Trends in employee health service : Margaret F. McKiever, editor.

  • United States. Public Health Service. Division of Occupational Health.
Date:
1965]
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    SECTION 2 Developments in Recent Years During and after the war years American technology grew by leaps and bounds. New industrial processes and chemicals and increasing automation have rapidly changed the work environment. As a result of what had already been accomplished in the occupational health fields, many of the classical occupational diseases had been eradicated or controlled; but new problems were arising with results that could be more far reaching than those of the past and more difficult to detect. The well-known occupational diseases, too, continued to ap- pear, though in smaller numbers. Industrial specialists began to look toward the future and to encourage preventive health and other health maintenance services. The health problems and work poten- tialities of physically handicapped workers also began to receive special attention. So much has happened in recent years that it is impossible to report all significant events. The items included here are but a partial record and are limited principally to some of the more important legis- lation and actions of national significance. 1950 First Technical Conference on Air Pollution was held under the auspices of several Federal agencies, including the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Bureau of Mines. For the first time in the history of American industrial institu- tions, the degree of Doctor of Industrial Medicine was con- ferred upon medical graduates. The degree was conferred at the University of Pittsburgh on three recipients who had com- pleted a special industrial course.