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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Claim of Louis Anthony Turitto, Respondent, against St. Mary’s Hospital and The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
   Claimant has an award for the permanent loss of use of the left eye, from which an appeal has been taken. He is a physician and was working as an interne in a hospital, which was his employer. While attending a patient, who had been operated upon and was suffering from an acute C\ C. urethritis, the gonococcus germs got upon claimant’s hand and thence into his eye causing a gonnorheal infection necessitating the enucleation and the resultant total loss of vision. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Crapser, Bliss, Heffernan and Sehenek, JJ.