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Industrial Hygiene Digest - 2 January, 1950 t^ie National Bureau of Standards. This publication is the result of a study of the spectral-transmissive properties of about 200 glasses Intended for use either as sun glasses or In special industrial operations where Injurious amounts of radiant energy are present. Extensive consideration is given to elimination of glare, color distortion, use of glasses for night driving, standardization of glasses for outdoor nnfl industrial purposes, gwfl the spectral-transmissive properties of glasses for vise under various types and Intensities of ultraviolet, luminous, 'and Infrared radiation. National Bureau of Standards Circular C471, Spectral Transmissive Properties and Use of ^ye-Protective Glasses can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C., at 20 cents a copy. 5 Army and Navy Medical Bulletins Unified. The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal makes Its appearance as Volume I No. 1, for January, 1950. According to the foreword,the new journal, "represents the unification of the Bulletin of the United StateB Army Medical Department, published since 1922, and the United States Naval Medical Bulletin, published since 1907." Louis Johnson, Secretary of Defense, states that the consolidation of the two bulletins, "marks another 'first' In the annala of the Armed Forces of our country." 6 AMA Plans Annual Congress cn Industrial Health. The Tenth Annual Congress an Industrial Health of the American Medical Association will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel In New York City an February 20 and 21, 1950. The Medical Society of the State of New York la co-sponsor. The program Includes a panel an: (l) The Union Plans; (2) Management Plans; (3) Private Insurance Plans; and (4) Medical Society and Blue CrosB Plans. Each discussant will present the essential principles of the type of plan or approach he represents. Another session will be given over to a discussion of essential relations between the medical, engineering and social sciences as they Jointly relate to problems of production and human relations In Indus try. Representatives from each group will present the need for cooperation and will stress the preeminent problem of the aging worker. 7 Annual Industrial Health Conference Scheduled. Chicago.... "Teamwork In Industrial Health" is the theme of the 35th annual meeting of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons and four other Industrial associations which will be held In the Sherman Hotel In Chicago, April 22-29-. - The registration during the meeting - la expected to exceed 2,000. Other organizations meeting at the same time are: The American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, the American Association of Industrial NurseB, and the American Association of Industrial Dentists. 8 Sodium Fluaracetate. - Sodium fluaracetate la a rodent poison generally known as 1080. No published papers dealing with It have appeared recently except one on Its .