Morbidity of port apprentices is analysed in the course of 9 years (1968/69 to 1976/77) by comparison; analysed were 1033 girls educated to be freight controllers, and 1652 boys educated in the same period in a vocational training to become port expert workers. Characteristics relevant for statements regarding disablement morbidity of both groups of test persons - relative disease frequency, average duration of disablement and morbidity - are represented differentially according to year of vocational training, kind of training (normal education and vocational training with leaving certificate examination), years of apprenticeship as well as group of diagnosis. Of aggrevating influence for rate of morbidity is primarily the extremely high disablement frequency of the apprentices with more than 200 cases/100 test persons on an average, whereby frequency of disablement due to severe colds, making up more than half of all medically attested cases of disablement, is especially striking. The girls trained for becoming freight controllers are more frequently and longer disabled; they show a morbidity of 0.71% above that of the male port expert worker apprentices. In addition to work induced influence factors connected with vocational training affecting the increase of apprentice morbidity, factors must be discussed which characterize the faction, general work climate, especially work and vocational satisfaction.
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