CEIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1067

fectious, contagious or communicable disease, or the existence of any
unsanitary conditions in or about such room or apartment, the Chief of
said Bureau may, without making an inspection of the premises, deny
such application for a license until such time as the records of the said
department, board or other local authority show that the said premises
are free from all such infectious, contagious or communicable disease and
from all unsanitary conditions. Before, however, any such license is
granted, an inspection of the room or apartment sought to be licensed
must be made by the duly authorized inspector of the Bureau of Statistics
and Information and a statement must be filed in said bureau as a matter
of public record to the effect that the records of the local health depart-
ment or board or other local authority charged with the duty of sani-
tary inspection do not show the existence of any infectious, contagious
or communicable disease or of any unsanitary conditions in or about said
room or apartment. Such statement must further 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 in-
fectious, contagious or communicable disease and is in proper sanitary
condition he shall grant a license permitting the use of such room or
apartment for the purpose of manufacturing and stating the number of
persons allowed to work therein. An inspection of each licensed tene-
ment 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 com-
plied with.

No articles shall be manufactured in whole or in part, altered, repaired
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 communicable
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 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 except by the immediate members of the family
living therein, which shall be limited to a husband and wife, their chil-
dren 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 apart-
ment 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,