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Interestingly enough, during the depths Of the depression in '933, the first Industrial nursing manual written by Violet H. Hodgson a&de its appearance. i In 1SJ39, as things began to look a little rosier, the Kellogg jlant in Rochester, Hew York, was purchased by Brake Shoe, not because we T&nted to get into the air compressor business, but in order to round out ;ur metal-working facilities by the addition of a light, accurate machine shop. i Our Medical Department began to assume real stature in 1941 when jr . Hamlin, decided to "hang out his shingle" with Brake Shoe by becoming j'uf first Medieval Director. Also in that same year. Miss Mathews joined the company as nurse at Amsco, Chicago Heights. We think it's grand that ioth of them ar!e with us today. I In the same year, the TJ.S. Public Health Service appointed for he first time :an Industrial nursing consultant to Its Division of Industrial iygiene, now kn'own as the Division of Occupational Health, tp work in an advisory capacity with State departments of health in developing State and Local industrial nursing consultation services. I In 1942, the American Association of Industrial Nurses was organ ized at a meeting in Philadelphia. Also, | that same year. Brake Shoe put Its medical program "on the .-oad," so to speak., by acquiring a portable, knockdown X-ray unit which -raveled from plant'to plant in a station wagon. While a definite for ward step in our health program, the unit was not too efficiently and It ras an awfully tough job for .the technician. It wasn't many years before ?e made a change. By 1943, the number of industrial nurses had grown to over ,2,800? and Brake Shoe, keeping pace, added to the family, Electro-Alloys Corporation at Elyria, Ohio, for the production of high alloy castings. A year later, in 1944, we held our first nurses' conference In Jhicago which was attended by our 13 nurses, our superintendent of nurses j vnd, of course. Dr. Hamlin and his staff. As a result of a process developed by the Metallurgical Research ,aboratories for making iron castings dimensionally accurate and with a mooth finish, a small foundry In Rochester, N.Y., was purchased to pro" uce these castings on a commercial scale. Thus, in 1946, our most recent perating division was formed--Engineered Castings. j In 194:8, we acquired the mobile X-ray bus which is still in oper ation. So far as we have been able to ascertain. Brake Shoe wa3 the first ndustrial company to acquire such a unit. In that same year, we held our econd nurses' cpnference, this time at Niagara Palls, New York, with 27 urses in attendance, and with Dr. Hamlin again presiding. World War II, and more recently the Korean situation, provided urther stimulus! for the expansion of both industrial nursing and Brake hoe. Today there are reported to be 16,000 registered nurses employed j industry. In]Brake Shoe, we have 40 nurses serving 47 of our 57 plants. 68 SPNY 000198