Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1938 — Page 7

Better Training for Diagnosing Industrial Diseases Urged Before Safety Group

(Copyright, 1938, by Science Service) CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—The idea among physicians that industrial diseases are difficult to diagnose is fallacious thinking, Dr. Carey P. McCord of Detroit told the National Safety Congress here recently. “Let it be said at once that at least one-half of all occupational diseases are almost self-diagnosing, particularly when arising in groups, and that the remaining half present no greater difficulties than attend the diagnosis of some other classes of disease,” he declared. Diagnosing industrial diseases is rarely done well, emphasized Dr. McCord, but this situation arises

because of the lack in the training of the physician and not particularly in the diseases themselves. Better training in medical school and in hospitals could do much to correct the matter, he said.

Trained Sailors Called

Best Fire Protection

The risk of the worst of all fires, fire at sea, can be best overcome by proper training of seamen and officers, Commander Robert C. Lee, of the Moore & McCormack Co. New York, told the marine section of the Safety Congress. Much has been done, Commander

Lee indicated, in the study of materials which go into ships in relation to their ability to burn or support combustion. All too little, he added, has been done from the side of improving seaman personnel, which is a big factor in any ship fire. “This is not a very popular thing to discuss, and I am frequently in hot water on aceount of my publicly expressed views on the subject,” he declared. “Let us get going and give our Merchant Marine the best trained sailors that can be produced,” Commander Lee implored. “Then, with

well designed ships, the menace of

fire at sea will have largely disappeared.”

Pellagra Unnecessary At Any Time, Is Claim

DURHAM, N. C., Oct. 13.—Pellagra, hard-times disease of the South, can be eliminated in bad times as well as good, Dr. William H. Sebrell Jr, of the U. S. Public Health Service’s National Institute of Health, declared here. The way to, conquer this ailment of the red rash, wracked nerves and dementia is by teaching people, especially the tenant farmers and

sharecroppers in the South, to grow and eat the right foods, Dr. Sebrell said. ’ ; Pellagra . in the United States, which in some years kills its victims by the thousands, has followed the prosperity of the cotton producer. When cotton is profitable, Dr. Sebrell said, pellagra decreases; when cotton becomes unprofitable, pellagra at first increases. Then, if cotton continues unprofitable, pellagra decreases, because with the exhaustion of credit it is necessary for the people to turn to production of food and forage crops. Relief measures also then make themselves felt. Pellagra, however, can -be di-

vorced from poverty, Dr. Sebrell declared. In other sections of the country there is much poverty

without pellagra.

Low Voltage Shock Danger Is Cited

Low voltage shocks of even 12 votes can be dangerous, H. W. Arlin of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. told the Safety

Congress..

Despite the general belief among workmen that voltages up to 110 or 220 volts cannot produce fatal shock unless a man has a weak heart, Mr.

Arlin cited reports on tests conducted by various organizations which show that when an electrical circuit is completed through a wet contact any voltage in excess of 12 volts is dangerous.

Tagged Iron Atoms Upset Old Theories

By Science Service DURHAM, N. C., Oct. 13.—Current theories about how the body uses iron for blood-building have been upset by studies with radioactive iron atoms, Prof. George H. Whipple of the Rochester, N. Y.,

University School of Medicine, re-

ported to the Duke University syme posium on medical problems. Liver still stands at the head of the list of foods that promote the building of hemoglobin and red blood cells in anemia, Prof. Whip ple said. After liver, kidney and other mea products stand high on the list of blood-building foods, whereas vege« tables and dairy products stand low. Describing ‘his latest studies with the tagged iron atoms, produced by the atom-smashing cyclotron of Prof. E. O. Lawrence of the Uni. versity of California, Prof. Whipple said. .

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