ENEMY NO. 1 
ON THE HOME FRONT 
23.000. persons ill, impaired or defective. 
1.000. person-days lost from work or 
usual pursuits every year. 
$10,000,000,000 estimated annual 
cost of accident and ill health. 
TO HELP SAVE 
300,000,000 WAR WORK DAYS 
THIS YEAR 
A "Keep Fit" Educational Program of Personal 
Health, Safety and Physical Conditioning 
Which Every Industrial or Community Unit 
Can Easily and Economically Put to Work 
To Reduce Time Lost from War Work Due to Disability 
To Increase the Physical Effectiveness of All Workers 
To Reach Mothers and Families of Workers 
To Clean Up Illness, Injury and Disability, and Their Causes 
To Make America a Nation of Well, Active, Health- 
Conscious People 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITER STATES 
Washington. H. C. Copyright 1943 
Chamber of Commerce 
of the United States 
Washington, D. C. CHALLENGING 
""The *10.000.000.000 Annual Tax 
nobody yeti" 
Physical Disability lays a Billion Person-Day loss, a Many Billion Dollar 
burden, upon America's War Effort and national economy. 
This handicap, ranging from acute illness and injury to under-par 
physical condition, chronic disease and so-called permanent impair- 
ment or serious defect, levies upon the Nation's communities, in 
terms of absence from work and many other direct or indirect forms, 
an annual loss or "tax" estimated at $10,000,000,000—a gigantic tax 
that everybody pays and nobody gets. 
In recent decades, the medical profession and the sciences bearing 
upon health have made the most spectacular progress in all history. 
We now know how to disarm and defeat many of the diseases usually 
listed among our first twenty "public enemies." 
But with the conditions imposed by the war, health hazards now are 
greatly increased, in ways too numerous to list—rationing of food 
and fuel, stress of economic and working conditions, drafting of 
doctors, nurses and others for front-line service. . . . 
It is to meet these threats that Washington has called upon every 
community to mobilize its home front for Health ... and in response 
to this call, that Business, through its Chamber of Commerce of the United States, has taken the lead 
in developing a definite program 
available to every community. 
All members of the National 
Chamber are vitally Interested In 
Industrial, Community and Individ- 
ual Health, in the reduction of 
absences due to health causes— 
In the abolition of this "tax no- 
body gets." 
Every community, every industry, 
every insurance company, every 
commercial enterprise and every 
taxpayer will benefit immeasur- 
ably by the increased physical 
fitness of the American people. 
But how to attack so vast a prob- 
lem, and to Implement and ad- 
vance the splendid work already 
being done by scores of special- 
ized organizations now working 
In the field of Health, Safety and 
Hygiene? 
For some time, those in charge of 
the new United States Chamber 
Health Education Program have 
been studying this situation. They 
URGE KEEPING WAR 
WORKERS FIT TO CUT 
BIG WORK DAY LOSS 
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4, 1942.—Six 
high officials charged with increasing Arnei i- 
ca’s war production today appealed to Wai 
Pi'oduction Drive Committees to keep the 
American workman fit and healthy to save 
man hours for victory. T XT , 
The appeal was signed by Donald> M- 
Chairman of the WPB; Paul V. McNutt, Chan- 
man of the War Manpower Commission, 
Robert P. Patterson, Under-Secretary of Wai, 
James V. Forrestal, Under-Secretary of the 
Navy; E. R. Stettinius, Jr., Lend-Lease Admin- 
istrator, and E. S. Land, Chairman of the Man- 
time Commission. 
Their joint statement was sent to eacn 
labor-management committee m the more than 
800 plants which are participating in the 
Production Drive. The text follows: 
“Sick and injured war production work- 
ers lose 6,000,000 work-days every month. 
“We must save as many of those lost 
days as we possibly can for the Produc- 
tion Drive. . 
“Only healthy workers pan put into 
the drive what it takes—vigor, staying- 
power and the will to win. 
“It is your job to fight sickness and acci- 
dents. See to it that every medical and 
engineering means of prevention is•Pro- 
vided in your plant. Make it a healthful 
working place. 
“Help the men and women in youi 
olant to keep themselves healthy and on 
Se job You can do this by training them 
in health conservation and safety as caie 
fully as you train them in efficiency. 
“Use your influence to see that youi 
community has an active public healt 
department; enough doctors, nurses and 
hospital beds to care for your workers and 
their families. Your Federal and State 
governments are doing then pait Make 
sure your community does its part. 
“If your plant is not already conducting 
a sound industrial hygiene program, write 
to the United States Public Health Se^ 
ice Washington*. D. C., for advice.^ 
1 nroductm have met with the leaders of many health organizations. They have 
considered the health problem as it affects our war effort, and also 
in terms of peace-time economy. And they have found that the 
needed link in present efforts for community and industrial health is 
a means for continuous, simplified, sound but popularized health 
education of community leaders, war workers, the average individual 
and the family. 
With the cooperation of a thoroughly representative Advisory 
Council, the United States Chamber has accordingly produced and 
made available to Its members and affiliates In all communities, a 
sound, popular and economical program of general health education. 
This program every community may use in its efforts to improve 
health, reduce war work absences due to health causes, clean up all 
possible disabilities or impairments, and minimize the occurrence of 
occupational diseases. 
This program effectively gears into the health efforts of all recog- 
nized National and community health organizations. It simplifies and 
at the same time intensifies the war on disease, injury and defi- 
ciency which the U. S. Chamber in common with other organizations 
has been waging for years. 
By the aggressive application of this program, It is estimated that 
the full time of 500,000 to 1,000,000 workers can be added to the war 
effort, eventually lopping off a material part of "the $10,000,000,000 
annual tax nobody gets." 25 Years’ Progress in Health NOW THREATENED 
IN THE WAR 
"YARDSTICKS" OF HEALTH 
IN 1916-18 
IN 1940-41 YEARS 1943-4 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Average Life Span 
55 years 
62 years 
7 
Death Rate per 1,000 
I4 
10.6 
7 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Average Hospital Stay (days) 
17-20 
10 
7 
Births with Hospital Care 
621,896 (1929) 
Over 1.200.000 [«] 
' ' 1 all births J 
7 
No. approved Hospitals 
89 
2,806 
7 
Hospital Beds Available 
612.251 
1,226,246 
7 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Doctors Available 
145,241 of whom 
3 1,000 in Service 
180,496*, of whom 
42,000 have been 
called to Armed Services 
55,000 or more 
total to be in 
War Service 
before 1944. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Accidents . . . Injury % 
(Not Available) 
9,400,000 
7 
Fatal % 
85,100 (1918) 
102.500 
7 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Absentees from work 
6,000,000 persons (av. 
due to Illness-Injury 
(Not Available) 
winter day, 1936)** 
7 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Chronically III, 
Impaired or Defective 
(Not Available) 
23,000,000 persons*** 
7 
"A major war problem in every community and every industry 
is: How to control sickness, accident, malnutrition, epidemics 
—how, with depleted and over-burdened health personnel con- 
fronted with unparalleled health hazards, to be assured of the 
abounding health and driving power to win the war, care for the 
war injured, and rebuild the National economy." 
*F!gures from American Medical Association. 
**Estimated 1936. See National Health Survey Bulletin I, page I. 
***Estimated 1936. See National Health Survey Bulletin 6, page 12. by WAR’S Problems and Stresses 
1916-18 
1941-42 
1943-44-45 
• 
• 
• 
Expansion of Modern, Scien- 
Infectious and Occupa- 
War Hazards and Needs, 
tific Control over Disease 
tional Diseases and Injuries 
Absence due to Illness, Epi- 
and Injury 
Brought under a Degree of 
demies, Physical Incapacity, 
• 
Control 
and the "Wearing-out" 
• 
Diseases Are Still Major 
Bacteriology 
Problems 
Biologic and Blood Chemistry 
By such means as Blood and 
Chemistry of Drugs 
Dietetics 
Plasma Therapy, "Sulfa" and 
other Chemicals, Sterile Surgery, 
• 
Serums, Vaccines and Antitox- 
Cancer 
Safety Work 
ins, Oxygen Therapy, Safety 
Heart and Circulatory 
Rheumatic-Arthritis 
Engineering, Scientific Diet, Re- 
habilitation, etc. 
Diabetic-Nephritis 
Brain and Nervous 
Poliomyelitis 
Peptic 
Tuberculosis 
Silicosis 
Colds and Respiratory 
Dental and Sensory 
Epidemic 
Deficiency 
Fatigue 
Injury 
Neglect 
War Havoc 
25 years ago, the Scientific 
Method in matters of Health 
and Treatment was just getting 
into the saddle. By research, 
training, cooperation and 
nation-wide health education, 
Health made history's most 
spectacular advances in this 
quarter century. 
The method and "know-how" 
are at hand. Can these advances 
continue under the intensified 
hazards of the War Years? War Program and National Economy RETARDED 
E 
ACCIDENTS.. 
ALL REPORTED INJURIES-U. S.-1941 
9,400,000 PERSONS * 
Fatal Accidents in 1941 were up 6% over 1940. 
Every 5 minutes, one person is killed and 90 injured 
in accidents in the U. S. A., at a total cost of 
$38,000 . . . 
In 1941, there was one accidental death in every 
342 families; one disabling injury in every 4 families; 
and the national cost was $88 per family. 
*National Safety Council, I942 Accident Facts, p. 58, 67 
Figures include some duplication. and IMPERILED by HEALTH DEFICIENCIES 
OCCUPA- 
TIONAL 
Fatal 18.000 
Non-Fatal 1,600,000 * 
Permanent Disability 70,000 
Temporary Total 
Disability 1,500,000 
Fatal 31,500 
Non-Fatal 4,650,000 * 
HOME 
Permanent Disability 130,000 
Temporary Disability 4,500,000 
ACCIDENTAL 
INJURIES 
1941 
MOTOR 
VEHICLE 
Fatal 40,000 
Non-Fatal 1,400,000 • 
Permanent Disability 110,000 
Temporary Disability 1,300,000 
PUBLIC 
(not motor vehicle) 
Fatal 15,000 
Non-Fatal 1,800,000 
Permanent Disability 50,000 
Temporary Disability 1,750,000 
ALL INJURIES 9,400,000 (I in 14 people) 
FATAL 102,500 (I in 1,300 people) 
TOTAL 
NON-FATAL 9,300.000 
Permanent Disability 350,000 
Temporary Disability 8,950,000 
Our Armies may take 10 million men — one in 13 
among us. . . . But already civilian injuries every 
year take I in 141 
War Death, Wounded, Captured and Missing in 
the year following Pearl Harbor took about 55,000 
men. . . . But in the same year, 102,500 died in 
accidents. DISEASE and DISABILITY 
LIIJ 
6 000,000 persons unable to 
work, attend school, or pursue 
other usual activities each win- 
ter day (1935-6), on account of 
illness, injury or gross impair- 
ment resulting from disease or 
accident. 
Disease 
Number of coses (in millions) 
Rheumotism (a) e.eso.oool 
Heart diseases (b) 3,700,000 I 
Arteriosclerosis and high 
blood pressure (c) 3700.0001 
Hay fever and asthma 3,450000 I 
Hernia 27 00000 I 
Hemorrhoids 2,000,0001 
Varicose veins 1790000 I 
Chronic bronchitis 1700,000 I 
Nephritis and other kidney I 
aiseases 1950,000! 
Nervous and mental discases*(d) 1,450,000 I 
Goiter and other thyroid I 
diseases uoo.ooo I 
Sinusitis 1.150,0001 
Cancer and other tumors 930,000 I 
Diseases of female organs (f) 720000! 
Tuberculosis - all forms (g> 680,0001 
Diabetes mellitus eegoool 
Diseases of gallbladder 
and liver (n) 6400001 
Other, diseases of the, I 
crcuwtory system (j) 44Qpoo I 
Chronic tonsillitis and other 5 
fhroot affections (e) 300000 I 
Ulcers of stomach I 
and duodenum 330000 I 
Diseases of bladder and urethra 2700001 
Chronic diseases of the skin (i) 220,0001 
Anemia 24opoo I 
Chronic appendicitis itqpoo I 
Chronic diseases of the eye (I) 190000i 
Chronic diseases of the ear (k) 100,0001 
Chronic pleurisy 900001 
Diseases of the prostate and eoooo I 
mole genito-urmory organs ' 
What is the Cost of Illness and 
Disability? Nobody knows. 
Figures over lap. D isabled 
people can sometimes work. 
People with acute disease 
can carry on. But these 
estimates, based on wide- 
spread surveys, indicate a 
slowing down of war effort as 
gigantic as if 5-10% or more 
of the U. S. were occupied by 
enemy forces. 
Estimates based upon 
National Health Survey of 
some 800,000 families in 83 
cities and 23 rural areas in 
winter (1935-36), by the Na- 
tional Institute of Health, 
U. S. Public Health Service. 
Fig I - ESTIMATED PREVALENCE OF SPECIFIED CHRONIC DISEASES IN 
THE UNITED STATES (1937)* * 
♦National Health Survey, Bulletin I, page 3. 
♦♦Gallup Poll Survey. 
♦♦♦National Health Survey, Bulletin 6, page 12. 
♦♦♦♦National Health Survey, Bulletin 6, page 3-4. The $10,000,000,000 TAX NOBODY GETS 
480,000,000 Man Days Lost from War 
Work, sufficient to produce:* 
WHAT DOES IT 
COST ANNUALLY 
in Time and Money? 
TIME 
—23,000 Heavy Bombers or 
— I 15,000 Fighter Planes or 
—300,000 Light Tanks or 
—580 Destroyers or 
—59 Battleshios 
ACCIDENT 
COSTS 
Wage loss, $1,950,000,000 
Medical Expense, $300,000,000 
Estimated Total Direct Costs, 
$4,000,000,000 
CASH 
Almost 1,000,000,000 Person Days (All Ages) Lost per year Due to 
Chronic Disease, Total or Partial Impairments and Defects, 
6-8 days Chronic and Impairment Absence for every Male 
Worker per year. 
10-11 days Chronic and Impairment Absence for every Female 
Worker per year. 
Fatigue and Under-Par Condition slowing down the War Efforts 
of Millions. 
DISEASE AND 
DISABILITY 
COSTS 
The Present and Prospec- 
tive Burden of Disease 
and Injury — in Man 
Power, Days and Dollars 
Lost . . . would in a few 
years go far to Pay the 
Cost of the War. 
all basic materials, assembly 
and construction. Figures from 1942 
Accident Facts, p. 59, published by 
National Safety Council, Inc. 
$ 10,000,000,000 or More Direct and Indirect Cost to our 
National Economy; Death, Disability and Impairment 
of Babies, Youth, Mothers, Workers, Older 
People . . . 
Burdens of Care and Expense on Family, Community, 
Industry, Business, Insurance, Government, and 
Taxpayers. 
A Drag of perhaps 10% on America's War Effort. 
TOTAL COSTS and now 
WAR Tightens the STRAIN 
on Civilian Health 
m 
Industrial 
Pace and 
Strain 
Increasing 
Food, Fuel, Trans- 
port and other 
Health Conditions 
Deteriorating 
GENERAL 
CONDITIONS 
All Living 
Standards 
Declining 
Larger Percentage 
of Family 
Heads 
Working 
Births for 
1943 Estimated 
up to 3,000,000 
with attendant 
Medical-Health 
problems 
FAMILY 
and HOME 
CONDITIONS 
Home Care, 
Fatigue, Morale, 
Discipline Present 
Serious New 
Problems 
Occupational 
Disease and 
Injury Hazards 
Increasing 
Living and Sanitary 
Conditions in 
War Communities 
Topsy-Turvy 
Workers under 
Strain, Under- 
nourished, Insistent 
and Critical 
WAR LABOR 
CONDITIONS 
WAR 
HAZARDS 
Sabotage and 
War Raid 
Threats 
Always Present 
Epidemic Poten- 
tials in Both 
Civilian and War 
Conditions 
Nation Faces the 
Gigantic Health 
Problem of Caring 
for and Salvaging 
the War's Sick, 
Injured and Impaired 
as They Return from 
War Fronts. 
For this War of Health on the Home Front, our Civilian 
and Industrial Population Face the Need for a Period of 
"Commando" Self-Training, Education and Conditioning. E 
HEALTH FORCES!'!., 
SERIOUSLY DEPLETED 
42,000 of our 180,000 available doctors 
now in Armed Services 
57,000 (total) to be called before 1944 
An important percentage (censored) of 
our 77,000 Dentists already in Armed 
Services 
I n 
PERSONNEL 
An important percentage (censored) of 
our 289,000 Nurses already in War 
Service 
MEDICAL 
AND 
HOSPITAL 
SHORTAGES 
CAUSED BY 
THE 
WAR 
Similar conditions as regards Dietitians, 
Hospital Workers, Health Workers. 
New Plants, Equipment and Personnel 
Greatly Restricted. 
I n 
FACILITIES 
New Equipment tor Existing Hospitals 
Severely Rationed 
Many Medicines and Drugs under Ration- 
ing to the Vast Worldwide Priorities of 
War Need. 
The Forces of Health are 
more, rather than less, seri- 
ously affected by war than 
average civilians. In Admiral 
King's phrase, the War of 
Health definitely presents the 
grave problem of “less butter 
to spread more bread." To Meet this CRITICAL 
With the Cooperation of 
THE HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL 
on Community, Industrial and Individual Health 
General Chair man 
Dr. James S. McLester, 
Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama, 
Birmingham, Alabama 
Committee on Community Health 
Committee on Industrial Health 
Committee on Individual Health 
Dr. W. G. Smillie, Chairman, 
Cornell Medical College, 
New York City. 
Dr. J. Burns Amberson, 
Bellevue Hospital, 
New York City. 
Dr. Harry Bakwin, 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, 
New York University, 
New York City. 
Mr. Bailey Burritt, President, 
Neighborhood Health Development, 
Inc., 
New York City. 
Dr. George R. Cowgill, 
Associate Professor of Physiologi- 
cal Chemistry, 
Yale University School of Medi- 
cine, 
New Haven, Conn. 
Dr. George Kosmak, 
President, American Gynecological 
Society, 
New York City. 
Dr. Ernest L. Stebbins, 
Commissioner of Health, 
New York City. 
Dr. Felix J. Underwood, 
State Health Officer, 
Jackson, Mississippi. 
Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, 
Division of Hygiene and Public 
Health, 
University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
Dr. Paul White, President, 
American Heart Association, 
Massachusetts General Hospital, 
Boston. 
Dr. Leverett D. Bristol, Chairman, 
Health Director, 
Am. Telephone & Telegraph Co., 
New York City. 
Dr. Harvey Bartle, 
Chief Medical Examiner, 
Pennsylvania Railroad, 
Philadelphia. 
Mr. J. Dewey Dorsett, Manager, 
Casualty Department, 
Assn, of Casualty & Surety Exec. 
New York City. 
Professor Philip Drinker, Ph.D. 
Harvard University 
School of Public Health, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dr. Leroy Gardner, Member Board 
of Directors, 
National Tuberculosis Association, 
Saranac Lake, New York. 
G. W. Hardy, Jr., 
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. 
Chicago. 
Dr. Anthony Lanza, Chief, 
Occupational Hygiene Section, 
Office of Surgeon General, U. S. A. 
Washington, D. C. 
Dr. William Alfred Sawyer, Medi- 
cal Director, 
Eastman Kodak Company, 
Rochester, New York. 
Dr. Loyal A. Shoudy, 
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 
Bethlehem, Pa, 
Dr. Harry E. Ungerleider, 
Assistant Medical Director, 
Equitable Life Assurance Society, 
New York City. 
Dr. J. J. Wittmer, 
Medical and Personnel Director, 
Consolidated Edison Company, 
New York City. 
Dr. James E. Paullin, Chairman, 
Professor of Medicine, 
Emory University, 
Atlanta, Georgia. 
Dr. Alfred Blalock, 
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 
Baltimore. 
Dr. Arthur F. Chace, President, 
New York Academy of Medicine, 
New York City. 
Dr. Joseph C. Doane, 
Professor of Clinical Medicine, 
Temple University, 
Philadelphia. 
Dr. Louis Hamman, 
Baltimore. 
Miss Marion G. Howell, R.N., Presi- 
dent, 
National Organization for Public 
Health Nursing, 
New York City. 
Dr. H. M. Marvin, 
Associate Clinical Professor of 
Medicine, 
Yale University School of Medi- 
cine, 
New Haven, Conn. 
Dr. George Morris Piersol, 
Professor of Medicine, 
University of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia. 
Dr. Russell Wilder, 
Mayo Clinic, 
Rochester, Minnesota. 
Dr. Wallace M.Yater, 
Professor of Medicine, 
Georgetown University, 
Washington, D. C. 
cine, WAR HEALTH SITUATION 
To round out and Implement 
other Programs of Health Edu- 
cation and Incentive. 
The U. S. Chamber, with 
the cooperation of its 
business membership and 
of health, commercial, in- 
dustrial, and trade or- 
ganizations from coast to 
coast, has developed a 
program of Community, 
Industrial and Individual 
Health, directed toward 
the Nationwide Fam- 
ily-by-Family HEALTH 
Education of the Ameri- 
can people... A Pro- 
gram Designed...... 
To Win the Active Cooperation 
of the Public with the Local 
Forces of Health. 
To Reduce Sickness, Disability, 
Absence and Under-Par Condi- 
tion among Workers. 
To Vitalize War Work at Full 
Individual Capacity. 
To Make Available to Every 
Community a Local Health Edu- 
cation Program so Economical 
that Every Family May Receive 
It—So Simple, Interesting and 
Easily Read that Most People 
will Read It. 
To Arouse Every Possible Family 
and Person to the Importance 
and Value of Good Health. 
To Help and Encourage Every- 
one to Get Fit and Keep Fit. 
Familiarity with H.alth Pro- worl.r aod hi. family, 
grams—Federal, State, Safety, The present program seeks (I) 
Hospital, Insurance, School, and fo simplify, unify and encourage 
other — indicates that in all Community-wide Health Work, 
cases the essential and needed and (2) to reach every worker 
element is community-wide, con- and family consistently with 
tinuous, popular Health Educa- sound, interesting and helpful 
tion and Incentive for the aver- Health materials. 
To Reduce the 
TEN BILLION 
DOLLAR TAX 
nobody THE PROGRAM 
Consists of 
Regular UNITS 
which combine 
wide influence 
with LOW COST 3 
A Regular Publication for the 
Average Worker and Family 
A "reader's health digest" of 
the most interesting and signifi- 
cant health material which re- 
search, professional and other 
groups are developing to arouse 
Health - consciousness and 
Health - Safety Cooperation 
among workers and citizens. 
Short, readable articles and dra- 
matic illustrations.can be read in 
10 minutes. Approaches health 
from the individual and family 
viewpoint. 
Attacks the great "bottlenecks" 
of the health problem, the health 
causes of absence from work, 
the seasonal and occupational 
hazards to health and methods 
of community cooperation in 
making your city a better place 
to live. 
Its stories are newsy, profes- 
sionally correct and coopera- 
tive. They combine science, 
human interest, the urge to 
health and the how of keeping 
fit or taking prompt action when 
illness threatens. 
Available in standard quantities 
of each issue, for distribution 
by Member Organizations of 
the U. S. Chamber or other 
affiliated business and industrial 
groups. 
10 MINUTES for HEALTH 
Y°" °HAMB“ °r COMMERCE 
your city 
date MORE MILLIONS OF CIRCULATION 
a 
"KEEP FIT" POSTERS 
To be displayed regularly at pedestrian and worker 
"cross-roads". . . making millions of contacts and 
spreading the Inspiration to Health—the invitation to 
get and read "TEN MINUTES FOR HEALTH." 
JOIN the HOME FRONT 
Newspaper Releases . . . 
One release for every week ... for editorial use 
by your local newspapers. 
Stilting that every true American is eager to help with war 
..ark or any other really important task thrt will bring Vic- 
tory more quickly, Mr. of 
title hospital 
(time and place), outlined three definite ways in which civil- 
ians can actually help the cause of health at the front and 
behind tho lines. 
Use of blooo end plasm-. in warfare is nor recognizee as of 
enormous importance in lifesaving one recovery from shock, 
wounds, bums, eik mrny other conditions. To meet this need 
on* a worldwide front, the Red Cross quota has been increased 
to 3,000,000 pints of blood for the coating year—over 50,000 
pints per week. V.hen the call comes for blooc aonors, if you 
are in good condition and cceptable, here is a chance for you 
to serve America—perhaps save a life. The process is not 
painful. Co not hesitate to do your part. 
Also, with countless thousands of doctors required by the Armed 
Forces, those who stay behind are heavily burdened, before the 
war is non, it is estimated that 2 out of every 5 uoctors nay 
be called into wo* service. Obviously those who remain in the 
coimnunity will be burdened beyonc human capacity. You one I 
can help by adhering to these simple rules: 
Don't go to the hospital unless it is really necessary. 
When you do, ask your doctor to see tha t you ere dis- 
charged as soon as your condition permits. 
For routine matters visit your ooctor ct his office 
and keep the appointment to the minute. 
In this way tho doctor's attention, encrgi.s, and the 
hospital accommodations will be available for those FOR HEALTH FACTS AND HELPS 
PERSONAL md RADIO TALKS 
One for each week—for personal delivery by 
your speakers over local radio stations... also 
at schools, clubs, meetings of workers, and 
wherever suitable. 
Community, Industrial and Individual 
HEALTH BULLETIN 
51 
And to Make Your Community 
Health Program More Effective . .. 
In each regular shipment, your organiza- 
tion will also receive a special Bulletin 
of suggestions and directions to assist 
your group in making the Health pro- 
gram more effective. 
Th is Bulletin will digest Facts from the 
work of recognized national hea ith 
organizations, the successful experience 
of other communities and resultful ways 
to use the materials supplied. 
THE HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL 
of the 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
OF THE UNITED STATES 
Washington, I>. C. "E Pluribus Unum77 
DEMOCRACY’S WAV TO HEALTH 
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS 
Regulation • Sanitation • Prevention 
Safety 
Health Surveys and Statistic* 
Red Cross and Public 
Health Nursing and Nurse 
Training Services 
Entry and Salvage Work 
of Medical Examiners for 
Armed Forces 
COMMUNITY 
HEALTH EDUCATION 
Sponsored by The Chamber of 
Commerce of the United States 
and Your Chamber of Com- 
merce or other community 
Business-Industrial Group, tying 
together and facilitating the 
efforts of all local Health Forces 
Civilian Defense and 
Emergency Services 
Industrial and other 
Organization Doctors and 
Nurses 
Physical Examinations 
Working Conditions 
First Aid 
War Work 
Absences due to Health 
Life Insurance 
Examination and Health 
Work 
Directed to 
The Community as a Unit, 
The Worker and his Family, 
Mother and Child, 
Young People, 
Rejected Draft-Age Men, 
The Elderly 
School Nurse and 
Physical Education 
Programs 
Automobile and other 
Accident'lnsurance 
Safety Work 
PURPOSES 
To arouse the Individual Will- 
to-Health. 
To Guide the Worker's Efforts 
to Build up Health and Min- 
imize Defects or Disabilities. 
To Reduce Absences from 
Health-Accident Causes. 
To Increase Individual Vigor 
and Efficiency. 
To Reduce the Cost of Illness 
and Accident. 
To Help All America Get Fit 
and Keep Fit. 
Special Groups 
Cancer 
Heart 
Tuberculosis 
Syphilis 
Industrial Hygiene 
Occupational Diseases, 
Etc. 
Families make up Communities . . . 
Communities make up the Nation 
For permanent progress in Na- 
tional Health, each Unit Com- 
munity must be brought up to 
the higher standard of Health, 
Immunity, Sanitation, Safety and 
Vitality. 
Already the official and profes- 
sional forces are working to- 
gether toward this end. 
COMMUNITY HOSPITALS 
Physicians and Surgeons 
c. rr n . Research and 
Staff Doctors , L . Nurses 
Laboratory 
The present program seeks to 
make every industry, worker, 
mother and family actively 
health-conscious and coopera- 
tive. 
INPATIENTS • OUTPATIENTS • GENERAL PUBLIC 
Diagnosis 
First Aid 
Medicine 
Surgery 
Obstetrics 
Dietetics 
Child Health 
Old Age 
"No community can continue 
half well and half diseased." HOW YOUR COMMUNITY MAY PARTICIPATE 
IN THIS WAR-TIME HEALTH PROGRAM 
All member organizations and affiliates of the U. S. Cham- 
ber—and any other properly qualified communities, industries 
or groups—are invited to help extend the influence of this 
program. 
The plan is simple, economical and easy to apply. Its appli- 
cation makes all workers and citizens more alert, informed and 
cooperative on health issues. This is the American way, by which 
popular support is assured for the common good. No compar- 
able investment can possibly yield as great returns in commu- 
nity and national welfare. Health—dominant, "contagious" 
health—Is basic. 
Will you join with us? Then simply fill in the brief form 
attached. On receipt of it, we will send you all essential details 
—as to coverage, proper use, cost—and the interesting merit 
awards to be made to ail who use the program effectively. 
THE HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL 
ON COMMUNITY, INDUSTRIAL AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH 
of the 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES 
Washington, D. C. ON WAR’S HOME FRONT 
A major war problem faced by every 
American community and Industry Is: 
how to control sickness, accident, mal- 
nutrition, epidemics—how, with depleted 
and over-burdened health personnel con- 
fronted with unparalleled health hazards, 
to be assured of the abounding health 
and driving power to win the war. 
One important principle in dealing 
with the problems of health In any com- 
munity or industry is to Interest the 
individual citizen or worker in getting fit 
and keeping fit. 
THOMAS PARRAN, Surgeon General 
United States Public Health Service