INDUSTRIAL AND PERSONAL HYGIENE BY GEORGE M. KOBER, M. D., LL.D. Chairman of the Committee on Social Betterment of the President's Homes A REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL BETTERMENT PUBLISHED BY THE PRESIDENT'S HOMES COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 1908 The President's Homes Commission, Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt President. GENERAL GEO. M. STERNBERG Secretary GEORGE M. KOBER Assistant Secretary H. C. MACATEE Treasurer JOHN B. SLEMAN, JR. Statistician GUSTAVUS A. WEBER Executive Secretary CHARLES F. WELLER Executive Committee GEO. M. STERNBERG, Chairman GEO. M. KOBER WM. H. BALDWIN FREDERICK L. SIDDONS S. W. WOODWARD MISS MABEL T. BOARDMAN Social Betterment Committee GEO. M. KOBER, Chairman JAMES B. REYNOLDS Wм. F. DOWNEY WHITEFIELD MCKINLAY EMMETT L. ADAMS MRS. THOMAS T. GAFF MISS MABEL T. BOARDMAN TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I-INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE.. Introduction Occupations and Mortality. Morbidity and Mortality of Wage-Earners.. Indoor Occupations Occupations Involving Exposure to Irritating Dust. Metallic and Mineral Dust.. Vegetable Dust Textile Industries Animal Dust Occupations Involving Exposure to Infective Matter in Dust. Rag, Paper, Wool and Hair Industry...... The Lead Industry in Massachusetts..... Occupations Involving Exposure to Poisonous Dust-Lead Dust.. Printers, Type Founders and Typesetters. 35 Arsenical Dust 39 Occupations Involving Exposure to Irritating or Poisonous Gases or Vapors. 40 Occupations Involving Exposure to Extremes of Heat, Sudden Changes, and Abnormal Atmospheric Pressure Caisson Disease ... Occupations Involving Constrained Attitudes.... Occupations Involving Over Exercise of Parts of the Body. Occupations Involving Exposure to Machinery, etc... Coal Mining Railway Service Railway Accidents Accidents and Injuries 48 49 49 49 49 50 50 51 52 52 53 54 54 55 56 59 60 61 63 64 68 Infant Mortality in Relation to the Occupation of Women.. Occupations Involving the Inhalation of Organic Gases and Vapors.. Special Measures for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Wage-Earners. 71 Measures for the Protection of Wage-Earners..... 72 Sanitation of Workshops and Quarters for Employees. 73 Cubic Air-Space and Amount of Fresh Air per Hour. Permanent Expositions Devoted to Industrial and Social Betterment of Wage-Earners 85 What the Federal Government May Do for the Promotion of the Welfare of its Employees..... 86 German Workingmen's Insurance System.. 87 What the Employer May Do for the Welfare of Employees.. 93 What the General Public May Do...... 95 What the Employee May Do to Contribute to His Own Welfare.. .ΙΟΙ PART II-PERSONAL HYGIENE.... ΙΟΙ Care of Special Organs or Parts of the Body.. ..113 Appendix A-Health of Employees in the Government Printing Office, ..116 APPENDIX.-REGULATION OF DANGEROUS TRADES IN ENG LAND 125 |