1152 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

(c) Every building, room, basement, cellar or other place
occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing,
canning, sale or distribution of food, shall have convenient
toilet or toilet rooms which shall be kept separate or partitioned
from the room or rooms where the process of production, manu-
facture, packing, canning, selling or distribution is conducted,
and the floor and all parts of such toilet room shall be kept clean.

(d) No person or persons shall sleep in any work-room of
a bakeshop, creamery, cheese factory, milk plant or distributing
dairy, ice-cream plant or in the kitchen, dining-room or food
storage room of any hotel, restaurant or boarding-house.

(e) No employer shall knowingly require, permit or suffer
any person to work, nor shall any person knowingly work in
any building, room, basement, cellar or vehicle or any other
place occupied or used for the production, preparation, manu-
facture, packing, storage, sale, collection, distribution and trans-
portation of food, who is affected with any venereal disease,
smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuberculosis
or consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, tra-
choma, typhoid fever, epidemic dysentery, measles, mumps,
German measles, whooping cough, chicken-pox or any other in-
fectious or contagious diseases, unless a person so affected shall
produce a certificate from the State Board of Health granting
him or her permission to work or be employed as aforesaid.

(f) Every building, basement, cellar or other place occupied
or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, canning, sale
or distribution of food, shall have a convenient lavatory and
shall be supplied with soap, water and towels maintained in a
sanitary condition.

All persons, firms, or corporations, operating canning factor-
ies affected by this Act, shall be subject to the following addi-
tional rules and regulations, which are hereby made the law of
this State:

(g) All rooms in which fruits, vegetables, or by-products
thereof are packed and preserved, and in which manufacturing
is actually carried on, shall be provided with smooth, water-
tight floors, made of concrete or wood, which can be properly
cleansed, except when the factory is built over flowing water of
sufficient volume to carry away all waste liquids, an open floor
may be permitted in the discretion of the Board.