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plicants are not infected with syphilis in a communi-
cable stage. Premarital blood tests would be made
without charge by the State Board of Health or could
be made by approved private laboratories.

II. Legislation to Control Cancer:

Purpose: Cancer, during the last ten years, has
moved into and maintained consistently, second place
as a cause of death in Kansas, taking an average of
more than 2,000 lives each year. Much can be done
to bring this disease under control. It is believed by
authorities in cancer that approximately fifty per cent
of all cancer deaths can be prevented. In Kansas this
would mean an annual saving of more than a thousand
lives each year. In the last twenty years cancer
deaths have increased 63 per cent. We want to stop
this rising trend and prevent needless sufferimg and
death.

What the law would do: The proposed bill is an act
to promote the prevention and cure of cancer; to au-
thorize the State Board of Health to establish a Divi-
sion of Cancer Control; to collect statistics on cancer ;
to develop necessary programs in order to reduce the
morbidity and mortality from cancer; and to co-
operate with interested agencies in the development
and expansion of resources within the state, necessary
to the prevention and cure of cancer. It also provides
in Section IV that not more than $15,000 per annum
for the first biennium shall be appropriated for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act.

III. Industrial Hygiene Legislation:

Purpose: For many years the State Board of Health
has co-operated with industries, local labor groups and
the State Labor Department, to a limited extent, in
the elimination of industrial hazards. With industrial
expansion in Kansas, requests for assistance by both
management and labor have increased to the point
where trained full-time personnel are needed to pro-
vide such services. Occupational health hazards have
been the cause of a great loss in time and money to
industry, labor, and the state through compensation
claims. Approximately, half of our analyzations, up
to the present time, have revealed that dangerous con-
centrations of hazardous substances existed in the vari-
ous industrial processes in which samples were taken.
In practically all cases, reeommended preventive meas-
ures have eliminated or brought the existing hazard
under control.

What the law would do: Establish within the State
Board of Health a Division of Industrial Hygiene. It