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MEDICOLEGAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS 827 certain types. The remaining twenty-four states have not yet recognized in their laws that an employer is liable for the diseases workmen contract as the result of the conditions of their employment. Only nine of the states with com pensation laws for occupational diseases have general or blanket coverage laws, which cover any diseases that can be shown to be of occupational origin, and therefore all types of occupational and accidental industrial neoplasia (as of January 1, 1939) [California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, In diana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, and Wisconsin (Sappington; Waters; Foerster; and Koontz) ]. Delaware, Kentucky, Michi gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, and Washington have so-called schedule cover age laws, which apply to a varying number of specifically named occupational diseases, and include only a restricted number of occupational tumors or none at all, depending on the type of laws enacted in the different states. Some of the states of this group have limited the applicability of the compensation laws still more by naming the. type of operation or occupation from which the given industrial disease must arise to be compensable (Newquist). The substances which upon an occupational exposure may cause cancers, as well as the states in which such occupational neoplasms are included in the schedule coverage, are presented in the following list: List of Carcinogenic Substances and States with Schedule Coverage Laws Covering Diseases Caused by These Agents Substances: Arsenic Asbestos Benezene, its homologues and derivatives Tar, pitch, bitumen, min eral oil, paraffin, and any compound, product, or residue of any of these substances Nickelcarbonyl Radium-Mesothorium Roentgen-rays Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington North Carolina and Pennsylvania Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington Michigan, Minnesota, and Rhode Island Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Minnesota, and Rhode Island Michigan, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Rhode Island The compensation laws in force in other countries mention the following substances, which may be the cause of neoplastic diseases (International Labour Conference, 18th Session, Rep. V):