BROKEN HILL
MINERS’ HEALTH DANGERS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 27. Ih© Technical Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the occurrences of industrial diseases « u Broken Hill mines has submitted its report to the Government, after medically examining all persons employe in the mines there. The report states that a chemical analysis, of the lungs removed from dead miners had shown the presence of lead, zinc, manganese and silicon, whenever the men had worked over ten years in the Broken Hill mines. The Commission recommends that poisoning by lead bo made a notifiable disease; that compensation bo paid weekly to all men certified by medical authority to be suffering from any ailment due to lead; and that when the employee is excluded from the industry through disabilities caused by lead the company should pay him compensation to enable him to obtain a new occupation.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1922, Page 7
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