Abstract
According to the source regarding industrial physicians in Fukuoka Prefecture published in 1980, 522 establishments in the city of Kitakyushu employ industrial physicians. We discussed, in this report, the characteristics regarding the administrative district (Moji, Kokura-kita, Kokura-minami, Wakamatsu, Yahata-higashi, Yahata-nishi, Tobata), size (persons engaged) and industry (major groups) of the above 522 establishments. In the private establishments employing 50 or more persons the proportion of those employing industrial physicians to the whole is 39.1% in the city of Kitakyushu. The proportion of the former to the latter is 27.3% in construction, 60.3% in manufacturing and 46.7% in transport and communication. Regarding the geographic relation between establishments and industrial physicians employed, in most cases establishments employ Industrial physicians living and/or working in the same district. Among the 199 industrial physicians in the Kitakyushu Medical Association those employed by only one establishment are 126 persons (63.3%) and those employed by 5 or more are 22 persons (11.1%). In establishments employing 500 or more persons the ratio of physicians listing surgery as their main speciality to those listing internal medicine is very small. But in establishments employing 50-499 persons whose industry is manufacturing or transport and communication, the ratio of members listing the former to those listing the latter in class A (physicians paying full dues including those being employed) is relatively large.
