Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . emporary Injury. During the first six months of the year, $128, was paid formedicine and the service of physicians. This amount excludes the7,135 cases that were cared for by physicians under contract or athospitals owned by the employer. In 1,863 cases where disability lasted through one day or more, nomedical expense was incurred by either casualty company or employer. By comparing the number of cases where specific charges for medi-cal services were made, and those that
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . emporary Injury. During the first six months of the year, $128, was paid formedicine and the service of physicians. This amount excludes the7,135 cases that were cared for by physicians under contract or athospitals owned by the employer. In 1,863 cases where disability lasted through one day or more, nomedical expense was incurred by either casualty company or employer. By comparing the number of cases where specific charges for medi-cal services were made, and those that were cared for by contractdoctors or at company hospitals, it will be noted that about 44 per centof all cases requiring medical attention were cared for under someform of contract or association plan. REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION. 65 It is next to impossible to obtain accurately the average cost ofmedical attention per case. As has already been pointed out, 44 percent of the cases are cared for under contract, which leaves a littlemore than half of the total number of cases from which to obtain an. Fig. IX. average. The necessity of deriving an average cost of medical atten-tion from half the number of cases accounts for this disparity of ex-periences, and the average cost of $ is out of all proportion com-pared with other experience. 5—14238 66 REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION. However, if the average be derived from the total number of acci-dents that disable for one day or more it would be found to be con-siderably less. For example, the total number of accidents that caused employeesto remain off duty for one day or more is 17,131, and the total medicalcosts $128,, determining an average of $ per case treated. By combining the totals of amounts expended for compensation andmedical benefits to employees temporarily disabled, and dividing by thetotal number of accidents that occasioned disability for one day ormore, we find that the aver
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