CHAPTER 381

An Act for the relief of Bradley M. Self.
[(S 48]

Approved March 30, 1960

Whereas, Bradley M. Self, Rt. No. 2, Montross, Westmoreland County,
on January 15, 1944, was appointed Chief Forest Warden for Westmore-
land County; and

Whereas, on September 28, 1954, Mr. Self, while fighting a forest fire,
injured his lower right leg, which on October 11, 1954, became infected to
the extent he was under the care of Dr. Thomas R. Travis, of the St.
Francis Clinic, Montross, until November 1, 1954, and then was under the
care of his family physician, Dr. C. Y. Griffith, Mt. Holly, Virginia; and

Whereas, Mr. Self and the Division of Forestry did submit on
October 14, 1954, Form 3, Employer’s First Report of Accident, to the
State Industrial Commission and to Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Com-
pany; an

Whereas, on October 14, 1959, Mr. Self became a patient at St.
Luke’s Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, due to the old leg injury and other
illness, at which time the physicians determined his recurrent leg infection
was cancerous and dating back to the September 28, 1954, injury, in their
opinion, making it necessary to perform an operation on the leg and graft
skin from elsewhere on his body, all of which caused great inconvenience
and pain, and incurred a large medical expense; and

Whereas, both the Insurance carrier and the State Industrial Com-
mission have ruled that due to the statute of limitations, Mr. Self is not
eligible for reimbursement of time lost or medical expenses while in St.
Lukes Hospital, thus affording no relief for medical expenses for this
Forest Warden who was injured while working in the public interest at a
hazardous job, now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. The Director of the Department of Conservation and Economic De-
velopment shall draw a voucher upon the appropriation to such Depart-
ment in favor of Bradley M. Self in the amount of four hundred twenty
dollars and such voucher shall be converted to a check in favor of Bradley
M. Self in the manner prescribed by law, in payment of medical expenses
incurred as the result of a leg injury incurred while fighting a forest fire
on September 28, 1954, in Westmoreland County.