reported upon by physicians and may add to or change such list at any time. Copies of all such reports and all statistics and data compiled therefrom shall be kept by the State board of labor and industries and shall be furnished on request to the industrial accident board and the State board of health.

SEC. 7. All hearings by the joint board shall be open to the public. The chairman of the State board of labor and industries and the chairman of the industrial accident board shall act alternately as chairman of the joint board, and the said board may designate one of the employees of either board to act as secretary.

SEC. 8. Section 8 of chapter 726 of the acts of the year 1912 is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof the words: "or persons especially qualified by technical education in matters relating to health and sanitation."

SEC. 9. The industrial accident board may appoint and remove not more than six inspectors, subject to the laws relating to the appointment and removal of employees in the classified civil service. They shall be required to pass examinations of a comprehensive and practical character based upon the particular requirements of the kinds of work to be done, shall be graded in such manner as the board may deem expedient, and shall receive such salaries as the board, with the approval of the governor and council, may fix.

SEC. 10. If any rule or regulation made under authority of section 18 of Part IV of chapter 751 of the acts of the year 1911 conflicts with or differs from a rule or regulation of the joint board, the rule or regulation of the joint board shall prevail.

SEC. 11. There may be expended annually by the joint board in carrying out the provisions of this act such sums as the general court may appropriate. The joint board shall annually submit to the auditor of the Commonwealth such statements of estimates to cover its expenses as are required by section 3 of chapter 719 of the acts of the year

1912.

SEC. 12. The following terms and phrases, as used in this act, shall have the following meanings:

(a) The term "employment" shall mean and include any trade, occupation or branch of industry, any particular method or process used therein, and the service of any particular employer; but shall not include private domestic service or service as a farm laborer.

(b) The phrase "place of employment" shall mean and include every place whether indoors or out or underground and the premises appurtenant thereto, into, in, or upon which any employee goes or remains either temporarily or regularly in the course of his employment.

(c) The terms "safe" and "safety," as used in this act, shall be held to relate to such freedom from danger to the life, safety, and health of employees, as the nature of the employment will reasonably permit.

(d) The terms "industrial disease" and "occupational disease" shall mean and include any ailment or disease caused by the nature, circumstances, or conditions of the employment.

SEC. 13. Whoever violates any reasonable rule, regulation, order, or requirement made by the joint board under authority hereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 for each offense.

SEC. 14. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed; but this provision shall not be construed to take away any of the existing powers of the industrial accident board, the board of railroad commissioners, the State board of health, the board of boiler rules, the boiler-inspection department of the district police, or the building-inspection department of the district police, or any power given to the State board of labor and industries by chapter 726 of the acts of the year 1912.

MINNESOTA.

Tuberculosis-Notification of Cases and Control. (Chap. 434, Act Apr. 23, 1913.) SECTION 1. Every physician in the State of Minnesota shall report to the State board of health on blanks furnished by said board for that purpose full particulars as to every person under his treatment for tuberculosis within one week after the diagnosis of the disease, except that physicians in cities and villages where they are required by ordinance or sanitary regulation to report tuberculosis to the local board of health will not be required to report such cases directly to the State board of health, but the local health officer shall make returns of all such cases reported to him to the State board of health once a month on blanks furnished for that purpose by said board. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for the authorities in charge of any penal or charitable institution to care for any person afflicted with tuberculosis in the same room or ward with other inmates.

SEC. 3. Any health officer shall have the right to report to the board of county commissioners of his county any person afflicted with tuberculosis whom he considers a menace to his family or other persons, and upon the approval of the board of county commissioners said health officer shall have the power to remove said person and place him in a public sanatorium or hospital, where he shall remain until discharged therefrom by the superintendent of such institution.

SEC. 4. No teacher, pupil, or employee about a school building who is afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis shall remain in or about such building without having a certificate issued by the local board of health or by an agent duly authorized by said board stating that said person is in no sense a source of danger to others.

SEC. 5. In case of the vacation of any apartment or premises by death from tuberculosis, or by the removal therefrom of a person or persons sick with tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the person or physician in charge to notify the health officer of such town, incorporated village, or city, aforesaid, of said removal within 24 hours thereafter, and such apartments or premises so vacated shall not again be occupied until renovated and disinfected as hereinafter provided.

In case of such vacation the health officer shall order that such premises or apartment and all infected articles therein be properly and suitably renovated and disinfected. In case there shall be no remaining occupants in such premises or apartments hen the health officer shall cause a notice in writing to be served upon the owner or agent of the owner of such premises or apartments, ordering the renovation and disinfection of such premises or apartments under the directions of and in conformity with the regulations of the State board of health.

SEC. 6. In case any orders or directions of the health officer requiring the disinfection of any articles, premises, or apartments, as hereinbefore provided, shall not be complied with within 36 hours after such orders or direction shall be given, then it shall be the duty of the health officer to cause a placard in words and form as follows to be placed upon the door of the infected apartments or premises, to wit:

NOTICE.

TUBERCULOSIS IS A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.

THESE APARTMENTS HAVE BEEN

OCCUPIED BY A CONSUMPTIVE AND MAY BE INFECTED. THEY MUST NOT BE OCCUPIED UNTIL THE ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER DIRECTING THEIR RENOVATION AND DISINPECTION HAS BEEN COMPLIED WITH.

THIS NOTICE MUST NOT BE REMoved under A PENALTY OF LAW, EXCEPT BY THE HEALTH OFFICER OR AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER.

SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person having pulmonary tuberculosis to dispose of sputum, saliva, or other secretions or excretions so as to cause offense or danger to

any person or persons.

SEC. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a

misdemeanor.

OHIO.

Occupational Diseases-Notification of Cases. (Act Apr. 23, 1913.)

SECTION 1. Every physician in this State attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic, brass, wood alcohol, mercury, or their compounds, or from anthrax, or from compressed air illness, or any other ailment or disease, contracted as a result of the nature of the patient's employment, shall within 48 hours from the time of first attending such patient send to the State board of health a report stating:

(a) Name, address, and occupation of patient.

(b) Name, address, and business of employer.

(c) Nature of disease.

(d) Such other information as may be reasonably required by the State board of

health.

The reports herein required shall be made on, or in conformity with, the standard schedule blanks hereinafter provided for. The mailing of the report, within the time required, in a stamped envelope addressed to the office of the State board of health, shall be a compliance with this section.

SEC. 2. The State board of health shall prepare and furnish, free of cost, to the physieians included in the preceding section, standard schedule blanks for the reports required under this act. The form and contents of such blanks shall be determined by the State board of health.

SEC. 3. Reports made under this act shall not be evidence of the facts therein stated in any action arising out of the disease therein reported.

SEC. 4. It shall furthermore be the duty of the State board of health to transmit a copy of all such reports of occupational disease to the proper official having charge of factory inspection.

Occupational Diseases-Notification of Cases and Prevention of. (Act May 6, 1913.) SECTION 1. General duties of employers.-Every employer shall, without cost to the employees, provide reasonably effective devices, means and methods to prevent the contraction by his employees of illness or disease incident to the work or process in which such employees are engaged.

SEC. 2. Especially dangerous works or processes.-Every work or process in the manufacture of white lead, red lead, litharge, sugar of lead, arsenate of lead, lead chromate, lead sulphate, lead nitrate or fluosilicate, is hereby declared to be especially dangerous to the health of the employees, who, while engaged in such work or process, are exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions.

SEC. 3. Duties of employers to provide safety appliances for the protection of employees in especially dangerous works or processes.-Every employer shall, without cost to the employees, provide the following devices, means and methods for the protection of his employees who while engaged in any work or process included in section 2, are exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions:

(a) Working rooms, hoods and air exhausts for the protection of employees engaged in any work or process which produces lead dusts or lead fumes.-The employer shall provide and maintain workrooms adequately lighted and ventilated, and so arranged that there is a continuous and sufficient change of air, and all such rooms shall be fully ventilated and separated by partition walls from all departments in which the work or process is of a nondusty character; and all such rooms shall be provided with a floor permitting an easy removal of dust by wet methods or vacuum cleaning, and all such floors shall be so cleaned daily.

Every work or process referred to in section 2, including the corroding or oxidizing of lead, and the crushing, mixing, sifting, grinding, and packing of all lead salts or other

compounds referred to in section 2, shall be so conducted and such adequate devices provided and maintained by the employer as to protect the employee, as far as possible, from contact with lead dust or lead fumes. Every kettle, vessel, receptacle, or furnace in which lead in any form referred to in section 2 is being melted or treated, and any place where the contents of such kettles, receptacles, or furnaces are discharged shall be provided with a hood conected with an efficient air exhaust; all vessels or containers in which dry lead in any chemical form or combination referred to in section 2, is being conveyed from one place to another within the factory shall be equipped at the places where the same are filled or discharged, with hoods having connection with an efficient air exhaust; and all hoppers, chutes, conveyors, elevators, separators, vents from separators, dumps, pulverizers, chasers, dry pans, or other apparatus for drying pulp lead, dry-pans dump, and all barrel packers and cars or other receptacles into which corrosions are at the time being emptied shall be connected with an efficient dust-collecting system; such system to be regulated by the discharge of air from a fan, pump, or other apparatus, either through a cloth dust collector having an area of not less than one-half square foot of cloth to every cubic foot of air passing through it per minute, the dust collector to be placed in a separate room which no employee shall be required or allowed to enter, except for essential repairs, while the works are in operation; or such other apparatus as will efficiently remove the lead dusts from the air before it is discharged into the outer air.

(b) Washing facilities.-The employer shall provide a wash room or rooms which shall be separate from the workrooms, be kept clean, and be equipped with:

(1) Lavatory basins fitted with waste pipes and two spigots conveying hot and cold

water; or

(2) Basins placed in troughs fitted with waste pipes and for each basin two spigots conveying hot and cold water; or

(3) Troughs of enamel or similar smooth impervious material fitted with waste pipes, and for every 2 feet of trough length two spigots conveying hot and cold water.

Where basins are provided there shall be at least one basin for every five employees, and where troughs are provided, at least 2 feet of trough for every five such employees. The employer shall also furnish nail brushes and soap, and shall provide at least three clean towels per week for each such employee. A time allowed of not less than 10 minutes, at the employer's expense, shall be made to each such employee for the use of said washroom before the lunch hour and at the close of the day's work.

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The employer shall also provide at least one shower bath for every five such employees. The baths shall be approached by wooden runways, be provided with movable wooden gratings, be supplied with controlled hot and cold water, and be kept clean. The employer shall furnish soap and shall provide at least two clean bath towels week for each such employee. An additional time allowance of not less than 10 minutes, at the employer's expense, shall be made to each such employee for the use of said baths at least twice a week at the close of the day's work. The employer shall keep a record of each time that such baths are used by each employee, which record shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by the (State department of factory inspection) and also by the (State board of health).

(e) Dressing rooms. The employer shall provide a dressing room or rooms which shall be separate from the workrooms, be furnished with a double sanitary locker or two single sanitary lockers for each such employee, and be kept clean.

id Eating rooms. The employer shall provide an eating room or eating rooms which shall be separate from the workrooms, be furnished with a sufficient number of tables and seats, and be kept clean. No employee shall take or be allowed to take any food or drink of any kind into any workroom, nor shall any employee remain or be allowed to remain in any workroom during the time allowed for his meals.

(e) Drinking fountains.-The employer shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of sanitary drinking fountains readily accessible for the use of the employees.

(f) Clothing. The employer shall provide at least two pairs of overalls and two jumpers for each employee, and repair or renew such clothing when necessary, and wash the same weekly. Such clothing shall be kept exclusively for the use of that employee.

(g) Respirators.-The employer shall provide, and renew when necessary, at least two reasonably effective respirators for each employee who is engaged in any work or process which produces lead dusts.

SEC. 4. Duties of employees in especially dangerous works or processes to use the safety appliances provided by the employers.-Every employee who, while engaged in any work or process included in section 2, is exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions, shall:

(a) Use the washing facilities provided by the employer in accord with section 3 (b) and wash himself at least as often as a time allowance is therein granted for such use. (b) Use the eating room provided by the employer in accord with section 3 (d) unless the employee goes off the premises for his meals.

(c) Put on, and wear at all times while engaged in accord with section 3 (ƒ) and remove the same before leaving at the close of the day's work; and keep his street clothes and his working clothes, when not in use, in separate lockers or separate parts of the locker provided by the employer in accord with section 3 (c).

(d) Keep clean the respirators provided by the employer in accord with section 3 (g) and use on at all time while he is engaged in any work or process which produces lead dusts.

SEC. 5. Notices. The employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every workroom where any work or process included in section 2 is carried on, room where washing facilities are provided, dressing rooms, and eating room, a notice of the known dangers arising from such work or process, and simple instructions for avoiding, as far as possible, such dangers. The (chief State factory inspector) shall prepare a notice containing the provision of this act, and shall furnish, free of cost, a reasonable number of copies thereof to every employer included in section 2, and the employer shall post copies thereof in the manner hereinabove stated. The notices required in this section shall be printed in plain type on cardboard, and shall be in English and in such other languages as the circumstances may reasonably require. The contents of such notices shall be explained to every employee by the employer when the said employee enters employment in such work or process, and in addition shall be read to all employees at least once a month, interpreters being provided by the employer when necessary to carry out the above requirements.

SEC. 6. Medical examination.—The employer shall cause every employee who, while engaged in any work or process included in section 2, is exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions, to be examined at least once a month for the purpose of ascertaining if symptoms of lead poisoning appear in any employee. The employee shall submit himself to the monthly examination and to examination at such other times and places as he may reasonably be requested by the employer, and he shall fully and truly answer all questions bearing on lead poisoning asked him by the examining physician. The examinations shall be made by a licensed physician, designated and paid by the employer, and shall be made during the working hours, a time allowance therefor, at the employer's expense, being made to each employee so examined.

SEC. 7. Record and reports of medical examination.-Every physician making any examination under section 6 and finding what he believes to be symptoms of lead poisoning shall enter, in a book to be kept for that purpose in the office of the employer, a record of such examination containing the name and address of the employee so examined, the particular work or process in which he is engaged, the date, place, and finding of such examination, and the directions given in each case by the physician. The record shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by the (State department of factory inspection) and by the (State board of health).