Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Defective Hearing on Railroads. [ARTICLE]

Defective Hearing on Railroads.

I Attention is called in medteal Journals to the desirability of testing railway employes for defective hearing as well as for color-Windness. A recent examination in Europe developed the , fact that out of eighty-two firemen and engine-drivers only three possessed perfectly normal hearing. It is suggested that there should be a standard of hearing power for the examination of employes who have to depend upon sound signals.