On the petition of Raymond S. Hulbert, we review a partial permanent disability award granted him by the Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board. In the proceedings the board received in evidence reports of five medical examiners, three of whom appear to have been engaged by the self-insured employer and two by Hulbert. The board, however, caused a doctor from its own medical bureau to examine Hulbert. This occasional pain, traceable to the 1951 incident, the witness opined, caused Hulbert a 25 percent permanent disability, even before his 1971 injury. The record fairly discloses that Hulbert had long since been rehabilitated with respect to the disability attending his 1951 laminectomy.

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