The New York herald., 1921-12-04

: 90 8 deaths per loco occurring an
nualiy az the working ages. Ten years
ago the rate was nearly double that
figure. II Is estimated that . per cent.
OF the industrial population. or about
l,25o,0oo lives, are affected.
Pneumonia, influcnza and typhoid
fever are the most important acute COM
municable diseases am9ng adults. Ty-
phoid fills more than 10000 sick beds
annually and takes about $4,000 lives.
mostly In the working ages. Influenza
and pneumonia in non-epidemic years
take about $4,000 lives in the working
ages and account for at least $500
cases OF illness.
Hookworm infection is present IN a
large industrial area to the extent OF at
least ; per cent. among the laboring
population. Intensive studies. show the
disease exists among so per cent. OF
students in Southern university
Special items OF loss are numerated
by the report as follows: tuberculosis.
S50000o.0o0 annually from death alone
and $4,000, 900. 900 in this generation
from diminished longevity; typhoid,
S135.00o0o0 annually; hookworm, $780,
100000 annually; malaria, 500. 900. 900
annually. These losses are all theoreti-
eally wholly preventable-at least rs per
cent. practically preventable--says the
report. which adds:
ITO remedy the unfayorable health
conditions, there is need to develop
among. the people at large u higher
sense Of responsibility for the care of
their bodies: in other words, higher
Ideals of personal hygiene, as well rs
In citizenship generally. In order pFac-
tically TO apply these ideals. organiza-
ton and certain governmental and So
cial machinery is necessary"
Possible lines of organization are
grouped as Federal. State, community.
industrial and national, State and local
extra governmental health agencies. II
q Federal Department Of Health is not
attainable. concentration OF Federal
health activities and related social activ-
tiles in one department Is suggested.
The eye section of the report stresses
the need for campaigns in smaller
plants. The cost for providing adequate
lighting facilities for the entire indus
try of the country. 1t is asserted. would
range from one-half TO one per cent.
OF wages.
The cost per capita OF correcting
vision, the report adds, instituting and
carrying out measures of protection
against hazards and bringing the light
ing UP TO good standards Is definitely
greater in the small plant than In the
larger ones-those employing 1000
workers or more. These smaller plants
are therefore less ready TO take up any
of these measures unless the early re-
turns Of dividend can be clearly
shown.
r. Army figures cited bear out estimates
of Industrial loss resulting from acci-
dents to the eye and defective vision.
OF 2.222 men discharged for physical
reasons by the military authorities in
Brooklyn and Manhattan 462 were re-
1ected because of defective eyes. Eye
conservation, the report says. has now
become matter Of organized national
concern. The Eye Sigh. Conservation
Council of America and many OF the
country's biggest industrial enterprises
are working to cut down the enormous
annual l9es which is said TO flow from
this form of waste
The report asserts that "a continual
restriction of the term industrial worker
to mechanical factory labor operates in
our Judgment to erect an unnecessary
and formal barrier between capital and