ART. 27] HEALTH——WORKSHOPS AND FACTORIES. 861

free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuis-
ance; and no factory, manufacturing establishment or work-
shop shall be so overcrowded while work is carried on therein
as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed
therein; and every such factory, manufacturing establishment
or work-shop shall be well and sufficiently lighted and venti-
lated in such a manner as to render harmless, as far as practi-
cable, all the gases, vapors, dust or other impurities generated
in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried
on therein, which may be injurious to health.

1888, art. 27, sec. 149. 1884, ch. 265. sec. 2.

244. Any person, firm or corporation managing or conduct-
ing any factory, manufacturing establishment or work-shop in
this State, who shall neglect any of the requirements of the
preceding section, or do or permit to be done in the factory,
manufacturing establishment or work-shop conducted or man-
aged by him, her, them or it, any act contrary to the provisions
of said section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction,
be fined one hundred and fifty dollars for each offense so
committed.

Health—Workshops and Factories—Sweating System.

1894, ch. 302, sec. 149 A. 1896, ch. 467.

245. If any individual or body corporate engaged in the
manufacture or sale of clothing or of any other article whereby
disease may be transmitted shall with reasonable means of
knowledge, by purchase, contract or otherwise, directly or indi-
rectly, cause or permit any garments, or other such articles as
aforesaid, to be manufactured or made up, in whole or in part,
or any work to be done thereupon within this State and in a
place or under circumstances involving danger to the public
health, such individual or corporation, upon conviction in any
court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not less than ten
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each garment
manufactured, made up or worked upon.

Ibid. sec. 149 B.

246. If any individual or the officer of any corporation
shall so as aforesaid cause or permit any garment or other
articles in the next preceding section mentioned to be manu-
factured, made up or worked upon in a place or under circum-