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American Conference on Industrial Health.  —The American Conference on Industrial Health, under the auspices of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, will hold its second annual meeting on November 5 and 6, at the Chicago Towers, Chicago.The opening session will be a symposium on the technical problems of industrial health, based on the assumption that supervision of health in industry involves two great principles: (1) the adjustment of the working environment to the employee, and (2) the adjustment of the employee to the working environment, which includes the human environment.In the afternoon a symposium on the economics of industrial health will include discussions of (1) the organization and the cost of a health service, and (2) the value of an industrial health service to the employer, to the employee and to the public.On the morning of the second day a symposium on the social implications