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LAWS'OF PENNSYLVANIA, 3. Findingsonspch other medical facts as appear warranted by toe.^videnee. Copy of report . The'board shall:mail a copy of such report and- find to claimant. ings: to the .elauhaht; add to. the employer or his, their, or its insturers,' within five (5).-days from the date of the.filing:'thereof; Autopsy. . (d) 'The medical board shall order ah autopsy to be. made upon the decedent for the purpose' of examination and teiitsto determihe the cause of death when it'deems such an autopsy to be necessary to determine the eanse of'death. Finding* of (e) The reports and findings of the medical board ' medical -board. shall:, be conclusive, except that, upon appeal to the courts, the courts may inquire into, the question whether the findings were based,on sufficient, competent, evidence. . Befoul 'of claimant-to nibalt to examina (f) All the proceedings for compensation shall he suspended upon the. refusal of .a claimant or claimants tion. to submit to.such clinical, pathological.and Roentgen examinations-as may be ordered-.by the medical board. Refusal to per mit. autopsy In den(li In death eases^'m the event that a claimant or elabhants shall' refuse, to permit an sutopgy to be made-upon .the body of the decedent when ordered by themedical, board, no compensation-shall be-payable, and claim; therefor fi:jo*' shall be disallowed: by tire board! Benrlnsn public. Seetion 421: All -hearings before -the board or pne or more members thereof, or/befpre the medical, board, or before a referee,.shall be. public. Board. reforoea, or raodleml-l>o*rd not bound by . Seetion 422. The board, its members, the referees, and the medical- board shall.not be.boundby the techni Si}-- too'anlcel rules of orldenee. ' cal rules of evidence in-conducting hearings and- investi- gations,but all findings, of fact shall, bebased only upon sufficient, Competent evidence to justify tiiem. Testimony or deposition any be taken' within or .outside the Commonwealth. If any party ,or witness rciiaea outside of the Com monwealth, or through illness or. other cause is unable to testify, before the board, a referee;, or the -medical board, his or her testimony or deposition* may be taken, within or without this Commonwealth, in sueh . manner and in sueh form as the hoard may, by special order or Hospital records. general .rule, prescribe. The records, kept by a-hospital of the medical or surgical treatment given to an employe in such, hospital, shall be admissible as-evidence of the medical and surgical matters stated therein, but shall not be conclusive proof of such .matters. Appeal to board Seetion 423. Any party in interest may, within from the referee's decision. twenty days after, notice of a referee's award or dis allowance of. compensation shall have been served upon him, take an appeal to the boarg on the.ground: (1) that the award or disallowance of compensation is not ixi W-' conformity with the terms of this act,'or that the referee if committed any other error of law; (2) that.the findings of fact and award or disallowance of compensation was * 'dlnwtlUon" in the origin*]. j:i S&fKH: <' t'-;.