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Disease Control and Prevention

The working environment and its effect on worker's health became a major area of study for the Public Health Service starting in 1910. Investigations in the garment making industry, as illustrated by these women making flowers, revealed unsanitary conditions and an excessive rate of tuberculosis. Other studies were done of silicosis among miners, sanitation and working conditions in the steel industry, lead poisoning in the pottery industry, and radiation hazards in the radium dial painting industry. These studies and surveys were coordinated by the Division of Industrial Hygiene and led by such officers as Joseph W. Schereschewsky. They eventually helped to better health conditions and provided safer work environments for many workers.

c. 1910

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