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I-H-F IN 1947 JOHN F. McMAHON Mm$m9 Director, bdastrUJ Hygiene Foundation What has Industrial Hygiene Foundation done during the past year? The following are some partial answers to that question: At the first meeting of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, on Decem ber 16. 1935. this organization was launched with 23 member companies and associations. As of today, there are 349 members. Twenty-two companies and associations have affiliated thus far this year. They are: Ameriran ('an Company Anthracite Institute tlla* l'idrr Company \u-im Motor Cropan> (England) rurihle Steel Company Frdrral-Mogul Corporation Fire>ione Tire & Rubber Co. Kurd Motor Company General Ceramics & Steatite Co. General Electric Company Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Inland Steel Company National Ass'n Fan Manufacturers National Pulverizing Company National Steel Corporation National Supply Company New Jersey Pulverizing Company Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. Sharon Steel Corporation Sun Oil Company Sun Sand Company Sylvania Electric Products Co. Actually, the number of new members is 54 inasmuch as one of the organizations is the Anthracite Institute, which has taken out a multiple membership covering its 32 member companies. There are now 103 special subscribers--governmental agencies, private institutions, etc. Field Work Field work continued to increase in a satisfactory manner and involved studies in approximately 70 different plants. This work will be descril>ed by Mr. Hatch, the Foundation's Research Director. In an engineering survey for the poxtery industry, directed by Mr. Hemeon, Head Engineer, the Foundation collaborated with the U.S. Potters Association to hold a Pottery Dust Control Clinic here in Mellon Institute on October 13. Sixteen com panies sent 31 representatives to this all-day conference. 4 Conferences Conferences are proving a practical measure for increasing Foundation services to member companies. A Medical Conference, an Engineering Conference, and a Conference for Attorneys and Compensation Officials were held here yesterday. Tomorrow there will be a conference for research directors, chemists, industrial hygienists and toxicologists. These closed sessions, limited to member firms in mining and manufacturing, draw together specialists, with similar interests and problems, from all types of heavy industry and so serve as valuable vehicles for the exchange of infor mation and experience. But already, some of these sessions are beginning to exceed conference size. In the year ahead the Foundation hopes to sponsor several conferences for specific industries, possibly for engineers in the steel industry or for physicians associated with the aslwstos industry, etc. Publications "Health in Industry," the Transactions of our last annual meeting, was issued early in the year. Yesterday the printer delivered two new bulletins, "Air-Conditioned Crane Cubs," a publication in our Engineering Series, and "Industrial Air Sampling and Analysis," a handbook for plant chemists, and the first bulletin in our new Chemical and Toxicological Series. In mid-year the Legal Committee issued a short analysis of Occupa tional Disease Compensation Statutes and Developments in the 1947 Sessions of the State Legislatures, as well as a memorandum on sickness insurance. More recently the Foundation released a comprehensive digest of the impor tant Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry. Meanwhile, members of the Foundation staff published a number of papers in appropriate jour nals. Foundation publications for the year are on display in the lobby. The Staff The Foundation's staff is now composed of 10 people, seven men, and three girls in the general office. An engineer was added this year and early in the coming year we hope to appoint a laboratory assistant who will also help with the monthly Industrial Hygiene Digest. The staff now includes a Research Director, a Medical Director, a Head Engineer, together with other engineers and chemists. Member companies can regard these special ists as advisory members of their own staffs and can call upon them accordingly. We are glad to announce the establishment of an x-ray panel, under the auspices of the Foundation's Medical Committee, to which member com panies may refer questionable chest x-rays. You may obtain details from Dr. Walmer, our Medical Director. 5