RT Journal
T1 INdustrial hygiene
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD June 16
VO 303
IS 23
SP 2419
OP 2419
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.709
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.709
AB 
Of these conferences, that on industrial diseases was the first ever held in this country. The interest which the medical profession should take in this subject was well indicated by Mr. Frederick Hoffman, actuary of the Prudential Insurance Company, of Newark. N. J., who declares that in many trades one-third of the deaths recorded are due to one specific disease; and that, at a conservative estimate, the money loss alone in the United States in one year, due to preventable occupational disease, is nearly a billion dollars. (Another statement made at this conference was that the money loss alone in the United States in one year due to sickness cost, loss in wages, and economic loss in industry, may be conservatively placed at a billion and a quarter dollars.)