§ 65. Dr. Summerskillasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what steps she is taking to prevent the development of cancer of the skin among those using oils at work.
§ Mr. DellMy Department is looking into the reasons for variations in the incidence of skin cancer in an attempt to identify its exact cause. We are successfully encouraging the use of oils32W numbers form of the school leavers in each yearly age group respectively.
§ Mr. Edward Short: The following table gives the approximate number of young men aged between 15 and 18 at 31st December 1967 whose intended destination on leaving school was full-time further education, together with the corresponding percentages of all leavers during the academic year 1967–68, the latest year for which such figures are available.
The total numbers of young men aged 18 and under at 31st December 1967 attending full-time and part-time courses of further education in England and Wales in the academic year 1967-68 were as follows:
which the Medical Research Council advise us are significantly less hazardous and we are publicising among work-people information about the nature of the risk and the precautions they can take.