Industrial medicine and surgery . lmora during the last nine years and the results havebeen most excellent. This was one of the first sanatoria to adoptgraduated exercise, in the form of work, for its patients. (See Fig. 64.) In 1915 the Ford Motor Company introduced this plan of givingfree sanatorium care to every tuberculous employee. It has evenextended this policy to the tuberculous applicant for work. A sana-torium near Detroit has been developed where these employees aresent until the disease is arrested. They then return to the plant, areput to work in some outside occupation and are ca
Industrial medicine and surgery . lmora during the last nine years and the results havebeen most excellent. This was one of the first sanatoria to adoptgraduated exercise, in the form of work, for its patients. (See Fig. 64.) In 1915 the Ford Motor Company introduced this plan of givingfree sanatorium care to every tuberculous employee. It has evenextended this policy to the tuberculous applicant for work. A sana-torium near Detroit has been developed where these employees aresent until the disease is arrested. They then return to the plant, areput to work in some outside occupation and are carefully supervisedby the medical staff. Most of these cases have been placed on thework of salvaging the scrap iron which previously was sold as salvaging process, done by salvaged employees, netted thisconcern a profit of $78,000 in one year. Large dividends from a simplehumanitarian effort! The profit to these employees and their familiescannot be shown in dollars and cents. (See Fig. 65.) THE TUBERCULOUS EMPLOYEE 455.
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