Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire and report whether the folowing diseases can properly be added to those enumerated in the third schedule of the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 : namely (1) cowpox, (2) Dupruyten's Contraction, (3) clonic spasm of the eyelids, apart from nystagmus, (4) writer's cramp.

  • Great Britain. Home Office. Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire and report whether the folowing diseases can properly be added to those enumerated in the third schedule of the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 : namely (1) cowpox, (2) Dupruyten's Contraction, (3) clonic spasm of the eyelids, apart from nystagmus, (4) writer's cramp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a INDUSTRIAL DISEASES. TERMS OF REFERENCE. I hereby appoint :— Mr. ELLIS: J. GRIEFIDEGSC 6. oye Pe Under ee of State for the Home De anent: Sir THOMAS CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University ; His Honour JUDGE ALFRED HENRY RUEGG, K.C.; and THOMAS MORISON LEGGE, Esq., M.D., Medical Inspector of Factories ; to be a Committee to inquire and report whether the following diseases can properly be added to those enumerated in the Third Schedule of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1906, viz.: (1) Cowpox; (2) Dupuytren’s Contraction ; (3) Clonic Spasm of the Eyelids, apart from Nystagmus. And I further appoint Mr. Ellis Griffith to be Chairman and Mr. Alexander Maxwell,* of the Home Office, to be meso of the Committee. Whitehall, (Erlegn, REGINALD McKENNA. 12th April 1912. D haere) rn vs bs, By letter, dated 19th October 1912, the Secretary of State requested the Committee to inquire also concerning Writers’ Cramp. * On 16th May 1912, Mr. Arthur Locke was appointed Secretary in place of Mr. Alexander Maxwell, resigned. ' aictomies WELLCC i Coll weiMOmec