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Industrial Hygiene Digest - 16 11 August, lQfcp disabling and fatal pneumoconiosis. Marked changes In the lungs are, how- 'rOdf'* er> In who have lees than 20 pears exposure. The results of three autopsies and some of the findings In other vorkmen are given, together with the results of some experiments on animals. Die 4 radiological and histological findings are similar to those found In South Hales coal workers. -- Authors1 Summary 869 Three Cases of Mercurial Tremor Treated with Sodium Thlcaalate. R. Worms, Welll-Heulot and M. Tublana. Bull. Soe. med. Bop. Farls. 61t, r. t 4'* 1*78 (19**fl) French. ~* The three patients described were all electricians who made mercury lnterruptors. Their histories and symptoms were similar. The authors if 4 consider that there were three conditions In these cases: Mercurial tremor a perebellar syndrome, and an extrapyramldal syndrome (Parkinsonian tremor' all of which might be covered by the term,"mercurial encephalopathy." The mercury Is oxidized when In contact vlth the air and can enter the body I: either through the lungs or through the digestive system. Symptoms are I likely to occur years after Ingestion. Sodium thlanalate Is recommended 4, as a treatment rather than BAD becausp of the much higher toxicity of the latter. One patient Improved greatly after treatment vlth atropine. $ -- Brit. J. Ind. Med. 870 Chronic Disease as an Industrial Hygiene Problem. C.D. Selby. Am. J. Public Health jS9, 59H-6oi (Hay, l9<*9). This paper reports briefly on the use of vital statistics In Indus trial health administration In practice, especially In preventive medicine as a branch of industrial medicine. Industrial vital statistics should in clude death rates and non-occupational disability rates of the plant popu lation, as veil as the usual Information on occupational Injuries and diseases.' The author's company (General Motors) has followed that plan for several years. When disabilities from a particular disease, or group of diseases, are high special efforts are made to assist employees in the prevention aiul control of those diseases. In the past year, diseases of the organs of movement--rheumatlsm, myalgia, arthritis, and neuritis vere especially prevalent among men, and diseases of the nervous system among vamen. These diseases should be given special consideration in the Indus trial medical program. 871 The Functions of Industrial Hygiene and Their Relationship to Industrial Dentistry^ C.O. Sappington. Ind. Med, and 3urg. 16, 3*+7-3^9 (Aug. 19^9) I The author believes that,"the final Justification for Industrial dentistry 1b to be found In checking losses (of time and money) due to nan-occupational disease, because of the fact that the greatest losses In Industry are due to non-occupatlonal diseases." The outline of Schour and Sarnat on "Oral Manifestations of Occupational Diseases Accord t ing to the Etlologlc Agent" is reproduced. However there Is little evi dence that this material has been applied to the practice of Industrial dentistry. An outline used by Loskot for examinations in industrial den: if & try Is endorsed.