But benefit is paid to all, irrespective of age, who have been injured and disabled by accident or industrial disease.
Then the result will be, we hope, almost an elimination of this industrial disease.
I have no information on the incidence of this condition which is not a prescribed industrial disease.
I worked in a factory in 1911 where one of my colleagues died an agonised death from an industrial disease which was not scheduled.
Lastly, industrial disease in some areas has been appalling.
One miner goes down with industrial disease every 2½ hours and one miner from pneumoconiosis every working day.
In 10 years as many as 11,000 deaths will occur either down the pit or from miners coughing up their lungs due to industrial disease.
I remember struggling for the right to get cadmium poison recognised as an industrial disease.
