3 A.D.2d 875 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1957
Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant is a nurse who attributes tuberculosis which she has contracted to infection in the course of employment as a student in a hospital. She relies for the establishment of her claim mainly on contacts with “tubercular patients”. She said there were “about five that I can remember ”. These apparently include the two patients in the hospital whom she identified and testified “had tuberculosis”. One was a man who underwent surgery and concerning whom she testified, that when he came back from surgery “ they found he had t. b. and they put him in Isolation [ward or room] and I took care of him in Isolation ”. The other patient was a woman described as “an alcoholic” and “they thought” she had “possible t. b.”. After a few days “ they put her in Isolation and I took care of her before Isolation and in