Some types of industrial disease can be excluded on the grounds that they are specific for a particular industrial hazard.
Again, the amount the child will benefit will be dependent upon how his father died; whether from an industrial accident or an industrial disease.
The fallacy is that people who have an industrial disease necessarily die of it.
There are appeal boards on all other questions of accidents or industrial disease, but not against the decision of the pneumoconiosis board.
In the past 15 years particularly the question of accidents and industrial disease has been debated many times.
It was one of a possible industrial disease which might or might not have arisen from our negligence in a factory.
It is only very slowly that we have recognised that incapacity through industrial disease disables our workmen just as much as injuries do.
I remember struggling for the right to get cadmium poison recognised as an industrial disease.
