MINERS’ DISEASES.
DANGER FROM POISONING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 28, 9.35 p.m. Sydney, June 27. The Technical Commission inquiry appointed to investigate the occurrence of industrial diseases at 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 analysis of lungs removed from dead miners had shown the presence of lead, zinc, manganese, and silicon whenever men worked over ten years in the Broken Hill mines. The commission recommends that poisoning by lead be made a notifiable disease; 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 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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Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1922, Page 5
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145MINERS’ DISEASES. Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1922, Page 5
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