in reference to the diagnosis and treatment of all conditions arising out of and in the course of employment OFFICERS , Anthony Avata M. D. 110 William St. New York City Recording Secretary David Shapiro M. D. 41 East 42nd St. New York City Treasurer , J. J. Wittmer M.D. 4 Irving Place New York City JOSEPH L. Ramirez M. D. 30 Fifth Ave. New York City Executive Secretary J. J. Blackford 370 Lexington Ave. New York City Caledonia 5-0753 Robert F. Coleman Inc. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL . Da J. HUDSON Blauvelt ....... mone svven Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co. Dr. T. WALLIS DAVIS 2... Lonesome Borden Company Du Lyle EllIS suse e com cee sceTravelers Insurance Co. DR HALCYON Halstead cece oe css cecnene one tee cees wwe Globe Insurance Co. ce: Da BURKE C. Hamilton Aetna Life Insurance Co. E>. Dr. GEORGE A. Koenig 28 _ National Biscuit Co. Bog. DE WILLIS W. Lasher Employers Liability Insurance Co. + D. FREDERICK L. MOSSER .. me cece Thir Thd ird Ave. Ry & Bus Lines soe . .T r avelers Insurance Co. charges as well as given a bill of articulars so that they may be in a be ition properly to defend them- Er elves at the hearings Mental Hygiene as Applied to ; . Industrial ~ ., Prevention 10UR present methods of accident prevention are based on the me presumed need of awakening em- i. to a sense of responsibility for their own safety To do this we ae spend considerable time trying to ae are them into looking out for them- F selves Posters showing the horrible results of accidents are prominently nt played Speeches are made in : the suffering at home as a re- of of loss of income is vividly exand articles are written tell, 4 large groups of workers to do Be thie or do that to avoid dreadful sequences A number of the in- viduals for whom this propaganda Mole prepared pay complaisant atten-and then apply the lesson to gene one else Our general educa- Ee mal campaigns are no doubt leav- hee many things undone Re According to the best authorities are least 85 or 90 of all accidents 3 as their proximate causes the mental conditions of workers This stimate relegates the remainder of Mie accidents to machine or material Thres acts of God and various 4 Edward R. GRANNISS Travelers Insurance , Hartford Conn in Mental Hygiene oe habe, 1995 more or less indefinite causes The mental conditions that result in error are lack of knowledge inattention confusion and often an unwarranted sense of superiority typified by the happen typified attitude These terms of course overlap and are dependent for their existence on a number of things such as experience training worry fear fatigue exhilaration or some mental subnormality all of which tend to expose the individual worker to hazard Accident investigation and analysis usually stop at the first cause in as much as most plants are not equipped for further analysis and their executives believe it impracti cable to go into psychological causes further than to note that the man was inattentive disobedient or perhaps careless New Chrysler Laboratories THE Industrial Hygiene Laboratories of the Chrysler Corporation began operation on January 1 1936 These laboratories located at the Dodge Main Plant of the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit are devoted to the study of occupational diseases and their sources together with other agencies and conditions of work leading to industrial health hazards The Laboratories are under the direction of Dr. Stewart F. Meek as industrial hygienist with Dr. Cordon C. Harrold as chemist they were planned under the direction of Dr. Carey P. McCord who remains associated in the capacity of adviser and consultant INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE --- New Important Contribution to Medicine just off the press by W. Irving Clark M.D. and Philip Drinker Ch.E. Har- vard School of Public Health --Edited by Morris Fishbein M.D. To most general practitioners Industrial Medicine is an unknown field although much of their private practice embraces industrial accidents and industrial diseases This book is written as a handbook for the practitioner who either is going into in- dustrial medicine or who may have industrial medicine thrust upon him It assists him in understanding the con ditions under which his pa tients work his contacts with plant departments with so- cial service and insurance agencies and informs him of standard remedial and pre- ventive practice NATIONAL MEDICAL BOOK CO 119 W. 41 ST NEW YORK 280 pages Mate 34 illustrations Cloth - 3.00 net 1.M. National Medical Book Co. 119 W. 41 St. New York N. Y. Send me carriage prepaid one copy of INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE by Clark and Drinker O Enclosed find check for 3.00 O Send C.O.D. Name .. www. : Address