Claim of Esperson v. Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital

Appeal by employer and its insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant worked at intervals at the Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital over a span of eight years, leaving each time for personal reasons. Appellant hospital periodically X-rayed claimant after she came in contact during her earlier periods of employment with patients who were subsequently transferred because of their tubercular condition. She began her last period of employment on Octoher 15, 1954, and left work on October 20, 1954, upon discovery of her tubercular condition. A…