78 HEALTH. [ART. 43.

ceding; and provided, further, that in case the registration by
the State board of health shall exceed by 10 per cent., or more
the registration of the local registrar in the corresponding three
months of the year next preceding, the expenses shall be paid
by the local board of health.

Approved March 22, 1906.

Manufacture of Infected Articles.

1906, ch. 358.

84 A. No person, firm or company or corporation shall be
permitted to manufacture in part or in whole, any mattress, bed,
cot, lounge or sofa, [of] wool, shoddies, or shoddies manufactured
from cast-off clothing or other fabric which has previously been
in the use of or worn by any other person or persons. And
all such manufacturers or dealers in mattresses are hereby pro-
hibited from making or offering for sale any such mattress,
bed, cot, lounge or sofa, where wool, shoddies, or shoddies
manufactured from cast-off clothing are used for filling or top-
ping in stuffing the said mattresses, beds, cots, lounges and
sofas.

Ibid.

84 B. Manufacturers of mattresses, and the other articles
mentioned in the foregoing section are hereby required to
sew a label on the exterior of said mattresses and other arti-
cles of manufacture, describing by name each and every mate-
rial used for filling or stuffing purposes, and contained therein.
The said label shall be of linen paper or some other white manu-
factured fabric, shall be in size 2 1/2 x3 inches, and shall have every
article used in the manufacture of said mattress or other article
plainly printed or written in the English language on said label,
so that the purchaser can read the same; and in case said pur-
chaser cannot read, the seller shall read said label to him, and
such label shall be a guarantee of the material used in the
manufacture of the article sold, and shall remain on said mat-
tress when sold and delivered. Any person offending against
the provisions of this sub-title shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction before a justice of the peace
shall be fined for each offense not less than twenty-five nor
more than fifty dollars, and in default of payment be committed