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further provides for personnel which would promote
and carry out a state-wide program of industrial hy-
giene. A section of the bill provides for an appro-
priation of $10,000 annually to carry out the provisions
of the act.

IV. Legislation for Flour and Bread En-
richment:

Purpose: To provide for the public, in general, an
additional source of vitamins and minerals essential for
a good nutritional status. Applied to bread, “enriched”
means white: bread which, in addition to other nutrients
present in ordinary bread, supplies definite amounts
of iron, and of thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin (all
three of which, are important members of the vitamin
B complex). Enrichment is the practical application
of nutrition knowledge to improve the general health
of people.

What the law would do: This act, pertaining to
public health, provides for the enrichment of flour and
bread by the addition of certain vitamins and min-
erals; provides for regulations prescribing standards
and methods of enrichment; and fixing penalties for
violation of same.

V. Immunization and Vaccination Law:

Purpose: To wipe out diphtheria and smallpox in
Kansas, as other states have done, by passage of a
similar law. Every case of illness and death from
these diseases is unnecessary: The threat of serious
epidemics, always an existing hazard in an unprotected
population, can be removed by vaccinating a large
percentage of children against smallpox and immuniz-
ing them against diphtheria.

What the law would do: Require vaccination against
‘smallpox in children attending public and private
schools, day nurseries, and nursery schools; require
immunization against diphtheria for all children less
than twelve years of age entering such schools. The
bill contains a waiver for those objecting because of
religious beliefs and provides for reporting the im-
munity status of pupils by school authorities.

VI. Legislation to Safeguard Poisoning
from Insecticides:

Purpose: ‘There have been a number of needless
deaths in Kansas from the accidental use of insecti-
cides in foods. It is believed that mistaken identity,
due largely to the physical properties of the poison
resembling flour, can be eliminated by requiring the
coloring of certain insecticides.