996 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 510

1. Any place, building, structure, room, establishment or
portion thereof which is used for the purpose of washing,
drying, starching, ironing or laundering wearing apparel of
any description, table, bed or other household linens, or any
other washable fabrics or materials, such work being done for
the general public, shall be deemed a laundry and subject to
the provisions of this Article.

The provisions of this Article shall not, however, apply
to any private laundry maintained or operated in connection
with any hotel, restaurant or public institution, nor to hos-
pitals or charitable institutions where no charge is made for
such laundry services, nor shall the provisions of said Article
apply to any female engaged in doing custom laundry work
at her home for a regular family trade, nor to any room,
rooms or portion thereof, located in a tenement house or
other dwelling in which domestic laundry work is done by or
for the occupants of such building exclusively.

2. Every laundry shall be kept in a reasonably clean
and sanitary condition as to its floors, side walls, ceilings,
woodwork, fixtures, tools, machinery and utensils. All rooms
used in connection with such laundry shall be provided with
adequate ventilation by means of windows, air shafts, air
ducts or other mechanical apparatus, if needed, so as at
all times to insure a free circulation of fresh air in such
laundry and every laundry shall be provided with adequate
drainage facilities.

3. Every laundry plant shall be arranged so that no
soiled linen shall come in contact therein with clean linen.

4. No person, firm or corporation operating or conducting
a laundry shall knowingly employ or permit to work in the
plant thereof any person who has tuberculosis, any acute or
active venereal disease, any communicable or loathsome skin

disease or any other communicable disease.

5. No owner, proprietor or manager of any laundry, nor
any person employed therein, shall be permitted to sprinkle
any article, fabric or other material being washed or laun-
dered in said laundry with water or other liquid substance
ejected from the mouth or blown out of any device connecting
or coming into contact with the mouth of any such person.