TY - JOUR T1 - AUstralia Y1 - 1929/11/09 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1929.02710190061025 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 1489 EP - 1490 VL - 93 IS - 19 N2 - Australasian Medical Congress (British Medical Association)  (Concluded from page 1401)SILICOSISDuring the discussion at the meeting of the section of preventive medicine which followed the reading of a paper on "Silicosis and Tuberculosis" by Dr. Keith R. Moore of Canberra, Dr. Cumpston related some of his observations in silicosis. He concluded by saying that the important matter to decide from the point of view of public health was the stage at which a man became so silicotic that his condition was compensable.Prof. H. G. Chapman of Sydney University said that he had had experience with Broken Hill miners, and it was his opinion that when a person suffering from simple silicosis could be diagnosed as susceptible to tuberculosis he was entitled to compensation.Professor Chapman went on to say that he did not agree with those schemes of compensation that required a man to be taken out of SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02710190061025 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710190061025 ER -