A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut.
Date:
1896
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Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    business of buffing, polishing, or grinding metals, or any opera- tions in which an excessive amount of dust is generated, that the excessive dust resulting from said operations should be removed from the atmosphere of the rooms or apartments used for that purpose, he shall, in writing, direct the person or persons or cor- poration owning or occupying said premises, or carrying on busi- ness in such premises, within three months from the date of said order, to introduce and operate such appliances or devices as may be necessary to remove, so far as the nature of the business will permit, such excessive dust or foreign matter from the atmos- phere of such mill, factory or apartment used for the purposes aforesaid ; provided, such appliances or devices do not restrict or interfere with the aforesaid business or operations. Sec. 2. Any violation of any proper order made or given by Penalty. the inspector of factories, under the provisions of the preceding section, shall be punished in the manner provided in section 2269 of the General Statutes. CHAPTER LXXXIII. 1889. Drinking Water for Railroad Passenger Cars. That clause of section 3540 of the General Statutes, beginning Railroad^passen- 7 ° ° Ker cars to be with the word shall in the tenth line, and ending with the Sting water. word it in the fifteenth line thereof, is hereby amended to read as follows: shall carry in each passenger car, in a tank or other suitable appurtenance, a sufficient quantity of good drink- ing water for the free use of the passengers, with a clean tumbler or cup for using it ; or instead thereof shall carry through each passenger car, once an hour, a suitable quantity of good drinking water for the free use of the passengers, with suit- able appurtenances for carrying it and a clean glass tumbler for using it. Water Closets at Stations and in Factories. Sec. 3584. Every railroad company operating steam railroads \f^c^kete u in this State shall maintain at each regular passenger depot on stations. the railroad operated by them respectively, such suitable water- closets as in the judgment of the Railroad Commissioners the public convenience may require ; and said commissioners may make all necessary orders in the premises, and enforce the same by mandamus, in the name of the State.