Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-02

tai work alone saved 5000 in one
year for the company and employees.
1T is about a $3.50 basis with the
employer and employee" said a
representative of the plant.
Upon the present LASTS physical
examinations are not opposed as they
have been in The past. They are
carried on tactfully with the pur-
pose adapted. Any who are denied
employment because of some physi
cal menace, may be later found
preaching Bolshcvism.
The Conference Board Of Physi-
clans in Industry, New York, leal ned
from missionaries sent out in 1920,
that 81 plants out of sc made physical
examinations. The position OF the
physician in industry has been made
secure, and his opportunity for SER
vice is great, giving special attention
to lighting, heating, and ventilation of
industrial plants. Many progressive
communities do not grant employ
ment certificates to boys and gi..s
who are under normal weight and
not physically fit. Several plants
during the recent strikes, discontin-
ued medical services, and have not
as We. called them back, which
shows that some employers do not
yet realize its value.
BY physical examinations, four
classes of people are found Those
fit for any employment. those below
par in physical development and yet
are fit for any employment, those fit
for only certain kinds of employment,
and those physically unfit for any
employment
The physician in industry is one
who applies the principles of modern
medicine and hygiene, and who real
ICES the economic problems and re-
sponsibilities of industry in it's re-
lation to society. He should also
realize the duties of workers to the
industry in which they are engaged.
Dr.. S. AdoIphus Nno7f
pr. 5. Adolphus knopf was the
fnal speaker at the morning session
He was for number of years profess
sor in the New York Graduate Medi-
cal School and is now consulting
physician of the New York Health
department hospital for the consump-
tive poor and other Metropolitan in
situations.
DR.. knopf took for his subject "a
Physiological Rest Cure in the Home
Treatment of tuberculosis" He pre-
scented novel and simple, yet seem
ingly very potent help in the treat
ment of pulmonary tuberculosis. IT
is a method Of a certain type of
breathing. having for it's object the
decrease in number of respirations
and limiting it to diaphragmatic
breathing and thus giving the infam-
ed tubercular lung a rest. DR.. Knopf
IS convincing speaker and his mes
sage was of great interest to those
present.
Adopt Resolutions
The annual business meeting was
called to order at II O'Clock in the
House of Representatives with r. "
spencer OF Boston presiding. The
meeting unanimously adopted resolu-
tons drawn up by a committee con-
sisting of DR.. Edward O. Otis. Mass.
Chairman; DR.. r. A. Laid, Yer
mon; Dr. Arthur w. Wallace. New
hampshire: Miss Margaret X. Stack,
Connecticut; Walter d. Thurber.
Maine: and DR.. Harry J.. Barnes.
Rhode Island. Aside from the reso-
lEtions already presented, the follow
ing were adopted.
Resolved: That the sincere thanks
OF the New England Conference on
tuberculosis be extended to the large
number of organizations and individ
uals who have contributed to the
success of the conference and the en-
tertainment of the delegates, ecpec-
tally the following: To his ExceIlen-
cy the Governor of Maine and mem
bers of his official staff; to the Dent.
or Health, the Department Of Edu-
cation, the Department of Agricul-
tnre, the Maine Medical Association,
the Maine Public Health Association.
the Augusta Chamber of Commerce,
the Augusta Country Club, the Au-
gusta Community Club and the Board
OF Trustees of the State Tuberculosis
Sanatoriums"
Resolved: That while the rapidly
declining mortality rate from tuber-
crlosis is most gratifying and en-
couraging, 1t should not be interpret
ed as allowing any relaxation in the
organized effort to control the dis
ease, but on the contrary as indica-