CASE OF DERMATITIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1943, Page 6

CASE OF DERMATITIS

COMPENSATION AWARDED In April last year a Gazette'notice was published which included dermatitis among the industrial diseases for which compensation is payable by employers, and recently a case came before the Compensation Court pitting in Wellington in which compensation was claimed on this ground. The plaintiff was Monica May Durling. and she was employed by> Alco, Ltd, Wellington, in the manufacture, of gloves. She, with seven other women j workers at the same factory, contracted dermatitis at the beginning of April last year, the disability in her case being much more serious than in ' the others and having persisted until the i present time Through her counsel. Mr R. R Scott she claimed compensation from her employers For the defence. Mr A. B Buxton •ontendeel that ;is th:1 disease was con-•r-K-trd a few dnys before the order was gazetted rhe plaintiff was .not en\:gp.d in an'employment to which the Act applied Mr Justice OT.egan .-lowevsr, held that this argument was un-tenable and that the plaintiff's rights could not be affected by the publication of the Order in Council in the Gazette some days subsequent to the initial appearance of the malady. Accordingly, it followed that she was entitled in the meantime to accrued compensation amounting to £112 10s, 45 weeks at £2 10s a week, and costs. Final judgment as to the total amount of compensation will be given later, when the plaintiff has fully recovered.-