Disabling Morbidity among Employees in the Soap Industry, 1930-34, Inclusive

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This report deals with sickness and nonindustrial injuries causing disability lasting 8 calendar days or longer among persons engaged in the soap industry. The annual number of cases per 1,000 was 76.0 for [male][male] and 98.1 for [female][female], while the annual number of days of disability per person was 2.70 and 3.41, respectively. The avg. number of days per case was 355 among [male][male] and 34.8 among [female][female]. Age standardized frequency rates by occupation among [female][female] ranged from 31.8 for office workers to 134.9 for soap handlers and process laborers. High rates were associated with strenuous manual labor, and low rates with white-collar and supervisory occupations. In some occupations certain diagnosis groups showed rates much above the avg. for all occupations. According to socio-economic class for [male][male], clerks and salesmen had the lowest frequency rate, followed in order of increasing magnitude by skilled t workers and foremen, semiskilled workers in manufacturing, and unskilled workers. Similarly, with respect to [female][female], semiskilled workers in manufacturing showed a higher frequency rate than clerks.

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