New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-07-21
WILL |. CONSERVE ! !! IS | !. !:
WORKERS I. HEALTH !! A ! Il ! !.
Three Score and, Ten Heritage I!||'j
Of All Men.
BIBLICAL LIFE LINE THE AIM

bIbLlCAl LIE LINZ IhE AIM
Many Large Industrial Enterprises
Nave Developed Just az Efficient o.
partments Of Health az Are 20 90
Found In Most Advanced Munloipaii.
ties-eeek Longer Life Of Employees.
San Francisco The biblical limit Of
threescore and ten win eventually be
the natural heritage Of every man. and
the railroads are engaged In an earnest
effort to bring about this condition az
promptly as possible, said DE-. q. w.
Hopkins, chief surgeon 6f the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway company, in
paper presented to the Academy Of
Medicine on 1.-THE Hospital Organize,
ton Of the Railway System"
Dr.. Hopkins pointed out that many
large industrial enterprises had devek
oped Just as efficient Departments of
health as were to be found I'm the most
advanced municipalities and sometimes
made even greater per capita expendi
tcre. The railroad physician or sur
geon had an especially fine field before
him. as the railways were finding Il
their duty not only to prevent acct
dents, but to prevent disease from Grip
ping the efficiency OF their armies Of
employees. 1T IS now well rcog-
nized fact among the arrangements ok
the railroad" he said, that it Is just
as important to care for their stick and
injured as it Is to maintain q certain
standard of efficiency or perfection Of
their rolling stock and roadbed."
In considering the organization Of
such work he said the first considera-
ton was the proper housing az rax-
way employees, in order that the man
could feel well tn the environment OF
a home and be free from worry and
anxiety. The next step toward eff
cIency hay Ia the direction Of physical
examination to determine the approach
Of disease IN its incipient stage.
There should be an understanding
with the workmen that this examine
ton is not for the purpose Of prepap-
ing him for rhe scrap pile" be said.
but for the purpose Of maintaining a
condition Of bodily health that viii
materially prolong his working days.
together with a higher degree Of earn
ing capacity and efficiency.
"'Two general methods have been In
use for some years by forty two repre-
sentative railroads of this country,
with the general predominance In fa-
,vor Of the hospital organization. where
the men themselves contribute q cep.
tain monthly amount toward their
maintenance. Twenty tour Of the for
ty-two railroads are today using the
hospital organizations, some OF which
We're established as long as fifty pears
ago. This was primarily brought about
ON account Of certain number az
these roads running through Q very
sparseiy settled country. where set1e
ments and doctors were fpw and Gas
between, and there were no hOspitals,
and where b was found tma men d
ten suffered and sometimes died be
cause Of LACK Of immediate and proper
care. BY q small contribution by the
men they were enabled to receive the
proper care by good men and to enjoy
the comforts that were necessary to
ward their we'll being, and with but
small cost to themselves.
The other eighteen roads employ
surgeons and hospitals and treat their
men for occupational injuries. paying
all bills for such treatment and care
without the small monthly assessment
contributed by the men. There have
been many arguments by learned econ
omists both for and against each
method" Ss8
The transportation Of Cmsump
tives" was exhaustively considered In
a paper BY Dr.. Henry B. Hemenway Of
Evanston, I'LL DE-. Hemenway said
that although consumptivess were
prone to travel In greater numbers
than any other one class OF persons af-
fiicted with disease. hnmanitarfnnfsm.
as well as law. would protect them In
their desire to travel unless 1t be shown
that their Journeys particularly. endan-:
gered their fellow travellers. The con-
clusiOn to which he came after review
ing statistics and laws bearing on the
subject was that the dangers involved
We're comparatively slight and that any
attempt at segregation Of consumptives
during transportation was impractica-
bic.
II the federal government were to
undertake restriction Of the travel q
consumptives In the United States, be
said, 1t could do SO only II the nuisance
were very real One thing to be con
sidered, he said, was the, fact that
most cases of tubercular Infection 90
CURED during childhood and that the
large proportion Of travellers were
adults Again. II there were special
dangers to the travelling public we
should find passenger ,brakemen and
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