ART. 27] HEALTH——FACTORIES. 397

show the results of the inspection of such premises and must be dated
and signed in ink by the inspector responsible therefor. If the Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics and Information ascertain that such room
or apartment is free from infectious, contagious or communicable dis-
ease and is in proper sanitary condition he shall grant a license per-
mitting the use of such room or apartment for the purpose of manufac-
turing and stating the number of persons allowed to work therein. An
inspection of each licensed tenement or dwelling house workshop shall
be made not less than once in every six months to determine whether
or not the conditions under which such license was granted and all laws
relating to such premises are being complied with.

No articles shall be manufactured in whole or in part, altered, re-
paired or finished in any room or apartment of a tenement or dwelling
house where there is or has been a case of infectious, contagious or com-
municable disease until such time as the local department or board of
health shall certify to the Bureau of Statistics and Information that
such disease has terminated and that the room or apartment has been
properly disinfected, if disinfection after such disease is required by
law or by the rules and regulations of such department or board. No
person, firm or corporation shall hire, employ or contract with any
person to manufacture in whole or in part, alter, repair or finish any
articles in any room or apartment of any tenement or dwelling house
unless a license has been issued therefor as aforesaid. No room or apart-
ment in any tenement or dwelling house shall be used for the manu-
facture in whole or in part, altering, repairing or finishing of any
articles except by the immediate members of the family living therein,
which shall be limited to a husband and wife, their children or the
children of either. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling,
house shall be used for the manufacture in whole or in part, altering,
repairing or finishing of any articles unless such room or apartment,
contain at least five hundred cubic feet of air space for every person
working therein.

Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the employment of a
tailor or seamstress by any person or family for the purpose of making,
altering, repairing or finishing any article of wearing apparel for the
use of such person or family. This section shall not apply to any work-
shop on the main or ground floor of any tenement or dwelling house,
which is not used for sleeping or cooking, which has a separate entrance
to the street and which is entirely separate from the rest of the building.

1904, art, 27, sec. 246. 1894, ch. 302, sec. 149B. 1914, ch. 779, sec. 246.
269. No person, firm or corporation shall work in, or hire, or
employ any person to work in any loft, workshop or factory in any
building whatsoever at making in whole or in part any articles of cloth-
ing, hats, gloves, furs, feathers, artificial flowers, purses, cigars or ciga-
rettes, without a license therefor from the Chief of the Bureau of Stat-
istics and Information stating the maximum number of persons allowed,
to be employed therein.