Industrial Health Department Functions and Relationships: A Quarter of a Century of Progress in Industrial Health Administration

The most encouraging revelation in this two year study sponsored by the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of Pittsburgh is the considerable gains which have been made since Selby's similar review for the Public Health Service in 1919. The subtitle of the brochure is "A Quarter of a Century of Progress in Industrial Health Administration." Present conditions in 278 plants employing 1,180,551 workers were analyzed, with particular attention to personnel, physical plant, functions, intramural and extramural relations, reasons for maintenance and miscellaneous data relating to records, floor plans, procedure and the like. As in many similar studies, it is again demonstrated that large plants are in a position to avail themselves of competent and reasonably complete health services and that extension to small concerns is still the great unsolved problem. Much of the data in text and tables supports this conclusion. Sappington's suggestions for further improvement in the broad industrial health picture