Document jmO85VQpoj3jazwRGjOqGMKRp

FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF DATE 1939 Mar 23 DOC IHF029 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Air Hygiene Foundation - References to Recent Literature on Industrial Diseases # 210 Air Hygiene Foundation of America 4400 Firth Avenue | Pittsburgh Pa March 23 1939 Inc. ete get ee REFERENCES TO RECENT LITERATURE ON INDUSTRIAL DISEASES Y A News Items 165 OCCUPATION AND HEALTH Supplement International Labor Office Geneva 96 pp September 1938 Obtainable from International Lebor Office 734 Jackson Place Washington D.C. Price 5.00 per 500 pages of Supplements to the two volumes Occupation und Health are issued biannually The prosent work the second supplement 1938 contains eleven brochures on various subjects Abstracts of nine of the important papors are included in aoe : this Bulletin Saep oaelrar ree 166 INCREASE IN NUMBER OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE CLAIMS IN OHIO DURING 1937 bee Anonymous Ohio State Med Journal 35 329 March 1939 PVERN. The number of claims increased from 1,388 in 1956 to 1,694 in 1937 As usual A re skin disonses were responsible for a large percontage of the claims filed There was an increase of 95 claims for lead poisoning largely from 3 plants a manufacturing automobile bodies where ground load was used to fill cracks and TES: seams in the bodies Six claims for silicosis made compensable on July 31 1937 were considered as within the provisions of the law an unstated number rsa were classed as compensable for various reasons B Papers on Dust Dust Discases and General Industrial Hygiene 167 OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE SYMPOSIUM Northwestern University Medical School Department of Industrial Medicine Chicago Ill September 26-27 1938 Proceedings published January 1939 Price 3.00 The following items are abstractosf the papers presented at the symposium which are published in one volume obtainable from the above address THE PRESENT STATUS OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL EDUCATION Carl M. Peterson The number of industrial physicians has almost doubled in the past 10 years and phases of status of the number of graduates coming in medicine is increasing unnually occupational disease education in contact with industrial In reviewing the present the medical schools it is noted that this type of instruction is ou the increase a THE SCOPE OF THE OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE RESEARCH PROELEM Philip Drinker Research is needed as a guide towards regularly obtaining better statis- tics and batter reporting of industrial disabilities of all kinds Indus- are not eliminated because process is in some way harm- trial processes must be practiced end ful to the workmen prevention bused on research this prevention always takes a little timo to catch up with toxicology I ae ae e s 2 od a wet anes 38: arn ny Fences to Recent Literature - 11 e Le is SIMULATES TUBERCULOSIS CLOSELY Adelaide R. Smith 07 FUNGUS INFECTION OF LUNGS Industrial Bulletin 18 15-6 January 1939 of simple The molds including fungi and yeasts are simple filamentous plants diox- structure which having no chlorophyl cannot synthosize food from carbon obtain it from other organisms living or dead They have wide dis- ido must slightly decayed vegetable matter tribution and are found largely in decayed or and in the dust from such material certain susceptible individuals working in of the body A des- these dusts may become infected with thom in various parts which of a few cases of proved pulmonary infection from fungus cription is given those in tuberculosis detectable in this form produces changes much the same as of this type only by cultural methods The inference Crawn that infections may be much more common than is generally suspected 208 REPORT OF THE USE OF BIOPHOTOMETER AND VITAMIN A THJEoRunAaPlY IINndIusNtDrUiSaTlRYHygieno & O.H. Schettler R.F. Bisbee and B.H. Goodenough . Toxicology 21 53-5 February 1939 unable to do so with workers matching whiteness of porcelain were For many years After many experiments to improve results had failed it was reasonable accuracy to measure the patient's ability to found possible by the use of a biophotometer with vitamin A known to see light and his response to dark adaptation Therapy decrease of 75 essential for good vision was begun and the result has been a bpeer cent in number of rejections of matched white porcelain over a period of a few months 209 OF THE FEET THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER SYMPOSIUM E.P. Cathcart C. Lambrinudi Lancet pp 1480-6 Dec.24,1938 Dec.24,1938 British W.S. Creer W. Blood and H. Bradley industrial workers Footwear Flat is one of the troubles that most concern Some of the at work is much more important than that worn in leisure hours w do er fencts of modern shoes are pointed out by the authors and remedibeescotmoingcom ro rercet then are suggested It is true that the shoe manufacturers are to industrial alort to the problem and are beginning to give more cooperation medical officers | 210 OCCUPATIONAL CANCFR L. Telcky Acta d intern Ver.f.Krebs 3 253-75 on 1938 German cancer is found or expect- The author discusses the main industries in which lung seldom found ed The silicosis literature points to the fact that lung cancer is silicotics The high incidencoef lung cancer among Schneeberg miners among radioactive minos is no basis for assuming that other miners are similarly en- is two and one half times as great as dangered Among metal grinders carcinoma because it irritates the in the general population Exposure to asbestos perhaps cancer -- at least the incidence is fairly high lungs may bechrcoomnadtuecivdeustto slouenmsg to favor lung cancer as well as cancor in other Exposure to workers among organs There are isolated cases of lung cancer among generator distillatos nickel workers but the workers exposed to coal dust tar and tar and radioactive substances numbers are not large Exposure to radium emanations is very dangerous 211 DOES WORK WITH COMPRESSED AIR TOOLS RESULT IN ENDANGITIS OBLITERANS A. Fikentsch- er Arch.f.Gewerbepath u G2e5w0erwboerkheyrgs 9in t6h5e-79ir1on93in8dusGteryrmwahon) had used pneu- The study described covered The chief signs and symptoms of ondangitis ob- matic tools from 2 to 40 years intermittent claudication litorans threatened or actual gangreno absent pulosfeslimbs could not be demon- trophic disturbances alarming pTahienscipricgumleantotraytiodnisturbances so often observed in strated in any of the subjects therefore of other origin workors with compressed air rivetors hammers otc are than an endangitis obliterans