The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-12-25

= IRIS II STAND ARD
compiled with. Then there were
$4,000 licensed tenement houses where
work for factories is done that had
to be inspected, a total of roughly,
10000 places that the factory inspec-
tors had to visit.
Enormously more complex require
ments of the law were made by the
legislature of 1913, the amendments
that were then passed going at much
greater depth into the question of
sanitation and safety than the laws
had previously done. A reflection of
that change may be seen in the fact
that while in 1912 the inspectors
found 1t necessary to issue $4,000 Or
ders that had to do with sanitary mat
tiers, and $4,000 orders having to do
with safety, in 1914 the inspectors
found it necessary to issue $4,000 san
itary orders and $4,000 orders in re-
lation to safety. OF this number, the
records show that there were 100000
having to do with the question of i'm
proved fire protection, largely re.
CURED through the new provisions that
were added to the law by the legisla-
ture of 1913.
Law Enforcement.
Requirements of other sections of
the law that have to be investigated
include the day of rest law in factories
and mercantile establishments; the
hours per day requirements on street,
surface and elevated railroads, on
steam surface and other railroads, and
on block system telegraph and tele-
phone operators and signalmen on
street surface, subway and elevated
railroad systems. There is also re-
quired the enforcement of the law
governing the payment of wages by
receivers and the section that required
the payment Of wages weekly and in
cash, these particular sections being
violated in great many cases. In.
spection, too, must be made of the
safety of scaffolding, ropes, blocks,
pulleys and tackles used in building
operations and the general protection
of builders employees.
"No state employee" Commissioner
Lynch says, lis required to perform
such complete and multifarious duties
as factory inspector, and on the con
scientious and painstaking discharge
OF his duties depend to large extent
the safety and health of the Industrial
population of the Empire state"
Passing on New Factory Plans.
Closely allied with the inspection
work is the division that has to dc
with the examination of plans of new
factories or of additions, improvements
or engagements to existing ones
While it is not mandatory that the
plans of new factory shall be sub
mitted to the Department for approval
before the building is constructed
once it is done and occupied as fac
tory it comes within the jurisdiction
OF the Department and then is subject
structurally as we'll as to it's machinery
guarding, to the demands of the labor
laws. Factory owners more and more
appreciate the benefits that come by
having their plans approved in ad
vance, and the plan examination divi
sion looks after this particular feature
of inspection work. Once the plans
are approved the factory owner is as
sured that after this building is used
for factory purposes he will not have
to make costly alterations in the
building to meet the laws require
ments.
Division Of Industrial Hygiene.
The work done by the Division Of
Industrial Hygiene is inspection work
of a scientific kind. It deals with the
dangers Of occupational diseases and
accidents, and the state, without any
blare of trumpets, has been conduct
ing the work for a number of years
with the most gratifying results. The
Departments medical and chemica
examiners have done great worl
that has been unheralded and unsung
Investigation has been made as to thu
causes of various diseases in particu
lar industries, and of the causes o
accidents that have come in occupa
lions about which not much had here
tofore been known. The results o
these investigations have shown
where the dangers lie, and corrective
methods have been applied, that Their
might not be recurrence of thes'
accidents, in very many cases dias
trous explosions with attendant los
of life and property loss. The divi
sion has been able to point out tn
way to provide against repetitions
and in this way has undoubtedly savet
many lives and many thousands o
dollars worth of property.
WILLIAM BROWN.
William Brown, of Eveleth, MINI
died suddenly at his home in Eveleth
MIMI. on Sunday, December 18th. HI
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