Annual Convention of the International Association of Factory Inspectors, Volume 6, Parts 1892-1897The Association, 1893 - Factory inspection |
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... heating the school- room by a wood stove , which roasted the children sitting near it while those farthest away were shivering with cold , it had served past gener- ations and was good enough for present ones . This leads me to the ...
... heating the school- room by a wood stove , which roasted the children sitting near it while those farthest away were shivering with cold , it had served past gener- ations and was good enough for present ones . This leads me to the ...
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... heated . In some of the large factories a portion of the time each week is given to cleaning the workrooms and machinery without any reduction of wages , manufacturers claiming that it pays to pursue such a course , as the help perform ...
... heated . In some of the large factories a portion of the time each week is given to cleaning the workrooms and machinery without any reduction of wages , manufacturers claiming that it pays to pursue such a course , as the help perform ...
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... heated and ventilated in the old way , and the other , which we will call No. 2 , by the most recent improved ... heating apparatus is located . In this basement there are two furnaces , placed nearly in the center of the building ...
... heated and ventilated in the old way , and the other , which we will call No. 2 , by the most recent improved ... heating apparatus is located . In this basement there are two furnaces , placed nearly in the center of the building ...
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... heated . These cold air ducts are each about twenty - five feet long , and there are two sharp turns in each duct ... heating and ventilating is defective . We will now proceed to apply our tests to see how the system works . We first ...
... heated . These cold air ducts are each about twenty - five feet long , and there are two sharp turns in each duct ... heating and ventilating is defective . We will now proceed to apply our tests to see how the system works . We first ...
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... heated and ventilated by a more recent , and what I think we shall find to be a greatly superior method . The plan of this building , No. 2 , is the same as the one we have already inspected . We find the furnaces to be of the same make ...
... heated and ventilated by a more recent , and what I think we shall find to be a greatly superior method . The plan of this building , No. 2 , is the same as the one we have already inspected . We find the furnaces to be of the same make ...
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Page 1 - If a teacher, though a genins, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," he would keep on all through life proving things and would have no time to "hold fast.
Page 4 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 98 - ... more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day, unless for the purpose of making a shorter work day on the last day of the week, nor more hours in...
Page 119 - Every person or corporation employing minors under sixteen years of age in any manufacturing establishment, shall post and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in every room where such help is employed, a printed notice stating the number of hours...
Page 32 - Every factory in which five or more persons are employed, and every factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment or office in which two or more children, young persons or women are employed, shall be kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance...
Page 119 - Every person, firm, or corporation employing females in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment in this state, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.
Page 72 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows : The young birds are chirping in the nest ; The young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly...
Page 51 - That every Fly-wheel directly connected with the Steam Engine or Water-wheel or other mechanical Power, whether in the Engine House or not, and every Part of a Steam Engine and Water-wheel, and every Hoist or Teagle, near to which Children or young Persons are liable to pass or be employed...
Page 12 - ... or when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter day's work for one day of the week ; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed sixty in a week.
Page 100 - Inspector the safety of persons in or about the premises should require it, such proper trap or automatic doors so fastened in or at all elevator ways as to form a substantial surface when closed, and so constructed as to open and close by the action of the elevator in its passage, either ascending or descending, but the requirements of this section shall not apply to passenger elevators that are closed on all sides.