Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health.

Massachusetts

Date:: 1908

Credit: Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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spector of factories and public buildings for the district in which it is to be erected by the person causing its erection, or by the architect thereof. Such plans shall include the method of ventilation provided therefor and a copy of such portion of the specifications therefor as the inspector may require. Such building shall not be so erected without sufficient egresses and other means of escape from fire, properly located and constructed. The certificate of the inspector, indorsed with the approval of the chief of the district police, shall be conclusive evidence of a com|)liance with the provisions of this chapter unless, after it is granted, a change is made in the plans or specifications of such egresses and means of escape with- out a new certificate therefor. Such inspector may require that proper fire stops shall be provided in the floors, walls and partitions of such buildings, and may make such further requirements as may be necessary or proper to prevent the spread of fire therein or its communication from any steam boiler or heating apparatus. 1888, 316, § 1. 1893, 199, § 1. 1894, 382, § 3; 481, § 25. Wooden Flues, Air Ducts, etc., prohibited. Section 23. No wooden flue or air duct for heating or ventilating purposes shall be placed in any building which is subject 'to the provi- sions of sections twenty-four and twenty-five and no pipe for conveying hot air or steam in such building shall be placed or remain within one inch of any woodwork, unless protected to the satisfaction of said in- s]3eetor by suitable guards or casings of incombustible material. 1885, 326. 1888, 316, § 1; 426, § 8. 1893, 199, § 1. 1894, 481, §§ 25, 33. Penalty. Section 24. Whoever erects or constructs a building, or an architect or other person who draws plans or specifications or superintends the erection or construction of a building, in violation of the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars. 1888, 316, § 2. 1893, 199, § 2. 1894, 382, § 3; 481, § 26. Egresses and Fire Escapes. Section 25. A building which is used, in whole or in part, as a public building, public or private institution, school house, church, theatre, pub- lic hall, place of assemblage or place of public resort, and a building in which ten or more persons are employed above the second story in a fac- tor}', workshop, mercantile and other establishment, and a hotel, family hotel, apartment house, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house in which ten or more persons lodge or reside above the second story, and a factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment the owner, lessee or occupant of which is notified in writing by an inspector of factories and public buildings that the provisions of this chapter are deemed by him applicable thereto shall be provided with proper egresses or other means of escape from fire, sufficient for the use of all persons accommo-

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