The industrial establishments mentioned in the following list are classified by the present regulation as "dangerous, unhealthy or incommodious," ac according to the provisions of the Act 57 Victoria chapter 30, articles "3023" and "3053". Fulminate of mercury, Injurious emanations. Dangerous dusts. Injurious dusts. Danger of explosion. Danger of accidents. Odor and injurious smoke. Injurious emanations. Danger of explosion. Fertilizer (making or storing of), Deleterious emanations. Flaying of horses and other animals. partments), Shoe factories (polishing, sand papering on machines), Sand papering wood by machinery, Smelting and rolling of iron, brass, lead zinc, Skins (dyeing of), Stamping of sheet metal (working the presses), Oxide of iron (handling and barrelling), Paint (boxing and canning of). Powder (making and manipulating), Skin and leather (preparation and glassing of), Rags (sorting and manipulating of). Rags cutting and grinding(gar netting of), Tar(dipping of iron pipes and wooden blocks), Tinning of sheet iron utensils, "wire, Tallow (boiling), Varnishing metals dried in ovens, White lead, Wood (working on edge tool machiWire (making and drawing) nes Deleterious vapors. Danger of accidents. Injurious emanations. Odor, danger of fire, Injurious dusts. Deleterious vapors. According to the provisions of the Act 57 Victoria, chapter 30, article "3023"" the age of the employees of the establishments enumerated in the above list, shall not be under sixteen (16) years, for. boys, and (18) eighteen years for girls and women. BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE PROVINCE RELATING TO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENES. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER. Quebec, 6th June, 1895. Present:-the Lieutenant-Governor in Council: It is ordered that the following by-laws relating to the sanitary condition of industrial establishments, prepared by the Board of Health conforming to article 3095a of the Revised Statutes of the Province of Quebec, as amended by section 9 of Act 57 Vict., chap 31, be approved and declared obligatory fifteen (15) days after their promulgation in the "Official Gazette". BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE PROVINCE RELATING TO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (57 Vict., chap. 31.) 1. The definition of the several terms employed in these by-laws is given in the law relating to industrial establishments. 2. No industrial establishment can be put into operation without first obtaining permission from the municipal council. SUPPLY OF DRINKING WATER. 3. The supply of drinking water must be of good quality and satisfactory to the sanitary physician. It is absolutely forbidden to use for drinking purposes: (a) Water from wells dug in cellars: (b) Water from wells located less than twenty (20) feet from a dwelling and at less than forty (40) feet from a stable or pig-sty: (c) Water from wells dug at less than one hundred (100) feet from an abatoir, a privy pit, a cesspool: (d) Water from wells situated at a distance less than four hunddred (400) feet from a cemetery, unless the bottom of these wells is above the level of the cemetery, or unless there be, between such wells and the cemetery, a ravine, gully, stream or river, the bottom of which is below the bottom of the wells. In any case, the distance must never be less than fifty (50) feet. The above restrictions do not apply to artesian or tubed wells, except in cases where the sanitary physician might have cause for suspecting their pollution. LIGHTING. 4.-When, in the opinion of the sanitary physician, the natural or artificial light is insufficient for the requirements of a workshop or manufactory, the said physician may require that the area of windows or the power of the artificial light in such workshop or manufactory, be increased to the proportion he believes necessary. CUBIC SPACE. 5.-From the first of October to the first of May, each workman must have at least four hundred (400) cubic feet of air. AERATION AND VENTILATION 6. During the interruption of work for meals, the work room must be vacated and the air therein completely renewed by the opening of the windows. The air is also to be entirely renewed after the work is over at night, or in the morning before the opening of the workshop. 7.-When he believes it necessary, the sanitary physician may, on his own accord, prescribe any artificial ventilation, tion, by propulsion or by extracton, capable of furnishing at least one thousand (1,000) cubic feet of fresh air per hour for each workman. The air thus introduced must not be of a temperature of less than sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit. CLEANLINESS AND CLEANING. 8.-No employer shall tolerate, either inside or outside his workshop, factory or dependencies, any accumulation of vegetable or animal refuse either in a state of decomposition or not. 9.-In places where organic matters liable to putrefaction are dealt with, the floor must be rendered impervious, to the satisfaction of the sanitary physician, The walls are to be covered with an impermeable coating of silicate, stucco or zinc paint. 10. The putrescible wastes which are not used must never be left in the work-rooms; they must be removed as soon as produced and deposited in closed vessels until ultimately burned or buried. 11. The interior walls and ceilings of every workshop or factory must be entirely whitewashed with lime once a year unless they are painted. The painted walls and ceilings must be washed all over with soap and water at least once a year. 12. The floor of every workshop must at least be swept after the day's work is over and the rubbish and waste taken out. In places where putrescible matters are handled, a complete cleansing by washing must take place at least once every week, if the work is continuous, and during the twenty-four (24) hours following the work, if the latter be intermittent. DUSTS, GASES, VAPORS, WASTE. 13. All dust, gases and offensive, unhealthy and toxic vapors must be conducted directly out of the workshop as soon as they are produced and this to the satisfaction of the sanitary physician. 14.-In order to provide against reeks, vapors, gases, light dusts, funnels must be constructed connected with draught flues or any other apparatus for an efficacious elimination. 15.-Millstones, threshers, crushes and other mechanical apparatus must be enclosed in drums put in direct communication with a strong aspirator in order that dust be removed. 16.-For heavy gases such as vapors of mercury and of sulphide of carbon, the ventilation must be made per descensum, and the working tables and other working apparatus must be in direct communication with the ventilators. 17. The pulverization of irritating or toxic matters or other operations such as sifting and packing must be done mechanically in closed apparatus. 18.-When there is but a part of industrial operations that causes dusts, gases or vapors, the sanitary physicians may require that such operations which he is to designate, are to be carried on in rooms entirely separate from the rest of the establishment. 19. The solid waste of a putrifying nature which is not to be used in the trade must be burned of buried two (2) feet under ground and in a place approved of by the municipal council or its board of health, but never less than two hundred (200) feet from a well or other source of drinking water. DRAINAGE. SINKS, WASH BASINS, URINALS, LATRINES, LIQUID WASTE 20. In municipalities where there is a sewerage system, industrial establishments must be connected with the public sewer unless the waste waters, in the opinion of the sanitary physician may deteriorate the sewers, and in this last case, articles 24, 25, 26, of there by-laws apply to these industrial establishments already constructed or to be constructed just as if there were no municipal sewerage system. 21.-In establishments that run off their waste or washing waters in a public or private sewer. (a) The collecting pipes of the building must be of iron, cast-iron or vitrified earthen ware. (b) The soil pipe must be of iron, cast-iron or at least of lead and carried above the roof of the building. (c) The pipes connecting water-closets, basins, sinks other receptacles into the soil pipe must be of iron or lead and three must be a trap (water seal) close to each water-closet, basin, sink or receptacle. |