'252 ARTICLE 43.

Infectious Diseases—Small Pox.

54.

Employees with communicable diseases are prohibited in laundries—see art.
54A, sec. 4.

62.

This section referred to in upholding use of public funds for erection or main-
tenance of hospital controlled by private agency. Finan v. Cumberland, 154 Md
564.

Manufacture and/or Sale of Mattresses, etc.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 64. 1924, ch. 370. 1927, ch. 202.

64. (A). The word "mattress" shall mean any quilted pad, mattress,
mattress pad, mattress protector, bunk quilt, or box spring, stuffed or filled
with excelsior, straw, hay, grass, corn husks, moss, fibre, cotton, wool, hair,
jute, kapok, or other soft material, to be used on a couch or other bed for
sleeping purposes.

The words "Pillows, " "bolster, " or "feather bed" shall mean any bag,
case, or covering made of cotton or other textile material, and stuffed or
filled with excelsior, straw, hay, grass, corn husks, moss, fibre, cotton, wool,
hair, jute, feathers, feather down, kapok, or other soft material, to be used
on a bed or other article for sleeping purposes.

The word "comfortable" shall mean any cover, quilt, or quilted article
made of cotton or other textile material, and stuffed of filled with fibre,
cotton, wool, hair, jute, feathers, feather down, kapok, or other soft mate-
rial.

The word "new, " as used in this Section 64, shall mean any material or
article which has not been previously manufactured or used for any pur-
pose.

The word "second-hand" shall mean any material or article of which
prior use has been made.

The word "shoddy" shall mean any material which has been spun into
yarn, knit or woven into fabric, and subsequently cut up, torn up, broken
up, or ground up.

The word "person, " as used herein, shall include persons, corporations,
co-partnerships, and associations.

Words used in the singular number shall include the plural; and the
plural, the singular.

(B). No person shall employ or use in the making or renovating of any
mattress, pillow, bolster, feather-bed or comfortable (a) any material
known as "shoddy" or any fabric or material from which shoddy is con-
structed; (b) any second-hand material; (c) any new or second-hand
feathers, unless such shoddy, second-hand material or new or second-hand
feathers have been sterilized and disinfected by a reasonable process ap-
proved by the Director of Health.

(C). Any person engaged in the making, re-making or renovating of
any mattress, pillow, bolster or comfortable in which second-hand material
is used, or in the making of any new or second-hand feather or down filled