Manual Of Industrial Hygiene and Medical Service in War Industries [antikvár]

FOREWORD The urgent demand for doctors and engineers in the military forces has served to deplete industry's pool of experienced industrial physicians, industrial engineers, and industrial hygienists. This book is therefore intended not only as a source of information for industrial physicians who must meet the changed conditions in industries converted to war purposes, but as a guide for those who patriotically volunteer to take the places of industrial physicians who have gone into the service. I believe the book is sufficiently complete to accomplish these ends. There are about 17 million workers in the war industries, and their number is steadily increasing. Consequently, they comprise a substantial section of the population, whose health is of immeasurable importance to the war effort. For the protection of their health and for the reduction of sickness absenteeism, which interferes so greatly with production, these workers depend upon an equally substantial proportion of the available civilian physicians of the United States. It is hoped that this book will obtain a wide reading among all who have to deal in any way whatever with the health problems of war workers, and that it will arouse an awareness among them of the opportunities for usefulness in the production of war material. In behalf of the Subcommittee on Industrial Health and Medicine, I wish to thank the Health and Medical Committee for making this important book possible; and also, Dr. James G. Townsend, Chief of Division of Industrial Hygiene, National Institute of Health, United States Public Health Service; the members of his staff; and the other contributors, for their excellent work. C. D. Selby, M.D., Chairman Committee on Industrial Medicine National Research Council