Medicine: Deadly Wall Street

SCIENCE

C. E. Curtis, Vice President of the Bank of America, and Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Medical Director of the Life Extension Institute, agree that the banking institutions of Wall Street are breeding-places for tuberculosis, anemia and other disease conditions among their women employees. There is not a bank in the "Street" that is not supporting one or more tuberculous employees in hospitals or sanitariums, says Mr. Curtis. The rapid, artificial, neurasthenic life; the poor physical standards of clerical workers; unhygienic clothes; the feminist cigarette are among the culprits blamed for these conditions. The Federal Reserve Bank has an efficient medical department with six nurses and five doctors, and provides six months' leave on salary for employees who need it. Other banks are reticent, but admit the presence of the problem.