The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-01

Blcal attendance 10 injured WOfkinef,
there are no statistics on cost avail
able for the Medical Aid Board, but
through the office of the Industrial
Commission the cost for time loss
in each industry may be obtained.
This cost runs from six mills in
lumber yards to $26.93 in canal
construction, which is the highest in
the list.
1t is reasonable to suppose that
the cost of medical attendance will
bear some relation to the cost of
time loss, and we have used this
cost of time loss in making our
first classification. The average
cost for three years, or $1.71, is
put in class C by the basis laid
down in the law, and those that
are lower than this are put in class
A or B, according to where they
fall. The next highest coming in
D, and we have placed in D all of
those that show cost between
1925 and 1925. Then we have
placed all the highest ones in class
f, beginning with advertising signs
with a rate of $434, bridge con-
stluction $5.42, well drilling $3.50,
road making $5.84 iron and steel
frame structures other than bridges
$751, land clearing $1077, moving
machinery $214S, canal construc-
T. tion $26.93, and number of others
that run in this neighborhood.
The law provides for merit sys-
TEN. The information necessary to
establish this system may be OBJ
tanned from the statistics of this Of
flee by the end of the first year,
and at that time the industries can
be re-classified with some accur-
acy.
The Medical Aid Board has sent
the following letter of instructions
to the employers of the state of
Washington:
At the last session Of the legis-
lature the Workmens Compensation
Act of this state was amended in
several particulars, the most i'm
port change being the addition of the
Medical Aid Law to the Act. A
brief resume of this new law is as
follows:
Classification of Industries-The
l. 81 +1
which shall be paid by the employer
on or before June Is, 1917, and each
succeeding month thereafter for each
days work, or fraction thereof done
for him in extra hazardous employ
ment in or during the preceding cal
endar month, the following amount:
In class GA" 1c; class 3d." 11ac;
class &C." &c; class 3D." 21ac; class
&C." &c. One-half the amount due
the medical aid fund shall be deduct
ed from the wage of the employe,
and the other one-half shall be paid
by the employer. You will note that
deductions from the workmen's wage
IluSI DSSlil May /, lJl {.
Local Aid Boards-Subject to the
rules and regulations promulgated
by the State Medical Aid Board, the
administration of. care, treatment,
and services to injured workmen shall
be in the hands of local boards, to
be designated by the name of local
aid boards, each to have two mem
bers, one to be selected and removed
at pleasure by a majority of the
workmen coming under its juris-
diction and one by majority of
the employers coming under its jur-
isdiction. These boards should be
organized and the names and ad-
stresses of the members of each
board placed on file with the State
Medical Aid Department as soon as
possible.
Section 6604-40 1t shall be the
duty of each local aid board to pro
vide care and treatment for each
workman injured after June 80, 1917,
in extra-hazardous employment, to
report to the secretary of the State
Board the commencement of every
disability, the termination of same,
the cause of same, with recommenda-
tions. for the Improvement of the
services and of the administration,
and also, subject to the provisions
of Section 6604-37, certify to the
State Board all bills rendered for
care or treatment of injured work
men with power to reject any bill
or item thereof, incurred in viola
tion of the principle laid down in
Section 6604-36. Blanks will be
furnished by this department
Contract Hospital and Medical
Service-An employer may, with the
consent of a majority of his work
men, enter into a written contract
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