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Twenty percent of these sufferers are receiving disability pensions, 25% are “on the sick-list”.
Floods, Mold, Cancer, and the Politics of Public Health 2009
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How well they came through it appears best from the fact that not one of them was on the sick-list on account of the heat.
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Then he acquainted us with the dialogue that passed between them, as I have already related it: and had no sooner finished this narration than he received a message from the surgeon, to bring the sick-list to the quarter-deck, for the captain had ordered all the patients thither to be reviewed.
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The Bechuanas will keep on the sick-list as long as they feel any weakness; so I at last began to be anxious that they should make a little exertion to get forward on our way.
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CHARLES T. PARSLOE, — I am on the sick-list, and therefore cannot come to Washington; but I have prepared two speeches — one to deliver in event of failure of the play, and the other if successful.
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How well they came through it appears best from the fact that not one of them was on the sick-list on account of the heat.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Our injuries not being sufficiently serious to put either of us in the sick-list, ` Ugly 'and I were sent back, after being lotioned and
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Macdonald took him off the sick-list and he was free to wander again with Colonel Dermot in the forest and among the mountains.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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Rain at this season falls in great quantities; and from imprudence, our crew suffered on their first arrival from colds and rheumatism; but getting more careful, we had latterly no sick-list.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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When I was a clerk myself, I was on the sick-list once for three months, and nobody paid me.
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