INDUSTRIAL DERMATOSES: A REPORT BY THE COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL DERMATOSES OF THE SECTION ON DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
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In the presentation of this report to the fourth Annual Congress on Industrial Health it seems appropriate to describe in a few words the organization and program of the Committee on Industrial Dermatoses. In the several years preceding 1936 there had been an increasing interest in the cutaneous manifestations arising from occupational exposures, and a need for a central clearing house of information on this subject had become more and more apparent. Therefore, at the meeting of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association in 1936 a committee of five dermatologists interested in the subject was created. Shortly after this meeting a similar committee was formed in the American Dermatological Association and a small sum appropriated for expenses. Having common interest in these diseases due to occupational factors, members of the two committees have jointly carried out the original intent of cooperative consideration of industrial dermatologic