Key legal question
Whether the appellant’s occupational dermatitis still qualified as an occupational disease after symptoms had largely disappeared.
Extracted holding
Yes. A workplace-induced sensitization or allergy remains an occupational disease even if acute symptoms subside, if the sensitization itself was caused predominantly by work exposure.
Extracted reasoning
The court distinguished a mere predisposition from a work-caused hypersensitivity. Here the appellant had been sensitized by occupational exposure to cement-related substances, so remission of visible symptoms did not extinguish the occupational disease.