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Article 2. —Each member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this convention undertakes to consider as occupational diseases those diseases and poisonings produced by the substances set forth in the schedule appended hereto, when such diseases or such poisonings affect workers engaged in the trades or industries placed opposite in the said schedule, and result from occupation in an undertaking covered by the said national legislation. Schedule. List of Diseases and Toxic Substances. List of Corresponding Industries and Processes. Poisoning by lead, its alioys or compounds Handling of ore containing lead, including line shot in zinc-factories, and their sequelae Casting of old zinc and lead in ingots. Manufacture of articles made of cast lead or of lead alloys. Employment in the polygraphic industries. Manufacture of lead compounds. Manufacture and repair of electric accumulators. " Preparation and use of enamels containing lead. Polishing by means of lead files or putty powder with a lead content. All painting operations involving the preparation and manipulation of coating substances, cements, or colouring substances containing lead pigments. Poisoning by mercury, its amalgams and Handling of mercury-ore. compounds and their sequelae Manufacture of mercury compounds. Manufacture of measuring and laboratory apparatus. Preparation of raw material for the hatmaking industry. Hot gilding. Use of mercury-pumps in the manufacture of incandescent lamps. Manufacture of fulminate of mercury primers. Anthrax infection .. .. .. Work in connection with animals infected with anthrax. Handling of animal carcases or parts of such carcases, including hides, hoofs, and horns. Loading and unloading or transport of merchandise. Article 3. —The formal ratifications of this convention under the conditions set forth in Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles and in the corresponding parts of the other Treaties of Peace shall be communicated to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for registration. Article 4.—This convention shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered by the Secretary-General. It shall be binding only upon those members whose ratifications have been registered with the Secretariat. Thereafter, the convention shall come into force for any member at the date on which its ratification has been registered with the Secretariat. Article 5. —As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered with the Secretariat, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall so notify all the members of the International Labour Organization. He shall likewise notify them of the registration of ratifications which may be communicated subsequently by other members of the Organization. Article 6.—Subject to the provisions of Article 4, each member which ratifies this convention agrees to bring the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 into operation not later than Ist January, 1927, and to take such action as may be necessary to make these provisions effective. Article 7.—Each member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this convention engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions, and protectorates, in accordance with the provisions of Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles and of the corresponding Articles of the other Treaties of Peace. Article 8. —A member which has ratified this convention may denounce it after the expiration of five years from the date on which the convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered with the Secretariat. Article 9.—At least once in ten years, the governing body of the International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this convention, and shall consider the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision or modification. Article 10.—The French and English texts of this convention shall both be authentic. The foregoing is the authentic text of the draft convention duly adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization during its seventh session, which was held at Geneva and declared closed the 10th day of June, 1925. In faith whereof we have appended our signatures this 24th day of June, 1925. The President of the Conference : Dr. Edvard Benes. The Director of the International Labour Office : Albert Thomas. RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES. The General Conference of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations, having been convened at Geneva by the governing body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its seventh session on 19th May, 1925, and having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to workmen's compensation for occupational diseases, which is included in the first item of the agenda of the session, and having determined that these proposals should take the form of a recommendation, adopts, this tenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, the following recommendation, to be submitted to the members of the International Labour Organiza-