Workmen’s Compensation Statistics for the year 1937 Together with a note on the working of the Workmen’s Compensation Act 1923

2. The table below shows for each year since the Act came into force the total number of cases included In Statement I and the total amount of compensation paid :— Total number of cases. [...] Increases both in the nuniber of cases reported and the amount of compenstion paid were registered in Baluchistan Bombay the Central Provinces and Berar Madras the North-West Frontier Province Orissa and Sind. [...] In Bengal the Calcutta Claims Bureau as the rpresentative of the largest number of insured employers continued to render assistance in the speedy disposal of claims against employers insured by them. [...] The percentage of contested cases to the total number of cases diposed of by Commissioners was 55.8 as compared with 59.4 in the previous year. [...] 9. Section 35 of the Act was amended so as to permit the transfer abroad of distribution proceedings where the employer does not object and the dpendents are in a country other than the one in which compensation has been deposited.3 The following employments were added to Schedule II of the Act by Notfications under section 2 (3) :- (i) Persons employed otherwise than in a clerical capacit