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charged with the duty of sanitary 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
Commissioner of Labor and Statistics ascertain that such room or apart-
ment is free from infectious, 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
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, 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 Commissioner of Labor and Statistics 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,
altering, repairing or finishing any article of wearing apparel for the use
of such person or family. This section shall not apply to any workshop 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 302. 1912, sec. 269. 1904, sec. 246. 1894, ch. 302, sec. 149B.

1914, ch. 779, sec. 246.

372. 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 what-
soever at making in whole or in part any articles of clothing, hats, gloves,
furs, feathers, artificial flowers, purses, cigars or cigarettes, without a
license therefor from the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics stating
the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed therein.

Application for such license shall be made to the chief of the Bureau of
Statistics and Information upon blanks to be prepared and furnished by
him. Such application shall state the location, street and number of the