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SEC. 92. No prosecution for a violation of the provisions of the preceding section shall be commenced until four weeks after notice time. in writing by an inspector has been sent by mail to such person, firm or corporation of any changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of said section, nor if such changes shall have been made in accordance with such notice.

SEC. 93. No outside or inside doors of any building in which Doors not to be operatives are employed shall be so locked, bolted or otherwise locked. fastened during the hours of labor as to prevent free egress. The owner, lessee or occupant of any such building shall, five days after receiving notice in writing from an inspector of factories and public buildings, comply with the provisions of this section.

SEC. 94. The belting, shafting, gearing and drums of all factories, if so placed as, in the opinion of the inspectors of factories and public buildings, to be dangerous to employees therein while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall be as far as practicable securely guarded. No machinery except steam engines in a factory shall be cleaned while running if objection in writing is made by one of said inspectors. All factories and workshops shall be well lighted, well ventilated and kept clean, and this requirement shall be enforced by the state inspectors of health.

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SEC. 95. The owner of a cotton factory which shall have been Space erected subsequently to the twenty-eighth day of May in the year traversing chinery. eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in which there is any traversing carriage of a self-acting mule installed, or of any cotton factory erected previously to such date in which hereafter such traversing carriage is installed, who permits such carriage to travel within twelve inches of any pillar, column, pier or fixed structure, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offence.

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SEC. 96. The openings of hoistways, hatchways, elevators and Hoistways, etc., well holes upon every floor of a factory or mercantile or public to be guarded. building shall be protected by sufficient trapdoors or self-closing hatches and safety catches, or such other safeguards as the inspec· tors of factories and public buildings direct; and due diligence shall be used to keep such trapdoors closed at all times, except when in actual use by the occupant of the building who has the use and control of the same.

SEC. 97. If, in the erection of an iron or steel framed building Protection employees the spaces between the girders or floor beams of any floor are buildings. not filled or covered by the permanent construction of said floors before another story is added to the building, a close plank flooring shall be placed and maintained over such spaces, from the time when the beams or girders are placed in position until said permanent construction is applied; but openings, protected by a strong hand railing not less than four feet high, may be left through said floors for the passage of workmen or material. SEC. 98. In the construction of any iron or steel framed building Same. having a clear story of twenty-five feet elevation or more, a staging with a close plank flooring shall be placed under the whole extent of the beams, girders or trusses of such story upon which iron or steel workers are working, and not more than ten feet below the under side of such beams, girders and trusses.

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SEC. 99. Inspectors of factories and public buildings shall enforce the provisions of the two preceding sections, and whoever violates any provision thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for each offence. SEC. 100. Explosive or inflammable compounds shall not be used Explosives, in any factory in such place or manner as to obstruct or render etc., in factories. hazardous the egress of operatives in case of fire.

SEC. 101. Any person, firm or corporation owning, managing or operating factories in this Commonwealth in which looms are employed shall equip the looms with such guards or other devices as will prevent injury to employees from shuttles falling or being thrown from the looms. Such guards or devices shall be made of such material and placed in such manner as shall be approved by the inspection department of the district police, who are hereby

Shuttle guards.

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directed to enforce the provisions of this section. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues.

SEC. 102. The proprietor of every foundry engaged in the casting of iron, brass, steel or other metal, and employing ten or more men, shall establish and maintain, except in cities or towns in which it would be impracticable by reason of the absence of public or private sewerage or of any running water system, a toilet room of suitable size and condition for the men to change their clothes therein, and provided with washbowls, sinks or other suitable set appliances connected with running hot and cold water, and also a water-closet connected with running water and separated from the said toilet room. The said water-closet and toilet room shall be connected directly with the foundry building, properly heated, ventilated and protected, so far as may be reasonably practicable, from the dust of the foundry. Whoever fails to comply with the provisions of this section, after being requested so to do by a State inspector of health, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 103. Suitable receptacles for expectoration shall be provided in all factories and workshops by the proprietors thereof, the same to be of such form and construction and of such number as shall be satisfactory to the board of health of the city or town in which the factory or workshop is situated.

SEC. 104. Every person, firm or corporation operating a factory surgical supplies. or shop in which machinery is used for any manufacturing or other purpose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, shall at all times keep and maintain, free of expense to the employees, such a medical and surgical chest as shall be required by the board of health of the city or town where such machinery is used, containing plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze, and all other necessary medicines, instruments and other appliances for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises. A person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues.

Sweat shops to be licensed.

Manufactures in tenements.

SECTION 106. A room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house shall not be used for the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing therein coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description, except by the members of the family dwelling therein; and a family which desires to make, alter, repair or finish coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description in a room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house shall first procure a license therefor from a State inspector of health, which shall be approved by the State board of health. A license may be applied for by, and issued to, any member of a family which desires to do such work. No person, partnership or corporation shall hire, employ or contract with a member of a family which does not hold a license therefor to make, alter, repair or finish garments or articles of wearing apparel as aforesaid, in any room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house as aforesaid. Every room or apartment in which garments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered, repaired or finished shall be kept in a cleanly condition and shall be subject to the inspection and examination of the State inspectors of health for the purpose of ascertaining whether said room or apartment or said garments or articles of wearing apparel or any parts thereof are clean and free from vermin and from infectious or contagious matter. A room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house which is not used for living or sleeping purposes, and which is not connected with a room or apartment used for living or sleep

ing purposes and which has a separate and distinct entrance from the outside shall not be subject to the provisions of this section, nor shall the provisions of this section prevent the employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person or family for the making of wearing apparel for the use of such person or family. Every person, firm or corporation hiring, employing or contracting with a member of a family holding a license under this section for the making, altering, repairing or finishing of garments or wearing apparel to be done outside the premises of such person, firm or corporation, shall keep a register of the names and addresses Register of employees. plainly written in English of the persons so hired, employed or contracted with, and shall forward a copy of such register once a month to the State board of health.

SEC. 107. If an inspector finds evidence of infectious or con- Infectious dis tagious disease or of vermin present in a workshop or in a room eases, etc. or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house in which garments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered or repaired, or in goods manufactured or in process of manufacture therein, he shall report the same to the State board of health, who shall then notify the local board of health to examine said workshop, room or apartment and the materials used therein; and if the board of health finds that said workshop or tenement or dwelling house is in an unhealthy condition, and that the clothing and materials used therein are unfit for use, it shall issue such orders as the public safety may require.

SEC. 108. Whoever sells or exposes for sale coats, vests, trousers Tag to be af or wearing apparel of any description which have been made in a fixed, when. tenement or dwelling house in which the family dwelling therein has not procured a license, as required by section one hundred and six, shall have affixed to each of said garments a tag or label not less than two inches in length and one inch in width, upon which shall be legibly printed or written the words "tenementmade" and the name of the State and the city or town in which the garment was made.

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SEC. 109. No person shall sell or expose for sale any of said garments without a tag or label as aforesaid affixed thereto, nor ment-made artiwillfully remove, alter or destroy such tag or label upon any of said garments when exposed for sale, nor sell or expose for sale any of said garments with a false or fraudulent label affixed thereto.

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SEC. 110. If it is reported to said inspector or to the State board Inspection of health that ready-made coats, vests, trousers, overcoats or other clothing brought garments are being shipped to this Commonwealth, having been manufactured under unhealthy conditions, said inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture, and if they are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall so report to the state board of health, which shall thereupon make such orders as the public safety may require.

SEC. 111. Whoever violates any of the provisions of the five pre- Violations. ceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

ACTS OF 1910.

CHAPTER 543.—Inspection of factories and workshops-Humidity.

Thermometers

SECTION 1. In every weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein water is introduced for humidifying purposes required. there shall be provided, maintained and kept in correct working order, for the purpose of recording and regulating the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature, at least one set of standardized wet and dry bulb thermometers, and, if required by a State inspector of health, two sets of such thermometers, and the following regulations shall be observed in the use of the thermometers: (a) The thermometers shall be placed as directed or sanc

tioned by a State inspector of health, and shall be plainly visible to the workers. (b) The occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of the weaving or spinning department in question shall read the thermometers thrice in the day, namely, between seven and eight o'clock in the forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon and between three and four o'clock, except in rooms which are lighted by gas, and then between four and five o'clock, in the afternoon of every day on which any persons are employed in any weaving or spinning department, and he shall record the readings of each thermometer in such department at each of the said times upon a form provided for the purpose, which, together with the regulations relating thereto, shall be furnished by the State board of health. The records of the readings shall not be destroyed until they have first been seen by the State inspector of health in whose district the factory is situated, and then not without his knowledge and consent.

SEC. 2. Section one shall not apply to textile factories already equipped with, or which become equipped with, such a number and type of standardized self-registering hygrometers, or psychrometers, or hygrometric system, as meet the approval of the State board of health: Provided, That the manner of using the same is approved by the State inspector of health in whose district the factory is situated: And provided, That the records of the readings from the said hygrometers, or hygrometric system installed, are not destroyed without the knowledge and consent of said inspector. SEC. 3. Section one shall not apply to textile factories the occupier or manager or person in charge of which makes use of the sling hygrometer with the express purpose of quickly and accurately determining the actual moisture and temperature of a weaving or spinning department as frequently and in such a manner as is approved by the State inspector of health in whose district the factory is situated: And provided, That the records of the readings from the use of the said hygrometer are not destroyed without the knowledge and permission of said inspector.

SEC. 4. No owner, occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of a textile factory shall permit the relative humidity in a weaving or spinning department in the textile factory under his control to exceed the following limits:

Pure water to be used.

SEC. 5. Water used for humidifying purposes in a textile factory shall be taken either from a public supply of drinking water, or from some other source of pure water, or from a supply of water which, although in the opinion of the State board of health not

suitable for drinking purposes is sufficiently free from impurities as not to be dangerous to the health of employees when used for humidifying purposes; and all ducts for the introduction or distribution of humidified air shall be kept clean.

SEC. 6. This act shall be enforced by the State inspectors of Enforcement. health under the supervision of the state board of health. Whoever fails to comply with the provisions contained herein after being requested so to do by a State inspector of health shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offence.

ACTS OF 1911.

CHAPTER 584.-Fines of weavers for imperfect work.

SECTION 1. No employer shall impose a fine upon an employee Fines forbidengaged at weaving for imperfections that may arise during the den. process of weaving.

SEC. 2. Any employer who violates the provisions of this act Violations. shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for any subsequent offense.

CHAPTER 603.-Factory regulations-Lighting-Occupational dis

cases.

SECTION 1. The State inspectors of health, or such other officers Investigation. as the State board of health may from time to time appoint, shall, when obtaining information concerning the proper fighting of factories, workshops and other industrial establishments, make such investigation concerning the eye and vision in their relation to diseases of occupation, including injuries to the eyes of the Injuries to eyes. employees, and to the pathological effects which are produced or promoted by the circumstances under which the various occupations are carried on, as, in the opinion of said board is practicable, and the board shall from time to time issue such printed matter containing suggestions to employers and employees for the protection of the eyes of the employees as it may deem advisable.

SEC. 2. If it appears to an inspector of health, or other officer, Changes appointed by said board, that in any factory, workshop or other be required. industrial establishment, from the nature of the work or of the machinery used in connection therewith, or of other circumstances, there is danger of injury to the eyes of employees engaged in such work, and that the danger of injury may be decreased or prevented by any mechanical device or other practicable means, he shall, if said board so directs, order in writing that such device or other means shall be provided therein; and it shall be the duty of the proprietors and managers of the factory, workshop or other industrial establishment to comply with the order.

SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions Violations. of this act shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than two hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues: Provided, however, That a criminal prosecution for any violation hereof shall not be begun unless such person, firm or corporation shall, for a period of four weeks after the receipt of an order in writing from a State inspector of health or other officer, as provided in the preceding section, neglect to comply therewith.

CHAPTER 620.-Inspectors of steam boilers-Appointment.

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SECTION 1. The governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint five additional members of the boiler inspection depart- spectors. ment of the district police, who shall be not above forty-five years Age limit. of age; and this age limit shall apply hereafter to all appointments to the said department. The said five additional members shall be detailed for the inspection of boilers and the examination