Sickness Survey of Principal Cities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia: Sixth Community Sickness Survey |
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Sickness Survey of Principal Cities in Pennsylvania and West Vriginia Lee Kaufer Frankel No preview available - 2015 |
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1,000 exposed Number accidents and injuries age period ages 15 anthracite and bituminous anthracite coal miners apoplexy asthma bituminous coal miners bituminous miners Bronchitis Cerebral hemorrhage cities in middle city of Pittsburgh Classified by Extent colored persons coryza and rhinitis Diphtheria disabling sickness DISEASE OR CONDITION diseases and conditions dispensary DURATION OF SICKNESS entire survey Extent of Disability facts figures group of cities health census higher Influenza iron and steel measles medical attendance members of anthracite middle and western Number and Percentage number of persons Number Per cent Pennsylvania and West Pennsylvania cities persons enumerated persons in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Pleurisy pneumonia private physicians rate of disabling rate of sickness respiratory system Rheumatism Scarlet fever serious sickness SEX AND AGE sickness involving disability Sickness Survey steel mill employees steel mill workers Survey of Pennsylvania TOTAL SICK PERSONS tuberculosis Typhoid fever West Virginia cities West Virginia survey western Pennsylvania white males whooping cough
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Page 29 - nearly half the employees have no provision for either the incapacitated through accident or for the maintenance of widows and orphans when death befalls those who provide for them in this hazardous calling. Many operators display generosity worthy of emulation ; others manifest criminal indifference to the sufferings of employees and their families because of accident. . . . To leave these men to the mercy of overbearing operators in case of injury and death is unworthy of the civilization of the...
Page 70 - ... of sick benefit or for other reserve income during the incapacity of their bread-winners. 5. Facts thus obtained should become the basis upon which communities can develop and organize preventive and curative health programmes adapted to their needs and to administer them wisely and economically. The health programme of any community should arise directly out of the local situation as disclosed by a survey. 6. Inquiries into sickness should be repeated, from time to time, to determine the extent...
Page 36 - Measles. Scarlet fever. Whooping cough. Diphtheria and croup. Influenza. Tuberculosis of the lungs.
Page 23 - ... merchant in Great Britain, having carried on a firm made famous by his father. With the possible excepQuite different, these average rates of profit, from those secured by such rarely fortunate vessels as the Lagoda! And if figures of 1.3 per cent to 6.5 per cent a year are to be taken as a rough average, it is evident that there must have been a large number of moderate losses and some heavy ones in order to offset so effectively the soaring rates of the exceptionally successful whalers. In...
Page 26 - Traumatism by cutting or piercing.. Traumatism by fall ^* Traumatism in mines and quarries . . ^ Traumatism by...
Page 69 - Sickness survey of principal cities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 1917. 78 p. (Sixth community sickness survey.) 614.09F85s Surveys of this character are made on the assumption that communities can effectively advance the health interests of their people by determining the extent of sickness losses within their borders. Facts thus obtained may be used as the basis upon which to develop and organize preventive and curative health programmes. The health programme of any community should arise...
Page 69 - ... determining the extent of sickness losses within their borders. Facts thus obtained may be used as the basis upon which to develop and organize preventive and curative health programmes. The health programme of any community should arise directly out of the local situation as disclosed by a survey. This is the most extensive sickness survey as yet undertaken by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. It shows that sickness is responsible for the loss of at least 2 per cent, of the effective...
Page 31 - Diseases of the eyes and ears . . Organic diseases of the heart . . Other diseases of the circulatory system...
Page 55 - Diseases of the respiratory system, diseases of the digestive system, accidents and injuries, are the only causes which have higher rates among the members of anthracite families.
Page 67 - A law of this kind has been prepared by the United States Public Health Service, and is at present upon the statute books of a number of American States.