Lewis v. St. Charles Parish Hospital District

BEER, Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellee, Anna Mae Lewis, a twenty-five year old mother of three young children, was employed by the housekeeping department of Defendant-Appellant, St. Charles Parish Hospital Service District, d/b/a St. Charles Hospital, in February of 1973.

Her duties as maid in the housekeeping department consisted primarily of cleaning *844the various rooms and hallways of the hospital. She made use of a certain phenolic detergent germicide which, she alleges, has caused depigmentation of the skin of both hands particularly the dorsum of the fingers and the distal portion of the hands in…