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Si Paso, Texas January 10,, I95S BiBUS'miAL SUBSK Flies '163.I" -2 Attar ay conversation with you on January lf 1958, the question of handling ooniiEluetrial cases try our nurse was invest!gated with her is ossjunction with Messrs. <X B Cole and 0. B, Ksag. We found that over the past five ssonths about 36$ of the cases handled by our nurse have been mnindustrial. She review of these esses did not disclose evidence of abuse by oar people j however, Mrs. Burleson was advised to let us laaesr any time that fibuse is indicated. Sse assured us that she would have done that anyway. In Dr. Curtis* letter of May 8, 1957 wherein he advised the establishment Of the position of Industrial! Stoss here, he stated that msindustrlal are be Halted to isueh emergency treatKent as is necessary, and quoted fro the Ccaajpany Policy Manual, a copy of which is attached. It is my reccsamEdAtioa that we eontime handling these eases es ye have in the jpeust until abuse is indicated, as w have had definite proof that it has reduced ab sentee!se that would have resulted from employees leaving work be cause of illness. In addition to treating nonindnstriiil cases in our First Md lac, we have had the Nurse, in a few instances, visit people who had reported in sick, as a step towards resdueing our absentee ism because of sickness. JHBCihb ccj J. D. Cole Mrs. ?. W. Burleson j-U J. B. HITCHES r1 JAN lri :93G G. B. MeCLESKE? CHEV B8 6416