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...such companies are out to help is not the employee who goes on an occasional binge but the worker whose job suffers from his drinking. "You must be very careful," says Dr. Harold Vonachen, head of Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s medical department, "that you're not dealing with just the social phenomenon of martinis before dinner or drinking one too many on Saturday night." To discover the man who is having real trouble handling his liquor -and the problem strikes executive and machinist alike-companies brief supervisory personnel on the signs to watch for, such as frequent absenteeism...
Syphilis is another concern of industrial medicine. Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s Harold Albert Vonachen reported that the syphilitics of their Peoria, Ill. plant are kept at work as long as they follow treatment by their family doctors. He discovered that 400 of the 10,000 employes had syphilis. Only two refused treatment. They lost their jobs...
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