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March 9, 1959 Dr. ClydO M JWrry, Associate Director Institute of Agricultural Siedicine fitato University of Icwa College of Medicine Iowa City, Iowa. ' fear Clyde: I am sorry it. has not been possible for ,ao to reply sooner to your letter of February 6th, after jay extreme haste in enlisting your help on ray team. 'There have been other gobs to do however, and chose have given me no respite. Indeed it in only because X cannot delay .longer that I am dropping another job, unfinished but overdue, fco fulfill ray obligation to you. .?' A i <> ' #. -V' v:* r> .';*>.*.> 'v v 't ,V v hi- I shall be as brief and as much to the point ae possible u both your /-.v behalf and my own. I shall put you on the program first in.an effort : to put clearly before the group what we (you and I, at least,) mean by ;- ^ - industrial hygiene as a combined professional discipline, not fragmented - into a series of little techniques. By so doing I Lope io bagla fay ?; ostaci! suing- that it is not a luxury in industry, but a sheer necessity- in the conduct of the day's work; not to paliate, to propitiate, to ,. express gooa will (although it should dc this automatically and #s a . by-product of good human relationships), but to protect our people >-vr.' / ' " I v~ against the hazards and the personal insecurities of aOder technologic- . industrial life, so far as possible, regardless of their position in the->< industrial organisation. As you have indicated the disciplines of ---a >*,. industrial hygiene,. I hope you will emphasise their function, but also: - -.. *v,v make clear (for it will not be clear otherwise) who are the professional - people who must work together to combine each others abilities and to make - SA.V1'- up for each other's shortcomings. .- ,. - ` :-'h 'A: In short, I want this to be th genuino article, and not a spurious >.** '**+ * professional front for a peace-making function, as directed toward the,,. amelioration of labor union-management relations, or a goodwill - cultivating^-?*** function in ths area of industrial relations, but a straightforward deallng^a.iwi>wi with the health of people threatened by the environment in which they I advise you to stay out of the problems of the home and family. It iStruei^fo^w^ that they cannot be avoided entirely, nor should they be, but they jausti be , , - led into the hands of persons outside the industrial organization, otherwise we physicians will bs intruding into the field of private raedieali,,^^ practice. This we cannot do at present for several very good reasons, should not take it on as a responsibility to be borne, although we understand it, >-* 0005706 Dr. Clyde M. Berry -(2)- March 2, 1959 Now as to the peper to be provided,'if possible, and the time to be taken on a less formal and more satisfactory presentation. I hope you can paovide-v';:.?; a paper for publication in the proceedings, at least. I welcome yoir speakin{^.s^.-a& rather than reading. We have, altogether two hours - 3.15 to 5.15 p Wednesday, March IS. I hare asked two other persons to speak and I to introcuce the subject (with a few well chosen - I hope * words) and-AClase*^^^ the talks with a brief summary. I went at least half an" hour for'questionsiHifeift^sssi onci discussion from the floor. X should prefer having a little' no further time is available, unless the group wishes to stay longer, until 5.30 p.m. This means that the four of us have about SO minutes if we-^Wi}sS28B|5 start on time and everything gees smoothly. I shall'need two minutes to start off, arid fifteen minutes to end the talks with a suwnary. This leave*:.*.*'***; almost twenty-five minutes for each of the other speakers. Your talk t h e n ; . ^ ^ ^ ^ should be just s trifle less than twenty-five rinutes lon?>. Aaoraer a>au on the panel will "bo Dr. Robert L. Kalin of the Institute Social Research, who vail speak primarily on the attitude*'of management toward 'industrial'health services, and the value which a>aaagcmcnt attributen*-*-?>ww to them, as the result of an investigation made by hiseself and his colleagueaw-^ on these matters in 1850'- 1257. The health services which h envisions are largely those provided by doctor'and nurse, and are not as you and.,1-.view- them. It is this situation which makes me feel the absolute necessity of; "'applying the whole pattern of industrial hygiene in environmental and.medical as well as to human relation aspects, so that we shall be talking about the right things; Thus I do not want you to talk of the job of the engineer,-but,> * 4 that of theindustrial hygiene team. I can supply what may b e 'needed,;in;.,--; *.*. ***#, addition, with respect to certain'specific aeiieal techniques and f u n c t i o n s #. I ex p ect t h at when you have finished, l i t t l e mill n eed t o he .dried, except- yerhaps by way of emphasis. ; The other member of our panel will be Ah*. Jteuley P. P^Iis.-.er, Vice President,- Occupational- Health Service, Inc.'New 'York' City, anti Consultant to Provident . v. life and Casualty Insurance Company, New York City. So is interested in;- i h e ^ w ^ measures - chiefly those of' environmental control, but also those of dlagnoslu<3$3u*& and therapy of industrial hygiene that limit casualties of various He comes highly recommended to me as a competent and sound 'man, humanly; speakiagj in this field, and I believe he'will show that industrial hyglene^M***;^ pays dividends in terms of costs, without holding that that is the main purpoaesv^^ or goal of this professional function. tu- tti is the story, and I leave it to yu^ with my sincere thanks and my full 4 confidence in your efforts; / ' ' 11"'/' '' ....... - Sincerely yours, RAK:ss Robert a . Iteho, M.D. k 'r j nA ifv ITty/.m O i (/7