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S3AIP3HV TVNOIXVN 3Hi xv aaonaoaaav ? Kc-7 0 a <2Y C Lc/'l'lef f't-'? f. I2y- </J 7 -- 73 7 XRI-STa TS ZINC a n d LEa D 0R2 PR0DUCF.R3' ASSO MIMES U OF ,D.C. Report of Welfare Department. Year ending September 30, 1930. Richard Jenkins, Welfare Director. . n'Ol 4f,an \'"'V- 8 ' ^ 9 ' laou Welfare. Organized welfare work was started in the Tr-3tatft mining district in December, 1914, and the records show a steady increase in service rendered up to the present time. The nature of this work and volume of service rendered is clearly shown in the nurses' report, which follows: (Nurses' report on separate sheet) This welfare work was started under the guidance of Dr. A .J. Lanza of the U.S. Public Health Service, and Dr. Sayers who later succeeded Dr. Lanza in the Government service, has always given it his hearty support and today is untiring in his efforts to provide and maintain facilities for the further improvement of health conditions in the mines and in the homes of our workmen. From the beginning we have had the cooperation of the Metro politan Life Insurance Company. This affiliation had been beneficial to both organizations, as the territory covered by our nurses in their welfare work brought them into direct contact with the people who purchase industrial insurance. For nurse service to these policyholders we at first received fifty cent3 per visit, later we were paid seventy-five cents and for th9 last three years we have been paid one dollar per visit, except for Post-natal cases where the s e r v i c e to th e infant is only twenty-five cent3. This branch of our work had increased steadily each year, from 240 visits in 1915 with a revenue saAIHDtfY TVNOIXVN ' 3HJ, xv aaonaoaaaa of $120.00 to 3632 visits in 1929 for which we received $$,227,75. Rendering this service to the insurance company is in no way detrimental to our welfare duties, rather it is a great aid, as it enables our.nurses to contact worthy cases not covered by insurance that hesitate to ask for assistance. January 1st, 1930, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company made this a restricted district, which means that their agents are restricted to the sale of ordinary policies, eliminating the industrial which is a class of policy including nurse service. V effect of this ruling will be a considerable diminution of the T needs of nurse service by this company and, consequently, a curtailment in our support from this sourse. Nurse service was furnished to the Picher District schools for two years ending in June of the present year. This service was appreciated by all concerned and especially by the Parent^ Teacher association, which is vary active in all things pertaining to the schools of the District, For the first school term of this service we were paid $50.00 per month and for the second year $75.00 per month. it the beginning of the present school term we were advised that owing to lacfci of funds thiB service would have to be discontinued. Our observation of the effect of efficient nurse service in public schools is convincing that there is no other channel which affords an equal ppportunity to administer in as thorough a manner to the physically deficient child, and it is to be regretted that the shildren of this consnunit are to be deprived of this service for the time being. However with the exception of physical examination in the school room our nurses will administer to the children's needs in their homes and at the schools on call of the teachers or parents. S3AIH0HV TVNOIIVN 3Hi j,v aaonaoHaaa TRACHOMA During the last four years we have been sending trachoma cases to the GoveTbient Institute at Rolla, Missouri. For the last two years negotiations have been carried on with the State and Federal Governments for an institution for treatment of this disease to be located in Ottawa County of at some point in the state easily acces sible to our mining district. Dr. C. W. Beeson^i State Health Commis- ioner of Oklahoma, had informed us that he had recently attended a conference in Washington at which it was decided not to establish any additional stationary units for this service but, instead, to have a number of mobile units available to move into any locality on request of State Authorities, temporary hospital facilities to be provided by the State. Dr. Beeson will make a request for this service and ask for additional appropriations to cover the expense, and on his suggestion we have enlisted the aid of our representatives in the State Legislature to heartily support the doctor in his efforts for additional funds. Following a request made last year, Dr. Paul D. Mossman, Surgeon in Charge of the Rolla, Missouri Trachoma Institute, made a trachoma Survey of the Picher District last March. The opportunity for free examination was announced to the public through the newspapers and printed notices were posted throughout the District. The response was very gratifying as 204 persons came to the Clinic for examination. Dr. Mossman's report of his findings fully justified our action and resulted in enlisting in the cause the hearty support of the State health officials of Oklahoma. CHARITY The condition of our industry in regard to unemployment as the winter months approached last year suggested the need of preparing for an unusually large number of calls for assistance. At our sugges tion J.H. Klinefelter, Mayor of Picher, accompanied our representative 'S3AIH0HV TONOIIVN .......... ------- -------- ---- -....... ...... .. 3Hi j,v aaonaonaan to Miami to 1 tarn from the County Commissioners to what extent they would be able to assist in providing the necessities for the unmployed during the winter. We were informed they had no funds in their charge available for such purpose, the County Charity Fund having been exhausted for some time. On receipt of this information our Directors decided to assume the responsibility, and outlined plans for financing, purchasing, and distributing food, clothing and fuel to residents of the District who were found to be in uogent need. Business firms and individuals throughout the Sri-State District y liberally contributed money, clothing, fuel and food which, added to funds from the Treasury of this organization, made possible the handling of a most serious condition in a satisfactory and creditable manner. Coal mining companies in our neighboring fields of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, cooperating with the railroads, furnished 400 tons of coal which was delivered to the homes gratis by volunteer labor under the direction of Mayor Klinefelter on orders from our nurses Food was furnished to 762 families in quantities of one week's supply, the demands ranging for from one to fifteen servings. Fivehundred thirty-two sohool children were furnished shoes on request of teachers. Hot soup, heavy in meat and vegetables, was delivered to Mineral Heights School at noon each day and meat and vegetables fur nished for soup at the Twin Schools during the most severe cold weather ever experienced in this section of the country. Just what lies ahead of us the coming winter we do not know, but we hope that conditions of last winter will not be duplicated. During the yeat this Department handles a great many miscellaneou: cases of assisting people out of difficulties, of varieties too numerou to mention in this report. S3AIH3MV TVNOIXVN I 3HJ, xv aaonaoyaaa : ./.WELFARE NURSES1 REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 1, 1930 Homes vi3ltdd . . 1127 Follow up visits.................................... 49 62 Clothing furnished ................................ 440 Drugs f u r n i s h e d . ...............................73 Typhoid vaccine given .................... * 168 Small-pox vaccine given ............................ 434 Diphtheria Toxin Anti-Toxin given . . , . 332 School children examined V ........................ 1268 Tonsillectomies. . . . . . . . . 18 Anaesthetics Given. . , 34 Patients 3ent to Veteran Hospital . . . . . 2 Patients 3snt to Rolla, Missouri to Trachoma hospital. . . . . . . . 2 Patients taken to Mercy Hospital at Kansas City M i s s o u r i . ....................7 Patients taken to Okahoma University Hosp, at Oklahoma City Okla. ......................... 3 Trachoma survey clinic held by Dr. Mossman, 204 patients examined 64 positive cases found. Twelve destitute families, representing 52 persons, were sent to relatives. Investigated and delivered in vitations to 500 children for Goodfellows Christmas dinner. S3AIH0HV 1VN0IIVN a m iv aaonaoyaaa U n i t e d S t a t e s D e p a r t m e n Y ^ ^ ^ ps^ S c e BUREAU OF MINES CO-OPERATIVE CLINI1CC ,o * 9 .0 0n- FA - PICHER, O K L A H t^ ^ December 4, 1930. Dr. R. R. Sayers, Chief Surgeon, Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. SUBJECT: Informal monthly letter. Dear Dr. Sayers: We made during the month of November 334 examinations, divided as follows: Original (first annual), men 44, women 10; re-examinations, (second or third annual), men 277, women 3. We are running about the same number of examinations each month, which is far below what we made last year, largely d\ie 1 believe to the men's having to have an order for an examination, as last year's tabulations show that approximately Jialf of the men were not employed. The number of men employed in the field remains about the same as it was last iponfch (5200), but apparently there is more evidence of unemployment in the field than there was before the cold weather, probably due to the fact that a large number of men are returning from the harvest fields. The negotiations between the Eagle Picher and Commerce Mining and Royalty companies for the purchase of the latter company by the former are continuing and it is common gossip that the sale has been completed. Yesterday auditors came into the field and were checking the Commerce properties for the Eagle Picher. Furthermore, it was part of the original plan of sale that the Eagle Picher was to take over the electric plant of the Commerce Mining and Royalty Company, and the North east Oklahoma Railroad Company, these two properties to be sold to other concerns. It was officially announced through the Missouri Pacific that they had purchased the Norheast Oklahoma Railroad for a million and a half dollars, subject to the Interstate Commerce Commission's approval, but the papers further stated that approval would be undoubtedly obtained inasmuch as the railway commission appointed for allocation of railroads had placed this line in the Missouri Pacific system and that the purchase wa3 in accordance with plans formulated by this commission. It was further stated on good authority, but has not yet been officially announced that the Empire District Electric Company (Daugherty Interests) purchased the electric plant from the Commerce Mining for the sum of two million dollars. This leaves the mines, which were to be sold to the Eagle Picher and the two subsidiaries which the Eagle Picher wishes to farm out to the companies have been sold and it looks very much as if the deal was through. It is generally rumored that the Eagle Picher will take charge January 18. S3AIH0HV TVNOIIVN ' 3HI IV aaonaoHaaH fers, informal monthly letter, Dec. 4, 1930. page 2. The consummation of this deal has brought in various rumors in regards to other companies on which the Eagle Picher has options and others on which they have not options. So far as rumors go, they have bought controlling interests in the Canaa Metals Company, the Crystal Mineral trust Company, the Foche Mining Company, and some smaller companies. They are said to have an option on the King Brand Cortez, the Golden Rod and the Rialto, and there is some talk of them obtaining the Admiralty, Howe, Demado and several other small properties that are not now operating. The outlook for the district is that by spring the Eagle Picher will control directly or indirectly everything in the field except the Interstate, St. Louis, and Vinegar Hill Bar. The Federal and the Eagle Picher already have some working alliance through, as I understand, an interlocking directorate whereby a working understanding occurs. This large consolidation inthe field in my opinion will be bad for the City of Miami for a time, but probably in the long run will be beneficial. On our work I am inclined to believe it is going to make it very much easier in securing appropriations for next year and in obtaining sufficient funds for the operators to take over the venereal section at the end of this year and ultimately to obtain the consent of this company to operate the clinic after the Government has released it. Mr. Campbell, the adjuster and legal advisor for the compensation department of the Eagle Picher originally was not sold on the idea of the clinic, but during the last year he has compiled compensation on the men physically examined by the clinic by classes over a period of two years and eighteen months; These figures show that for each lost-time accident of B class men the cost was %.85. while the lower classes show a rapid rise to something over 4300 per accident. He has promised me the tabulations and 1 will send them to you as soon as 1 obtain them, as they are extremely interesting information. As a result of this work he is thoroughly sold on the clinic and states that if the company would work only 4-class men and it cost 426 a ton to mine the ore and it sold for 4 2 6 , and mined with the present force; that by the employment of B class men only they could make a profit. He has worked out a rustling card system to become effective on the transfer of the Commerce company to them and the installation of a personnel system in his office that will give him very much closer checking facilities .on the physical condition of their men than they have had in the past. He expects to go very much deeper in the question of physical examinations and to enforce the placing of men where they will be of the least hazard from a compensation point of view in the company. He has a number of positions worked out where one-armed, one-eyed, and men with such physical handicaps can work without being a compensation liability and is going to limit the employment of such men to these positions. His plan as arranged appears to be practical and economically sound and I hope to see them put it in operation on completion of the transfer. S3AIH3HV TVNOIIVN aHi iiv aaonaoaaaa Dr.Sayers,Informal monthly letter, Dec. 4, 1930, page 3 As a result of the recent elections and the meeting of the legislatures of both Kansas and Oklahoma there is much agitation in reference to changes in compensation laws in both states. They have been holding- meetings both for the operators and the workmen in Kansas during the past week and a very lengthy questionnaire has been sent out to the employees with suggested changes in compensation laws. The operators in this district feel that all such changes are a camouflage and smoke screen for the one item mentioned at the bottom; namely, the making of industrial diseases compensable. The district has had lawyers in Topeka practically all week registering protests against such changes, but most of the thinking official. appear to believe the chances of warding off compensation for industrial diseases in both of the states is very doubtful. They may succeed in preventing the passage in one of them, but it is freely predicted that Oklahoma will pass an industrial disease law and a State Insurance law, both of which it appears that the Governor elect i3 in favor of, although he has not yet definitely committed himself. Most of the operators I have talked to recently feel that the clinic work in the district has been a life-saver to the industry and so far as I have heard there is no indication of any further trouble in securing adequate appropriations to run it. I am inclined to believe that if this law is passed in either state that we will have no trouble in passing the clinic over to them. The vault storage space for films has become so crowded until some of the films are deteriorating. During the month I made arrangements with the Bank of Hockerville to secure its vault for the next six months fox the use of the clinic and will transfer all films over two years old to that vault. This will save the construction of a vault during this depression and at the same time their vault is close enough so that if it is necessary to have one of these pictures it can be obtained in a few minutes. It is the opinion of Mr. Chambers, president of the Bank, that if the depression is not over at the end of six months that we could probably have this vault for another six months or until we are in a position to construct a vaxilt. I believe this is about the news for the month Yours respectfully CC - Dr. Lanza. Surgeon-in-Charge