Original scientific paper
Causes of invalidity in railwaymen
Kazimir Modrić
; Ministarstvo socijalnog staranja NRH, Zagreb
Abstract
The author classified .statistically 352 cases of invalidity among railwaymen and the employees of the State Railways. They were examined at the Institute of Social· Insurance in connection with their claim for invalid pension. They were divided into 6 categories according to their work: rail workers, skilled workers, train staff, station staff and unskilled workers and employees. Their average age was 52.5 years: the lowest (50.04) among station personnel and the highest (53.8) among rail workers. Slightly over one quarter of the railwaymen (27.8%) were under 50. In the majority of cases the cause of invalidity were degenerative changes in the cardiovascular system complicated by chronical disorders of the respiratory organs. Pulmonary tuberculosis ranked third with 8.52% of the cases - predominantly of the fibrocaseose-cavernous form. Tuberculosis is the most considerable cause of invalidity among younger insureds. Rheumatism as the only cause of invalidity existed in altogether 7.4%, but it resulted from the analysis of all rheumatic rnanifestations that it represented an important factor, especially among rail workers and station personnel diseases of the gastrointestinal tract occur fairly often among railwaymen and play a noticeable part in invalidity. Gastroduodenal ulcers are particularly frequent (6.23% while there were 5.39% resections of the stomach because of ulcers) especially among rail workers and station personnel. Connected with the high rate of digestion disorders were no doubt general enfeeblement, exhaustion, cachexia and premature ageing. On the basis of the analysis of the whole material the author concludes that it would be necessary to shorten the duration of employment of administrative employees and lower the age limit necessary for a full old age pension.
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188202
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Publication date:
28.6.1951.
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