The environment of the school creates a necessity for certain internal adaptative actions, and if this adaptative action can not take place the result will be an abnormal condition peculiar to the necessity for adaptation. The lack of adaptation may result in incoördinations of the respiratory tract; incoördinations of the eyes, involving not only the sight but the different tissues and secretions of the eyes; incoördinations involving the heart, throat and mouth and many conditions of eruptions of the skin. Especially do we find deformities and incoördinations of the spine and spinal column.
In diagnostic terminology these conditions would be called bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, pleurisy, myopia, catarrhal conjunctivitis, trachoma, cardiac dis-eases, such as endocarditis, etc. The mouth, nose and throat dis-eases would be coryza, adenoid growths, enlarged tonsils, tonsilitis, nose bleed, etc. These conditions could all be prevented or corrected by adjusting the causative subluxations.
Prophylaxis
It is not necessary for us to go into an explanation of the spinal column and how subluxations are produced. It is sufficient at this time to call the student’s attention to the fact that subluxations are often produced, and especially is this true during childhood. The children are subject to falls during their play at school and they are most likely to produce subluxations. This being true, the children should be analyzed periodically to determine the subluxations and then they should be adjusted. When parents realize the good that is to come from such procedure they will take their children to the chiropractor and have their spine palpated and the subluxations adjusted. When this becomes a universal practice there will be a marked decrease in the so-called school dis-eases or children’s dis-eases.
CHAPTER IX
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
Definitions
NECESSITY FOR INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
PROPER ENVIRONMENT
Effect of Occupation upon Health
Personal Factors
Choice of Occupation
IDIOSYNCRASIES CONSIDERED
SEX REGARDED
Effect of Labor upon Children
MAY CAUSE CURVATURES
CHILD LABOR PROHIBITED
Place of Work
Effect of Posture
SEDENTARY OCCUPATIONS
ACTIVE OCCUPATIONS
Fatigue
HOW PRODUCED
RESULT
HYGIENE AND SANITATION OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS
Space Per Individual
Character of Building
Lighting, Heating and Ventilating Work Places
LIGHTING
TEMPERATURE
HUMIDITY
AIR PRESSURE
LOCATION OF WORK
Industrial Dusts
MECHANICAL VENTILATION
CLASSIFICATION OF DUSTY TRADES
INDUSTRIAL POISONS
Lead Poisoning
SYMPTOMS
PREVENTIVE METHODS
Arsenic Poisoning
SYMPTOMS
WHERE USED
Mercurial Poisoning
SYMPTOMS
HOW CONTRACTED
PREVENTIVE METHODS
Phosphorus Poisoning
TWO VARIETIES
SYMPTOMS
WORKERS AFFECTED
Chromium Poisoning
HOW CONTRACTED
PARTS AFFECTED
CHAPTER IX
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE