The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-20


instruction where persons assemble
for such purpose, is kept or permit
ted to remain in an unsanitay or filthy
condition, or is not properly lighted
or ventilated, or in which the drain
age and plumbing are so unsanitary
as to constitute a menace to health,
or where the construction or condition
of such places is such as to endanger
health, 1t shall be the duty of the
Health Officer to notify the owners or
agents or persons in charge of such
buildings and places, in writing, of
the existence of such conditions and
to require them to remedy such con-
ditions within reasonable time. III
within such time, the specified dan
gerous conditions are not remedied,
1t shall be the duty Of the City Health
Officer to place or cause to be placed,
in conspicuous place on the front
Of such building, a placard proclaim
ing such place or building to be unsan-
itary and dangerous place TO the
| public health. Said placard shall re-
main in said conspicuous place until
the requirements for the protection
of the public health have been fulfill
ed.
SECTION 6. Be it further ordained
that every person. firm or corporation
| owning or operating any factory or
workshop, Office building, mill or loft
or any other place, building or struc-
| ture within the city in which persons
assemble for work, shall be governed
and shall strictly observe the follow
ing regulations pertaining TO such
places. There shall be for each per
son employed in such factory, mill or
| other place not less than forty square
| feet of floor space and not less than
three hundred cubic feet of air space.
The ventilation Of work rooms of ev-
| cry kind and description shall pro-
| vide a supply of not less than three
thousand cubic feet of fresh outside
air for each person in each hour that
such work room is so occupied. Ev
cry such work room shall be heated
during the winter months, or at such
other times as such heating may be
necessary, to temperature
not less than 20 degrees Fab
renheit and this temperature shall be
maintained while sncn work room is
occupied. No building or part thereof
used as mill, factory or work room
| shall be so used when the floor or
walls of such building or part thereof
are continuously damp or when such
| building or part thereof is permeated
by noxious gases or exhalations which
may be detrimental to health. No
building or part thereof shall be used
as work room unless properly light
| ed SO that all parts of such building
or room so used shall be SO illuminat
ed during working hours, either by
day or night, that those who work
| therein shall not be subjected to eye
strain at any time during said work
| ing hours. Every building or part
thereof that is occupied as work
room shall be kept in clean and
wholesome condition at all times and
all refuse and waste therein shall be
deposited and kept in suitable recep-
tacles at all times, which shall be
removed and emptied at least once
every working day. Whenever any
factory, mill or work shop Is used
for the handling or production of any
thing or material in the handling or
manufacturing of which there is dan
ger OF producing in the workmen any
of the SO called occupational diseases,
the person firm or corporation own
ing or operating such factory, mill
or work shop shall supply all neees-
sary means which may be prescribed
by the Board of Health, from time to
time in the interests of health for
the protection of workmen, so en-
lployed, from said occupational diseas-
es: and they shall strictly observe
and cause to be observed all other
rules and regulations that have been,
or may be, prescribed by said Board
of Health in the interests of health
for the protection of said workmen
from said occupational diseases. There
shall be provided for each factory, mill
or workshop in operation plentiful
supply of pure water at all times, In
all factories, mills, workshops, or such
places there shall be provided a water
closet or privy in conformity with
these regulations for every twenty
persons therein employed, and where
there be less than twenty persons EN-
ployed therein at least one closet or
privy shall be supplied provided fur
Their where persons of both sex are
employed in such places, priyies or
water closets shall be provided for
each sex, in different parts of said
buildings, conforming To the rule as
stated above. There shall be supplied
for each factory, mill. workshop or
other similar place sufficient guam
tity of water for toilet purposes and
adequate equipment for the Clearly
washing OF hands. Drinking cups,
towels and soap to be used in common
shall not be provided or permitted
in any such factory, mill or work
shop. No person who is suffering
from any contagious or infectious dis
ease acute or chronic. shall be per
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