Chmielowski's Case

This is a workmen’s compensation case. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152. It was agreed “that this employee received a left inguinal hernia on Jan. 2, 1937 . . . and that he was operated on and paid compensation for total disability” up to and including March 6, 1937. The present case relates to a later total disability resulting from a right inguinal hernia. The reviewing board found that the employee “did receive a hernia on the right side on Jan. 2, 1937, and that this hernia arose out of and in the course of his employment” as a laborer by the city of Salem, and that by reason thereof the employee…