Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the powers and duties of the medical examiners, and the registration of vital statistics, together with references to decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health.

Massachusetts

Date:: 1899

Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the powers and duties of the medical examiners, and the registration of vital statistics, together with references to decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared by direction 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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lands purchased or taken to be filed in the registry of deeds for the county and district in which the lands are situated. Rooms, etc., to be used only by the family dwelliug in them for mak- ing, etc., clothing. Family to be licensed. Persons not licensed not to be employed. Rooms, etc., to be kept in a cleanly condi- tion and subject to inspection. Certain rooms, etc., not subject to provisions. [Acts of 1898, Chapter 150.] An Act relative to the manueactuke and sale of clothing made in unhealthy places. Section 1. Section forty-four of chapter five hundred and eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the follow- ing : — Section 44. No room or apartment in any tene- ment or dwelling house shall be used for the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing therein any coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description whatsoever, except by the members of the family dwell- ing therein, and any family desiring to do the work of making, altering, repairing or finishing any coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description whatsoever in any room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house shall first procure a license, approved by the chief of the district police, to do such work as aforesaid. A license may be applied for by and issued to any one member of any family desiring to do such work. No person, partnership or corporation, shall hire, employ or contract with any member of a family not holding a license therefor, to make, alter, repair or finish any garments or articles of wearing apparel as aforesaid, in any room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house as aforesaid. Every room or apartment in which any garments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered, repaired or finished, shall be kept in a cleanly condition and shall be subject to the inspection and examination of the inspectors of the district police, for the purpose of ascertaining whether said garments or articles of wearing appai'el or any part or parts thereof are clean and free from vermin and every matter of an infectious or contagious nature. A room or apartment in any tene- ment or dwelling house which is not used for living or sleeping purposes, and which is not connected with any room or apartment used for living or sleeping purposes,

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