Kerr, Lorin E., 1909-
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Lorin E. Kerr received a B.A. from the University of Toledo in 1931 and an M.D. (1935) and a M.S.P.H. (1939) from the University of Michigan. He worked for the U.S. Public Health Service from 1944 until 1948, when he began working for the Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers. Kerr was the founder and first director of the U.M.W.A.'s Department of Occupational Health and was influential in the passage of legislation to compensate coal miners suffering from black lung disease.
From the description of Lorin Edgar Kerr papers, 1941-1981 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702167276
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Subjects:
- Coal miners and mining
- Environmental health
- Industrial safety
- Labor and laboring classes
- Labor unions
- Labor unions and public health
- Lung
- Medicaid
- Medical care
- Medicine
- Occupational diseases
- Old age pensions
- Public health
- Retirement income
Occupations:
- Health officers
- Physicians
Places:
- Washington, D.C (as recorded)
