asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he has read the article on Weil's disease, published by the Department of Agriculture in the Farm Bulletin of March 1962, in which it is stated that roughly one out of every two rats is capable of transmitting the disease to humans, that one out of every two infected humans will die, that in the ten years 1951 to 1960, inclusive, there were one hundred and forty-seven cases identified as Weil's disease, of which eighty-two were fatal, and that farm workers appear in the list of cases; and if he will immediately prescribe this disease as an industrial disease for the purposes of the Workmen's Compensation Acts in the form set out at Disease No. 21 (a) and (b) on page 30 of Cmd. 416 of April 1958.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Weil's Disease.
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I have read the article in question and I am having enquiries made as to the desirability of extending the schedule of industrial diseases under the Workmen's Compensation Acts to include the diseases mentioned at No. 21 (a) and (b) of the document to which the Deputy refers.