Medicolegal

Abstract

<h3>Workmen's Compensation Acts: Disability Following Administration of Antityphoid Inoculation Compensable. —</h3> The defendant company maintained in its mill a first aid station, with a trained nurse in charge. The nurse, among her other duties, administered antityphoid inoculations to employees. The plaintiff-employee in this case, Smith, suffered a paralysis of his left arm and serious and permanent impairment of his "shoulder and right side, abdomen, and hip," following the third injection of the "serum." He was denied compensation in proceedings brought under the workmen's compensation act of Louisiana and appealed to the court of appeals of Louisiana, second circuit. Smith's right to compensation, said the court of appeals, depends on whether or not the disability following the third injection constituted an accidental injury that arose out of and in the course of his employment. The puncture of the skin with the hypodermic needle and the forcible injection into the system of