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board may order further medical surgical and hospital services after the end of the six month period, if it is established that further care will result in restoring the disabled employee's earning power to a substantial degree. In each order the board shall specify the maximum period and the maximum costs of the treatment designed for the employee's rehabilitation. The cost of such hospital treatment, service, and supplies, shall not in any case exceed the prevailing charge in the hospital for like services to other individuals. If the employee shall refuse reasonable surgical, medical, and hospital services, medicines, and supplies, tendered to him by his employer, he shall forfeit all rights to compen sation for disability or any increase in his disability shown to have resulted from such refusal Whenever an employee shall have suffered the loss of a limb, part of a limb, or an eye, the employer shall furnish to the employee in addition to the aforementioned surgical and medical services, services rendered by duly licensed practitioners of the healing arts, medicines and supplies, or artificial limb or eye or other prostheset of a type and kind recommended by the doctor attending such employee in connection with such injury as welt os such training as may be required in the proper use of such prostheses. The provisions of this section shall apply to occupational diseases where no loss of earning power occurs.
(g) Should the employee die from some other cause than the occupational disease, the liability for compensation shall cease.
Section 307. In case of death resulting from occupational disease, com
pensation shall be computed on the following basis and distributed to the follow
ing persons, subject to the limitations of section 301:
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1. If there be no widow nor widower entitled to compensation, compensa tion shall be paid to the guardian of the child or children, or if there be no guardian, to such other persons as may be designated by the board as hereinafter provided, as follows:
(a) If there be one child, thirty-two per centum of wages of deceased, but not in excess of nineteen dollars per week.
(b) If there be two children, forty-two per centum of wages of deceased, but not in excess of twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents per week.
(c) IE there be three children, fifty-two per centum of wages of deceased, but not in excess of thirty-two dollars and fifty cents per week.
(d) If there be four children, sixty-two per centum of wages of deceased, but not in excess of thirty-eight dollars per week.
(e) If there be five children, sixty-four per centum of wages of deceased, but not in excess of forty-three dollars per week.
(1) If there be six or more children, sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of wages of deceased, but not in excess of forty-seven dollars and fifty cents per week.
2. To the widow or widower, if there be no children, fifty-one per centum of wages, but not in excess of thirty dollars and fifty cents per week.
* A* amended by Act No, 286, Laws at 2945: Act Ns. 410, Lava at 1949; Aet No. 483, Acta at 1961; Act No. 196,Laws of 1961: Act No. 166. Laws o( 1966; Act 619, Lows of 1959; aad by Act 710, Uvi of 1961, effective November 29, 1966.
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