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of at least one week from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed at the time of the accident."

MASSACHUSETTS

"Part II, § 4. No compensation shall be paid under this act for any injury which does not incapacitate the employé for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages, but if incapacity extends beyond the period of two weeks, compensation shall begin on the fifteenth day after the injury."

MICHIGAN

"Part II, § 3. No compensation shall be paid under this act for any injury which does not incapacitate the employé for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages, but if incapacity extends beyond the period of two weeks, compensation shall begin on the fifteenth day after the injury: Provided, However, That if such disability continues for eight weeks or longer, such compensation shall be computed from the date of the injury."

MINNESOTA

"Part 2, § 17. Waiting period.-No compensation shall be allowed for the first two weeks after injury received, except as provided by Section 18."

NEBRASKA

"Part II, § 19. (When compensation begins.) No compensation shall be allowed for the first fourteen days after disability begins, except as provided in section 20, but if disability extends beyond the period of fourteen days, compensation shall begin on the fifteenth day after the injury; provided, however, that if such disability continues for eight weeks or longer, such compensation shall be computed from the date of the injury."

New York

NEVADA

"8 27. No compensation shall be paid under this Act for an injury which does not incapacitate the employé for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages, but if incapacity extends beyond the period of two weeks, compensation shall begin on the fifteenth day after the injury: Provided, however, that if such disability continues for eight weeks or longer, such compensation shall be computed from the date of the injury."

NEW HAMPSHIRE

"§ 3. *** the employer shall not be liable in respect of any injury which does not disable the workman for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed. ***”

Compensation commences at the end of the second week. § 6 (2).

NEW JERSEY

"§ II,13. No compensation first two weeks. No compensation shall be allowed for the first two weeks after, injury received, except as provided by paragraph fourteen." 1

NEW YORK

"Art. 2. § 12. Compensation not allowed for first two weeks. No compensation shall be allowed for the first fourteen days of disability, except the benefits provided for in section thirteen 2 of this chapter."

'Paragraph fourteen provides for medical and hospital services and medicines for first two weeks not exceeding fifty dollars in value.

Section 13 provides for medical attention, etc., for sixty days without limit as to amount.

Washington

OHIO

"§ 1465-78; § 31 of Act of 1913. No compensation shall be allowed for the first week after the injury is received, except the disbursements hereinafter authorized for medical, nurse and hospital services and medicines, and for funeral expenses."

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OREGON

There is no waiting period under the Oregon Statute.

RHODE ISLAND

"Art. II, § 4. When compensation begins. No compensation except as provided by section 12 of this Article shall be paid under this act for any injury which does not incapacitate the employé for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages, but, if such incapacity extends beyond the period of two weeks, compensation shall begin on the fifteenth day after the injury."

TEXAS

"Part I. § 6. No compensation shall be paid under this Act for an injury which does not incapacitate the employé for a period of at least one week from earning full wages, but if incapacity extends beyond one week, compensation shall begin on the eighth day after injury."

WASHINGTON

There is no waiting period under the Washington statute.

See § 1465-89; § 42 of Act of 1913, allowing $200 for medical attention, etc., and $150 for funeral expenses.

Wisconsin

WEST VIRGINIA

"§ 30. No benefit shall be allowed for one week after the injury is received, except the disbursement provided for in sections twenty-seven 1 and twenty-nine.2

WISCONSIN

"§ 2394-9 (2). If the accident causes disability, an indemnity which shall be payable as wages on the eighth day after the injured employé leaves work as the result of the injury, and weekly thereafter, which weekly indemnity shall be as follows," etc.

"§ 2394-9 (2) (d). The weekly indemnity due on the eighth day after the employé leaves work as the result of the injury may be withheld until the twenty-ninth day after he so leaves work; if recovery from the disability shall then have occurred, such first weekly indemnity shall not be recoverable; if the disability still continues, it shall be added to the weekly indemnity due on said twenty-ninth day and be paid therewith.

"If the period of disability does not last more than one week from the day the employé leaves work as the result of the injury, no indemnity whatever shall be recoverable."

1 Section 27 provides for medical, etc., services not exceeding in value $150.

2 Section 29 provides for funeral expenses not exceeding $75.

CHAPTER IX

MEDICAL ATTENTION

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See § 72 (3), last sentence, in Chapter XI.

CALIFORNIA

"§ 15. Where liability for compensation under this act exists such compensation shall be furnished or paid by the employer and be as provided in the following schedule:

(a) Such medical, surgical and hospital treatment, including nursing, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, crutches and apparatus, as may reasonably be required at the time of the injury and within ninety days thereafter, to cure and relieve from the effects of the injury, the same to be provided by the employer, and in case of his neglect or refusal seasonably to do so, the employer to be liable for the reasonable expense incurred by or on behalf of the employé in providing the same."

The ninety day period during which the employer was required, under the Roseberry Act of 1911, to furnish medical

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