Chap. 244.-An ACT to amend and reenact Section 2-g of the Virginia Work-
men’s Compensation Act, which section relates to a schedule of occupational
diseases and which was added to the said Act by Chapter 77 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1944, {H 412]

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That section two-g of the Virginia Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Act be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2-g. Schedule of occupational diseases.—The following
diseases and conditions shall be deemed to be “occupational dis-
eases”, and even they shall not be so considered unless they are in
fact occupational within the meaning of the definition “occupational
disease” as defined in this law: (1) Anthrax; (2) Asbestosis; (3)
Cataract of eyes due to exposure to heat and glare of molten glass
or to radiant rays such as infra-red; (4) Compressed air illness;
(5) Conjunctivitis or retinitis due to exposure to radiant rays;
(6) Cellulitis; (7) Dermatitis; (8) Epitheliomatous cancer or
ulceration of the skin or of the corneal surface of the eye due to
pitch, tar, soot, bitumen, anthracene, paraffin, mineral oil, or their
compounds, products or residues; (9) Glanders; (10) Infection or
inflammation of the skin or eyes, or other external contact surfaces
or oral or nasal cavities due to irritating oil, cutting compounds,
chemical dust, liquid fumes, gases or vapors; (11) Infections or
contagious diseases contracted in the course of employment in or in
immediate connection with a hospital or sanitarium in which per-
sons suffering from such diseases are cared for and treated; (12)
Poisoning by (i) Ammonia; (ii) Arsenic; (iii) Benzol or derivatives
of benzene; (iv) Brass; (v) Cadmium; (vi) Carbon bisulphide or
any sulphide; (vii) Carbon dioxide; (viii) Carbon monoxide; (ix)
Carbon tetrachloride or other toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons or
toxic halogenated hydrocarbons; (x) Chlorine; (xi) Cyanide; (xii)
Dinitrophenol; (xiii) Formaldehyde and its preparations; (xiv)
Hydro-chloric acid; (xv) Hydrofluoric acid; (xvi) Hydrogen sul-
phide; (xvii) Lead; (xviii) Manganese; (xix) Mercury; (xx) Men-
thanol (wood alcohol); (xxi) Methyl chloride; (xxii) Nickel car-
bony]; (xxiii) Nitrous fumes; (xxiv) Nitric acid; (xxv) Petroleum
or petroleum products; (xxvi) Phosphorus; (xxvii) Sulphur diox-
ide; (xxviii) Sulphuric Acid ; (xxix) Tetrachlor-methane or any sub-
stances used as or in conjunction with a solvent for acetate of
cellulose or nitrocellulose; (xxx) Turpentine; (xxxi) Zinc; (13)
Radium disability or disability due to exposure to radio-active
substances and X-Rays; (14) Pneumoconiosis; (15) Ulceration
due to chrome compound or to caustic chemical, acids or alkalies,
and undulant fever caused by the industrial slaughtering and pro-
cessing of livestock and the handling of hides.

2. This act shall be effective on and after July one, nineteen
hundred forty-eight.