MINERS' DISEASE.
DEFECTIVE ILLUMINATION. EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION. {United Press Association.) SYDNEY, March in. Giving r-idonec on occupational diseases before the Royal Commission on the safe working, ventilation and lighting of coal mines in New South Wales," Doctor Allen, of Newcastle, said that for some years he had had many oases of nystagmus under his care it was an occupational disease of the nervous system, confined to workers in ccal mines. Anyone who examined the conditions under winch the miners worked could not. help coming to the conclusion that defective illumination was the sole cause of the disease. The oil safety lamp was fir behind others in illumination. A n'aKod Hsht was easily the best, am in naked light mines practically no .nystagmus existed. The disease was 'not incurable.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16748, 15 March 1926, Page 5
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128MINERS' DISEASE. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16748, 15 March 1926, Page 5
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