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Most executives of the Dennison Manufacturing Co.* at Framingham, Mass., were wearing suspenders last week. They do so because after long years of cajoling they accept the health instructions of Dr. Halstead G. Murray, company physician...
Nine years ago President Henry Sturgis Dennison decided that the time had come to set up some sort of health supervision for his 130 major and minor executives. He is a paternalistic employer. He put in the Taylor System of scientific management in his Framingham factories; he started a profit-sharing system, through which the employes now own a good third of the company's stock...
...executives, sturdy New Englanders, disliked exhibiting their naked bodies to the doctors. President Dennison cajoled and wheedled, won eventually thoroughgoing consent...
Probably every U. S. factory would have shown the ills that Dennison did. Few of the executives had organic diseases. Most were "healthy." But there were all too many cases of functional disturbances caused by mental strain, worry, improper living, neglect of personal hygiene. Some men had decayed teeth, others poor eyesight, improper glasses; some were under weight, others over weight. Men bright enough to have become Dennison executives were not smart enough to eat properly, sleep enough, avoid constipation, take exercise. President Dennison's example and the medical examiner's urgency made the executives start to remedy...
...this Company Doctor Halstead G. Murray was proud to report to the American Medical Association at Minneapolis last June. But he was obliged to admit that even after nine years, half of the Dennison executives take no exercise in winter...