HEALTH MAINTENANCE PROGRAM FOR WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

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That the field of industrial medicine has become more and more that of preventive medicine is manifested by the reports of some of our largest industries. These reports show that year after year the amount of lost time due to occupational causes has become less and less, while that of nonoccupational illness and accident continues almost unabated. In fact, one large industry employing over 300,000 men and women reports that approximately 96 per cent of all lost time from illness and accident arose from nonoccupational sources. It is interesting to note that Lynch's1 study of 16,648 cases of lost time from illness and accident resulted in almost identical statistics: "Sickness 86 per cent, nonoccupational accidents 10 per cent, occupational accidents 4 per cent." He concludes that, if many of these lost man-hours are to be salvaged, the major problems concerned are not those of safety measures within the plant,

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