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A DEPARTMENTAL committee has been appointed by the Home Secretary to inquire and report what diseases and injuries, other than injuries by accident, are due to industrial occupations, are distinguishable as such, and can properly be added to the diseases enumerated in the third schedule of the Workmen's Compensation Bill, 1906, so as to entitle to compensation persons who may be affected thereby. The chairman of the committee is Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., and the members are Prof. Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S., Mr. H. H. Cunynghame, C.B., and Dr. T. M. Legge.

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Notes . Nature 74, 366–371 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074366a0

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