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Occupational Disease Compensation tor Pennsylvania employes will begin January I, 1938. Pennsylvania will then join 20 other progressive industrial states, including all neighboring states, which provide protection for this kind of injury, Pennsylvania's law specifically names the causes of indus trial disease which may be compensated. It includes Poisoning from: Lead, mercury, arsenic, manganese; phosphorus; methanol, carbon bisulphide, hydro-carbon distil lates, halogenated hydrocarbons; benzol and its nitro, amido or amino derivates; radium, X-ray; chromic acid, bichromate of ammonium, potassium or sodium (compounds are included); Infection from: Tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, paraffin, oils, cutting compounds, lubricants, dust, liquids, fumes, gases, vapor, anthrax; Injury from: Asbestosis, silicosis or anthraco - silicosis (miners asthma); caisson disease (compressed air illness). This law is an addition to the Workmen's Compensation ' law which will provide increased benefits beginning Janu/ ary I, 1938, $12 to $18 per week and more adequate medical allowance. It will be administered by the Work men's Compensation Bureau and Board. Silicosis, anthraco-silicosis and asbestosis will not be com pensable for temporary or partial disability; employers liability may not exceed $3600 in any one case. Those limi tations do not apply to the other industrial diseases named. The cost will bear more heavily on the industries having the greatest industrial disease hazards in the same way that compensation for other injuries bears more heavily on in dustries with large numbers of accidents. It is the natural and fair extension of the principle that injury to employes is a cost of business operation. STATES WITH OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE COMPENSATION LAWS JUl T 1,19 17 1 Massachusetts 2 Rhode Island 3 Connecticut 4 Now York 5 New Jersey 6 Pennsylvania 7 Delaware 8 District of Columbia 9 North Carolina 10 West Virginia 11 Ohio 12 Michigan 13 Indiana 14 Kentucky 15 Illinois 16 Wisconsin 17 Minnesota 18 Missouri 19 North Dakota 20 Nebraska 21 Washington 22 California 9