APPENDIX B. LAWS RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND INSPEC- ALABAMA. CODE OF 1907. Fire escapes on factories, etc. Fire escapes to SECTION 7095. Any owner, proprietor, or manager of any manufacturing building, which is more than two stories high, now be provided. erected, who shall fail for six months after the adoption of this Code to have securely fixed and conveniently arranged so as to be accessible to persons * working in, or occupying such building, in case of fire in such building, good and sufficient fire escapes or ladders for each story of said building, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months, for each day so continued. SEC. 7096. Any owner, proprietor, or manager of any * manufacturing building erected hereafter who shall fail to erect with such building such fire escapes as are required in the preceding section, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months. Inspection of cotton mills, etc. Violation. SECTION 7212. There is created the office of inspector of jails, Inspector. almshouses, cotton mills, or factories; the officer or inspector shall be a practicing physician in good standing, learned in the science of sanitation and hygiene, and shall reside at Montgomery and have an office in the capitol. SEC. 7213. The inspector shall be appointed by the governor and Appointment. shall hold office for a term of four years from the date of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 7214. The salary of the inspector shall be twenty-four hun- Salary. dred dollars annually, and in addition to his salary he shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses, to be paid as the salaries of the State officers are paid. SEC. 7215. The following are the general duties of the inspector: Duties. * (5) To visit at least four times each year, and oftener when ordered by the governor so to do, each and every cotton mill or factory in this State, and to thoroughly inspect the same for the purpose of ascertaining their sanitary condition, the ages and condition of the children employed therein, and all other matters concerning the operation and condition of said mills or factories as to which the laws of this State prescribe any rules or regulations. 1 See Acts of 1909, p. 158; Appendix A, p. 655. Refusing to give information. Inspection. Sanitation. Ventilation. (6) To make reports to the governor of the result of each such Inspection. (7) To institute prosecutions against the owners and operators of such mills or factories for the violation of any of the rules or regulations prescribed by any law of this State relating to the conditions or operations of such mills or factories or the employment of children therein. SEC. 7217. Any sheriff or other keeper of jails or members of commissioners court or board of revenue, or keeper or manager of any almshouse, cotton mill, or factory, or any person or persons charged with the management of any almshouse, cotton mill, or factory who shall willfully refuse or fail to give the inspector the information called for by him, and any such officer or other person who, when summoned by the inspector to come before him and testify concerning any matter upon which the inspector is required to report, shall willfully refuse or fail to attend and testify, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. ARIZONA. ACTS OF 1909. CHAPTER 100.-Laundries-Air space, etc. [See Appendix A, p. 659.] ARKANSAS. ACTS OF 1911. ACT No. 472.-Commissioner of health—Sanitation of factories, etc. SECTION 8. The commissioner [of health] shall have power and authority to investigate the sanitary conditions of schools, mills, mines, railroads, and to prescribe and enforce such measures of sanitation of them as may be deemed advisable. CALIFORNIA. CODES OF 1906-GENERAL LAWS. ACT NO. 1098.-Inspection of factories and workshops. [This act (chapter 5, Acts of 1889) was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the State on account of certain provisions in section 4, and for this reason was omitted from Sims' Edition of the General Laws, and from the Twenty-second Annual Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Labor. The action of the legislature in amending the law, eliminating the invalid provisions, indicates that it is regarded as valid as amended. It is therefore reproduced in full in its amended form.] SECTION 1. Every factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment, in which five or more persons are employed, shall be kept in a cleanly state and free from the effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance, and shall be provided, within reasonable access, with a sufficient number of water-closets or privies for the use of the persons employed therein. Whenever the persons employed as aforesaid are of different sexes, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water-closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, which shall be plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use any water-closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex. SEC. 2. Every factory or workshop in which five or more persons are employed shall be so ventilated while work is carried on therein that the air shall not become so exhausted as to be in jurious to the health of the persons employed therein, and shall also be so ventilated as to render harmless, as far as practicable, all the gases, vapors, dust, or other impurities generated in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried on therein, that may be injurious to health. etc. SEC. 3. No basement, cellar, underground apartment, or other Use of cellars, place which the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics shall condemn as unhealthy and unsuitable, shall be used as a workshop, factory, or place of business in which any person or persons shall be employed. etc., to be in SEC. 4 (as amended by chapter 52, Acts of 1909). In any factory, Fans, blowers, workshop, or other establishment where a work or process is stalled. carried on by which dust, filaments, or injurious gases are produced or generated, that are liable to be inhaled by persons employed therein, the person, firm or corporation, by whose authority the said work or process is carried on, shall cause to be provided and used in said factory, workshop or other establishment, exhaust fans or blowers with pipes and hoods extending therefrom to each machine, contrivance or apparatus by which dust, filaments or injurious gases are produced or generated. The said fans and blowers, and the said pipes and hoods, all to be properly fitted and adjusted, and of power and dimensions sufficient to effectually prevent the dust, filaments, or injurious gases produced or generated by the above said machines, contrivances or apparatuses, from escaping into the atmosphere of the room or rooms of said factory, workshop or other establishment where persons are employed. Seats for female SEC. 5 (as amended by chapter 12, Acts of 1903). Every person, firm, or corporation employing females in any manufacturing, employees. mechanical, or mercantile establishment shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall provide such seats to the number of at least one-third the number of females so employed; and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. SEC. 6 (as amended by chapter 176, Acts of 1901). Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each offense. Violations. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau of Enforcement. labor statistics to enforce the provisions of this act. ACTS OF 1909. CHAPTER 104.-Inspection of factories, etc.-Manufacture of food products. SECTION 1. Every building, room, basement or cellar, occupied, Sanitation reor used as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, quired. slaughterhouse, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market, or other place or apartment, used for the production, preparation for sale, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food, shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, and conducted with strict regard to the influence of such conditions upon the health of the operatives, employees, clerks or other persons therein employed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food therein produced, kept, handled or sold; and for the purpose of this act the term "food" shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, whether simple or compound, and all substances and ingredients used in the preparation thereof. SEC. 2. The floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, Floors, utensils, utensils, implements and machinery of every establishment or etc., to be clean. Construction of place where food is manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed, shall at no time be kept in an unclean, unhealthful or unsanitary condition; and for the purposes of this act, unclean, unhealthful and unsanitary conditions shall be deemed to exist if food in the process of manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, sale or distribution is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt, unsanitary conditions, and as far as may be necessary, by all reasonable means from all other foreign or injurious contamination; and if the refuse, dirt, and the waste products subject to decomposition and fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling and distributing of food, are not removed daily; and if all trucks, trays, boxes, baskets, buckets, and other receptacles, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, shelves, and all knives, saws, cleavers, and all other utensils, receptacles, and machinery, used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning, and all other processes used in the preparation of food, are not thoroughly cleaned daily; and if the clothing of operatives, employees, clerks, and other persons therein employed, is unclean, or if they dress or undress, or leave or store their clothing therein. SEC. 3. The side walls and ceilings of every bakery, confecwalls and ceilings. tionery, hotel and restaurant kitchen, shall be well plastered, or ceiled, with metal or lumber, or shall be oil painted or kept well limewashed, or otherwise kept in a good sanitary condition and all interior woodwork of every bakery, confectionery, hotel and restaurant kitchen, shall be kept well oiled or painted with oil paint, and be kept washed clean with soap and water or otherwise kept in a good sanitary condition; and every building, room, basement or cellar, occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of food, shall have an impermeable floor, made of cement or tile laid in cement, brick, wood or other suitable, nonabsorbent material which can be flushed and washed clean with water. Floors. Screens. Toilet etc. SEC. 4. The doors, windows and other openings of every food producing or distributing establishment, where practicable, shall be fitted with stationary or self-closing screen doors and wire window screens, of not coarser than fourteen-mesh wire gauze. rooms, SEC. 5. Every building, room, basement or cellar, occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, canning, sale or distribution of food, shall have convenient toilet or toilet rooms, separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, manufacture, packing, canning, selling or distributing, is conducted. The floors of such toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile laid in cement, wood, brick or other nonabsorbent material, and shall be washed and scoured daily. Such toilets shall be furnished with separate ventilating pipes or flues, discharging into soil pipes, or on the outside of the building in which they are situated. Lavatories and wash rooms shall be adjacent to toilet rooms, and shall be supplied with soap, running water and towels, and shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Operatives, employees, clerks and all persons who handle the material from which food is prepared, or the finished product, before beginning work and immediately after visiting a toilet or lavatory shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly in clean water. Cuspidors. Sleeping in workrooms. SEC. 6. Cuspidors, for the use of operatives, employees, clerks and other persons, shall be provided, and each cuspidor shall be emptied and washed out daily with disinfectant solution and not less than five ounces of such solution shall be left in each cuspidor while in use. No operative, employee, clerk or other person, shall expectorate or discharge any substance from his nose or or mouth, on the floor or interior side wall of any building, room, basement, or cellar where the production, manufacture, packing, storing, preparation or sale of any food product is conducted. SEC. 7. No person shall be allowed to, nor shall he, reside or sleep in any room of a bake shop, public dining room, hotel or restaurant kitchen, confectionery, or other place where food is prepared, produced, manufactured, served or sold. infectious SEC. 8. No employer shall require, permit or suffer any person Contagious to work, nor shall any person work, in a building, room, basement, cases. cellar, place or vehicle, occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of food, who is afflicted or affected with any venereal disease, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuberculosis, consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, trachoma, typhoid fever, epidemic dysentery, measles, mumps, German measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, or any other infectious or contagious disease. or dis SEC. 9. The members of the State board of health, inspectors Enforcement. and agents appointed by said board, and all local health officers and inspectors, shall have full power at all times to enter every building, room, basement, cellar, or any place occupied or used, or suspected of being occupied or used, for the production, manufacture, preparation, storage, sale or distribution of food, and to inspect the premises and all utensils, implements, receptacles, fixtures, furniture and machinery used as aforesaid, and if, upon inspection, any such building, room, basement, cellar, or any such place, vehicle, employer, operative, employee, clerk, driver, or other person, is found to be in violation or violating any of the provisions of this act, or if the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, sale or distribution of food is being conducted in a manner detrimental to the health of the employees or operatives or to the character or quality of the food therein being produced, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, distributed or conveyed, the officer or inspector making the examination shall at once make a written report of the same to the district attorney of the county who shall prosecute all persons violating any of the provisions of this act, and also to the State board of health. The State board of health, from time to time, as in its discretion it may determine, may publish such reports in its monthly bulletin. SEC. 10. All buildings, rooms, basements, cellars, and other What are nuiplaces and things, kept, maintained or operated, or which are, in sances. violation of the provisions of this act or any of them, and all food produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, kept, sold, distributed or transported, in violation of the provisions of this act or any of them, are hereby declared to be public nuisances, dangerous to health. Such nuisances may be abated or enjoined, in an action brought for that purpose by the local or State board of health, or they may be summarily abated in the manner provided by law for the summary abatement of public nuisances dangerous to health. SEC. 11. Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal Violations. or agent, employer or employee, who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day that conditions or actions, in violation of this act, shall continue, shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense, and for each offense, upon conviction, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fines and imprisonment. COLORADO. REVISED STATUTES-1908. Inspection of steam boilers. SECTION 6309 (as amended by chapter 86, Acts of 1911). The Inspectors. governor of the State of Colorado shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, on or before April 1, 1911, appoint one chief and three deputies, inspectors of steam boilers. The person so appointed shall be well qualified from practical experi |