employer, and shall be made during the working hours, a time allowance therefor at the employer's expense being made to each employe so examined.

Section 7. Every physician making an examination, under section six, and finding what he believes to be symptoms of lead-poisoning, shall enter, in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the employer, a record of such examination, containing the name and address of the employe 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 Labor and Industry and by the State Department of Health.

Within forty-eight hours after such examination and finding, the examining physician shall send a report thereof, in duplicate,-one copy to the State Department of Labor and Industry and one to the State Department of Health. The report shall be on, or in conformity with, blanks to be prepared and furnished by the State Department of Health, free of cost, to every employer included in section two, and shall state: (a) name, occupation, and address of employe; (b) name, business, and address of employer; (c) nature and probable extent of disease; and (d) such other information as may be reasonably required by the State Department of Health.

The examination physician shall, also, within the said forty-eight hours, report such examination and finding to the employer; and after five days from such report the employer shall not continue the said employe in any work or process where he will be exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions, included in section two of this act.

Section 8. The State Department of Labor and Industry shall enforce this act, and prosecute all violations of the same. The officers, or their agents, of the said department, shall be allowed at all reasonable times to inspect any place of employment included in this act.

Every employer who, either personally or through any agent, violates or fails to comply with any provisions of section one or section three, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction, for the first offense, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars, nor more than two hundred ($200) dollars; and on conviction for a second offense shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than two hundred ($200) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars; and on conviction for each subsequent offense shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than three hundred ($300) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars; and in each case he shall stand committed until such fine and the costs are paid, or until he is otherwise discharged by due process of law. Every employe who violates or fails to comply with any provision of section four shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and on conviction, for the first offense, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than ten ($10) dollars, nor more than twenty ($20) dollars; and on conviction for the second offense shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty ($20) dollars, nor more than fifty ($50) dollars: and on conviction for each subsequent offense, not less than thirty ($30) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars; and in

each case he shall stand committed until such fine and the costs are paid, or until he is otherwise discharged by due process of law. Every employer who, either personally or through any agent, violates or fails to comply with any provision of sections five, six or seven relating to him, and every employe who violates or fails to comply with the provisions of section six relating to him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced! to pay a fine of not less than ten ($10) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars.

Section 10. In this act, unless the context otherwise requires, "employer" includes persons, firms, partnerships, limited artner ships, and corporations.

Section 11. For the purpose of determining the constitutionality of any provision of this act, section one hereof is declared to be independent of, and separable from the remaining sections.

Section 12. This act shall take effect on the first day of October. one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, except as to subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of section three, which subdivisions shall take effect as follows:

Subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of section three, on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen:

Subdivision (a) of section three, on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

Exhaust Systems for Certain Kinds of Machinery.

Act No. 447, July 24, 1913, P. L. 970.

To protect the health and lives of employes in certain occupations, by requiring the use of blowers, or similar apparatus, in connection with certain kinds of machinery, and specifying the equipment to be used in connection therewith; regulating the use of such blowers and apparatus, and providing penalties for violation of this act.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all persons, companies, or corporations operating any factory or workshop where emery-wheels or emery-belts of any description are used, either solid emery, leather, leather-covered, felt, canvas. linen, paper, cotton, or wheels or belts rolled or coated with emery or corundum, or cotton-wheels used as buffs, shall provide the same with blowers, or similar apparatus, which shall be placed over, beside, or under such wheels or belts, in such a manner as to protect the person or persons using the same from the particles of dust produced and caused thereby, and to carry away the dust arising from or thrown off by such wheels or belts, while in operation, directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such dust: Provided, That grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of the grinding contact shall be exempt from the provisions of this act; and, provided, this act shall not apply to factories or workshops where men are not employed continuously at such wheels or belts more than three hours in twenty-four hours.

Section 2. It shall be the duty of any person, company, or corporation operating any such factory, or workshop, to provide or construct such inces, apparatus, machinery, or other things

necessary to carry out the purpose of this act, as set forth in the preceding section, as follows: Each and every wheel shall be fitted with a sheet of case iron, or hood or hopper, of such form, and so applied to such wheel or wheels, that the dust or refuse therefrom will fall from such wheels, or will be thrown into such hood or hopper by centrifugal force, and be carried off by the current of air into a suction-pipe attached to same hood or hopper.

Section 3. This act shall become operative on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

Section 4. The inspectors of the Department of Labor and Industry are hereby authorized to enter and inspect all factories and workshops, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act.

Section 5. Any person or persons, or company, or managers or directors of any company or corporation, who shall have the charge or management of any factory or workshop, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not exceeding three hundre dollars.

Section 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Work In Compressed Air.

Act No. 364, July 19, 1917, P. L. 1088.

Relating to and regulating the employment of persons in compressed-air work.

Definitions.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the term "pressure" when used in this act means "gage pressure in pounds per square inch."

The term "employer" when used in this act includes individuals, copartnerships, associations, and corporations.

Safety of Employes.

Section 2. Every tunnel, caisson, compartment, or place to which this act applies shall be so constructed, equipped, arranged, operated, and conducted as to provide such protection to the lives, health, and safety of all persons employed therein as the nature of the employment will reasonably permit.

Equipment for Work in Compressed Air.

Section 3. Every employer carrying on any work in the prosecution of which persons are employed in compressed air shall:

(1) Provide and install gages in each tunnel, for showing the air pressure to which the persons so employed therein are subjected. Such gages shall be accessible at all times during working-hours to all employes in the tunnels.

(2) Provide and attach gages to each caisson, for showing the air pressure to which the person so employed therein are subjected, and employ a competent person, who may be the lock-tender, to take charge of such gages and of the instruments required under subdivision three of this section. The person so employed shall not be permitted to work more than eight hours in any twenty-four hours.

(3) Provide and attach an air-gage and a timepiece to each air-lock. Such gage and timepiece shall be accessible to the lock-tender at all times.

(4) Keep at least two air-pipes or lines connected with each tunnel, caisson, compartment, or place in which persons are so employed.

(5) Provide a suitable iron ladder for the entire length of every shaft used in connection with such work.

(6) Keep every passageway used in connection with such work clear and properly lighted.

(7) Provide sufficient electric lights for all lighting purposes, and provide a wire for lighting the shaft, which wire shall be separated from the wire used for lighting the place where the employes are at work in compressed air; all electric wires shall be properly insulated.

(8) Provide, for the use of all persons so employed, dressing-rooms, which shall be kept open and accessible during working-hours and during the intervals between working-periods, and also a separate room for drying clothes. The dressing-rooms shall contain benches and individual lockers, shower-baths, with hot and cold water, and sanitary water-closets, and shall be kept properly heated, lighted, and ventilated.

(9) If the maximum air pressure in such work exceeds seventeen pounds, provide and maintain at least one double compartment hospital-lock; such lock shall be at least six feet high inside measurement, and be suitably floored; it shall be equipped with inside and outside air-gages and timepieces, and a telephone with proper connections, and shall contain benches and proper surgical and medical equipment; it shall be properly heated, lighted, and ventilated.

Suspension of Caissons.

Section 4. No caisson in which persons are employed in compressed air shall, while work is in progress therein, be suspended or hung so that the bottom of the excavation 'is more than four feet below the cutting edge of the caisson.

Inspection.

Section 5. Every employer carrying on any work in the prosecution of which persons are employed in compressed air shall cause all engines, boilers, steam-pipes, steam-gages, drills, caissons, air-pipes, air-gages, airlocks, dynamos, electric wiring, signal apparatus, brakes, buckets, hoists, cables, chains, ropes, ladders, ways, tracks, sides, roofs, timbers, supports, and all other equipment, apparatus and appliances used in connection with such work to be inspected at least once every working day by a competent person especially designated for that purpose; and if any defect in such equipment, apparatus or appliances is found, a report thereof in writing shall forthwith be made by the inspector to the employer and the defect shall be immediately repaired.

Medical Attendants and Nurses.

Section 6. Every employer carrying on any work in the prosecution of which persons are employed in compressed air shall: