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The Problem of the Epileptic in Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. E. Graves Peirce
G. E. Graves Peirce*
Affiliation:
London, Midland & Scottish Railway
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In this short paper I hope to present to you some of the problems attendant on the employment of the epileptic. In so doing I shall rely as far as possible on my personal experience of the problem as it has presented itself in my routine work as medical officer for the London district of the L.M.S. Railway, which covers a large area of our system, with some 44,000 workers employed on a wide variety of occupations.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 85 , Issue 358 , September 1939 , pp. 953 - 964
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1939 

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