LEAD POISONING
BROKEN HILL INQUIRY. QUESTION OF COMPENSATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright(Received June 28, 9.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 27. Tho Technical Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the occurrence of industrial diseases in the Broken Hill mines submitted a report to the Government after medically examining all persons employed in the mines there. The report states that a chemical analyses of the lungs removed from dead miners had shown the presence of lead, zinc, manganese and silicon whenever the men had worked for over ten years in the Broken Hill mines. The commission recommends that poisoning by lead be made a notifiable disease, and that compensation be paid weekly to all men certified by medical authority to be suffering from any ailment due to lead, and that when an employee is excluded from an industry through disabilities caused by lead the. company should pay him compensation to enable him to obtain a near occupation.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 6
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