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The city of New York will not permit the entry of
uninspected eviscerated poultry, but has agreed to
accept poultry inspected under a system similar to
that which has been provided the meat industry in
Kansas. Inspection is handled by a local veterinarian
who works full time or part-time as may be necessary.
Sanitation is also controlled rigidly. About 3,000,000
pounds of meat are produced in Kansas each month
under this system.

What the law would do: The proposed bill would
permit the board of health to contract with the poul-
try packers and intrastate meat packers and veteri-
narians to provide for the veterinary inspection of
poultry and meats.

X. Hospital Legislation Endorsed.

Legislation now being prepared by the Kansas Hos-
pital Association, and in which you should be inter-
ested, is the proposal to establish standards for general
hospitals available to the public. Kansas, at the pres-
ent time, has no standards regulating hospitals. Such
a law would be beneficial both to hospitals and to the
public. It would insure the best possible hospital
service and facilities for community use and, in turn,
would protect hospital areas from the small converted
dwelling type of hospital, so inadequate and unpre-
pared to give needed hospital services.

Request for Support of the Program

Although the health of the people of Kansas is the
basic structure upon which their happiness and their
social and economic development depend, legislative
appropriations for the administration of a sound and
comprehensive public health program have not been
adequate. Health needs of the people, in order to de-
crease unnecessary sickness and deaths, should be seri-
ously considered in the budgeting of the State’s tax
dollar.

The Kansas State Board of Health needs your sup-
port in providing those health measures so essential to
your well being and that of your family. The legis-
lator representing you in the 1945 legislative session
will want to know how you feel about health matters.

Tue Kansas Strate Boarp or HEALTH.

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