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254 Twenty-fifth National Safety Congress Tire-Chairman in Charge of Membership--Fred A. Webb, Borden-Wieland, Inc.. Chicago. Secretary--D. M. Clark. Society of Grain Elevator Superintendents of North America, Chicago, 111. .Vrtfj Letter Editor--C. W. Turning. Goddard & Hcinselman, Minneapolis, Minn. Engineering Committee Chairman--G. I- Gore. Bruce Dodson and Co., Kansas City. Mo. tteatih Cotmnitiee CAairman--Dr. Wilmer H. Schulze. Director, Bureau of Environ mental Hygiene. Health Dept- City of Baltimore, Md. Poster Committee Chairman--F. A. Hasse, Com Products Refining Co., Chicago, III. Publieity Committee Chairman--Wilbur Thomas. Hage*s. Limited, San Diego, Calif. Slides and Safety Kinks Committee Chairman--H. J. Alorjcii. Spencer Kellogg and Sons. Inc., Buffalo. NT. Y. Statistics Committee Chairman--Ray M. Seeker. Anheuser-Busch. Inc, St. Lotus, Mo. Directors-- Freo Anderson. Ady & Crowe Mercantile Co Denver, Colo. H. A. Barker, Hotel New Yorker, National Hotel Management, Inc, New York. N. Y. A. L Brown. Post Products Div.. General Foods Corm Battle Creek. Midi. Ruth E. Cade. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, Ilk R. R. Chaney. Coffee Products of America, Inc- Ltd., Los Angeles, Calif. Ray J. Culxin. Rocktvood & Co- Brooklyn. N. Y. A. R. Dean. Commander-Larahec Corp.. Minneapolis, Minn. E. E. Drews. I.ihbv. McNeill & I-ibby. Chicago. 111.. J. T. Farrell. Waldorf System. Inc. Boston. Mass. A. D. Ferrari, Bohemian Distributing Co.. Ltd- Los Angeles. Calif. Paul C. Goodnovgii. The Quaker Oats Co., Chicago, III. D. R. Grant. Beechnut Packing Co- Canajoharie. N. Y. I- O. Green. Wilson & Co- Inc. Chicago. 111. R. C. Haven. Continental Baking Co- New York. N. Y. C. W. Knowles. El Dorado Oil Mills & Fertilizer Co., El Dorado, Ark. I- R. McCasii. Hentrich Brewing Co., Seattle, Wash. W J. Mazc Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Honolulu. Hawaii. Henry J. Mixeur, The Borden Co.. New York, N. Y. I. H. Morgan, Morgan Packing Co., Austin, Ind. James L. Oliver. American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, Washington, D. C. Douglas Peabn, Walgreen Drug Stores, Chicago, III. George T. Peckham. Jr. Clinton Co- Clinton. Iowa. G. F. Pfeiffer. Moorman Manufacturing Co- Quincy, 111. C. 1- Riivs, John Morrell & Co- Ottumwa, Iowa. A. C. Schroeder. Church & Dwight Co- Syracuse. N. Y. John R. Sellers, Joseph S. Finch & Co- Schenley, Pa. G. Sibley. Jewel Tea Co.. Inc- Barrington, 111. W. W. Smith. Smith Brothers, Inc- Poughkeepsie, N. Y. W. A. Sullivan. Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.. Kansas City, Mo. Leon G. Tuiague, National Food Products Co- New Orleans, La. Lionel W. Udell. United Fruit Co., Boston. Mass. H. E. Wheeler. Jr.. Henry Heide. Inc- New York, N. Y. TUESDAY MORNING SESSION October 6, 1936 The first session of the Food Section was called to order by General Chairman C. W. Dcmpcsy. Liquid Carbonic Corp- Chicago. who presided. Chairman Deropesv welcomed the delegates and intro duced the speakers. Food Section 255 Safety and Health in Food Handling By WILMER H. SCHULZE, Phar. D. Director, Bureau of Environmental Hygiene, Baltimore City Health Department While accident prevention programs have been effective in the reduction of loss of life and limb in our industrial population, there exists another field of activity which requires the cooperative in terest of all engaged in safety work, namely, the health of the industrial worker. At present health programs in many plants have a status comparable to the safety program of some years ago. Such a state of undevelopment is only natural, however, when it is considered that bodily injuries resulting from acci dents are usually instantaneous and the cause is generally evident and corrective or preventive measures can be applied in most instances. On the other hand, injuries to health are seldom apparent within a brief period, and frequently it may be months or years before unhealthful working conditions ex hibit detectable injury to the employees* health. The time is now opportune for focusing attention upon those factors in industrial environments which have a direct or indirect effect upon the workers* health. National health and labor officials. State departments of health and labor and some municipal health departments are giving the matter of industrial health serious consideration. For a number of years the staff of the office of Industrial Hygiene and Sanita tion of the United States Public Health Service has been carrying on studies of those industrial environments which react unfavorably on the health of workers. The publication of the data pertaining to these investigations has stimulated an in creased interest on the part of health offi cials. labor departments and industrialists. The United States Public Health Service has recently completed the collection of data in the field as part of an Occupa tional Morbidity and Mortality Survey conducted on a nation wide basis. The statistical data obtainable from this survey will no doubt furnish valuable information and guidance for the future establishment and development of industrial health pro grams. During the early part of 1936 the Divi sion of Standards of the United States Department of Labor conducted the first Training Course for State Factory In spectors in Baltimore, with the coopera tion of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the assist ance of the Maryland State Accident Commission and the Baltimore City Health Department. The course consisted of a series of lectures and field inspections covering accident prevention and health protection in industry. Similar courses will be offered to other groups of factory inspectors in other sections of the country. This training of State industrial inspectors in the recognition and means of correction of accident and health hazards will no doubt increase the value of the services of factory inspectors to industry. Both State and municipal health officials are awakening to the fact that in order to guard the health of the community they cannot ignore industrial conditions. Con necticut has a well established Bureau of Occupational Diseases in the State De partment of Health. In a number of other States progress is being made in the establishment of industrial hygiene services, cither in health departments or in departments of labor. The Health De partment of St. 'Louis, with the guidance of the United States Public Health Serv ice. recently completed a survey of repre sentative industries in that city to determine the existent potential industrial health hazards. In the Baltimore City Health Depart ment a group of industrial hygiene in spectors devotes its entire time to the study of health hazards in local industrial plants. This service has been extended by the establishment of a Bureau of Occupa tional Diseases under the direction of a physician with industrial hygiene expe rience. As a result of these technical and medical service*, plant officials have wel comed visits to and studies of working conditions with subsequent discussions and recommendations in connection with any health hazards found to exist.