Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-27

4 company.
l kept home work day two by seemingly
trivial aiment reflect that average every Ameri-
the sick list for nine out of the sos days in
the year.
Estimating our working population at so 600 600 people
this would almost 1000 years in illness
ndusrially 100000 years Of human life 10 waste
nuallY the sufferers demand
of time effort from those who we'll The invalid
singly, may insignificant; in mass, he totals an
enormous
Statistics show that wages lost by these sOOOdOOO
rerlefa=aHaetnt- 100000 aHHgaiyFfe uf
may easily to much again Thus sick
ness cost the United something like 100000
year a greatly below the combined value Of the
products greatest manufacturing industries
those OF and steel and OF textiles
America great strides in what is generally
civilization recent years and our citizens ought
to But such strides usually not
disadvantages Progress creates trades which
bring diseases Science recognizes that nearly every
profession old has its special disease which causes
much loss Of time.
OF course it was known years ago that
such potters the painters and the matchmakers
peculiar 10 them The machmakers suffered
from phosphorus poisoning known 'phossy jaw the
painters painters collie" while wrist drop blind
ness loss Of teeth paralysis the potters lot
But trade the increase recent scientific
Investigation CONJUNCTION with the national defense pro-
gram has shown.
Excepting the heart the most frequently affected
parts of human body the lungs and might
every where workers liable 10 nhale dust
there other of lung disease connected with
IT, Among the increasing examples Is what doctors can
wheat shfters asthma The who work IN grain ele
vators and granaes unbagging and weighing wheat suf
from this malady which Is caused by their Hhafe
the pollen OF grain they The that these
high, but worker is attacked by this
distressing asthma he is incapacitated for life except
the lightest work.
Due TO the enormous pressure
subjected deep frequently suffer from the violent
painful bends" while coal miners contract miners
lung" The latter by constantly nhalng coal
dust and somewhat disease attaches 10 workers
who shape and polish Grinders lung
among Iaborers who grind steel in the big rolling
hall mir ~
and emery fy from the griiing wheels and although
special inhaers and protective masks are provided the
workers often refuse TO them
Employees certain branches of the fur trade have
their particular afcon styles demand that types
pes first be sheared and the finely cut fur gets
INTO everything branch of the industry
fur drink fur breathe fur. AS consequence they be-
affected with peculiar lung disease kind OF con-
sumption accompanied by pthisis Of the
inflammation Of the inestnes which also cause
workmen many days Of sickness
There engineers kidney winch is supposed 10
almost all railway sooner or later who ride the
rolling stock and by inhalation but by
absorption through the Of the skin OF dirt and gt
unavoidable OH railroad
Cooks suffer from trade caused by
constantly standing hot fire In the dis
order aggravated by the alcohol that most professional
chefs excessively and 1t is not improved by the
many samples their culinary art which they cat
Seaeer as r.He. suffer from no special disease unesS
il chronic alcoholism If soker however ne
is subject the liver kidney lungs and heart
disease besides The by the heat the second
and third by absorbs and nhales and the fourth
nv the tremendously work he has 10 do in tempera
re of higher than degrees Fahrenheit Consequently
though on many old sailors seldom stoe
beyond age 40 Ten II of this geng labor
on a liner Is enough to kill any man.
new and mysterious disease called Jake foot struck
workngmen drank Jamaica ginger in the Middle west
ten years ago still giving doctors end of trouble
recent survey made in the vicinity of Wichita Kansas
where 500 persons afflicted with or died from the
alady showed many recovered but others have
since sccumbed the effects Of the drink which was
popar bootleg during prohibition days Twenty
victims still living and they receive treatment al
take farm the strange maady
that OF the foot and hand muscles