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oer year at the various sites.
It is to be noted that the use of
cigures of dispensary visits does not include the mumber of visits o
individuals for routine blood counts, urinalyses, or chemical stuidle
If these were included the mmber of total visits would be nearly
doubled.
Of these visits in 1948, 63% were for industrial reasons;
in 1949, 54%; and in 1950, 48%. There appear to be several reasons
for this rather dramatic increase in the volume of work performed by
the Industrial Medical Group.
One factor has been the policy of the
“Group to discourege self medication and to encourage the reporting
ef all {11nesses or injuries, no matter how ainor.
Undoubtedly the
lengthening of the work week to six fill days has played its part in
the increased number of visits,
Finally, we would like to believe
that the quality of the service rendered by the Group has gained the
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eonfidence of the Laboratory personnel and that part of the increase
my be due to this.
D. Personnel
During the past year there has been little change in personnel
mumbers as may be seen in Figure III.
This figure shows a breakiown
by numbers of the types of work performed in the Group over the past
three years. Despite the increased volume of vork shown in the previous two graphs, the number of people employed in rendering the
service has remained essentially constant since 1048.
It may be
truthfully said that despite the increased volume of the service
rendered, the quality of service and the morale of the Group in senor
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