AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate and limit the hours of employment of females in any mechanical establishment or factory or laundry in order to safeguard the health of such employés; to provide for its enforcement and a penalty for its violation; approved June 15, 1909, in force July 1, 1909"; and to add an additional section thereto to be known as section 5, and to amend the title of said Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1 and 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate and limit the hours of employment of females in any mechanical establishment or factory or laundry in order to safeguard the health of such employés; to provide for its enforcement and a penalty for its violation," be and the same are hereby amended, and an additional section to be known as section 5 be added thereto, and the title of said Act shall be amended and the same shall read as follows:

§ 1. That no female shall be employed in any mechanical or mercantile establishment, or factory, or laundry, or hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office thereof, or in any place of amusement, or by any person, firm or corporation engaged in any express or transportation or public utility business, or by any common carrier, or in any public institution, incorporated or unincorporated in this State, more than ten hours during any one day. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall not work more than ten hours during the twenty-four hours of any day.

§ 2. Any employer who shall require or permit or suffer any female to work in any of the places mentioned in section 1 of this Act more than the number of hours provided for in this Act, during any day of twenty-four hours, or who shall fail, neglect or refuse so to arrange the work of females in his employ that they shall not work more than the number of hours provided for in this Act, during any one day, or who shall permit or suffer any overseer, superintendent or other agent of any such employer to violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense in a sum of not less than $25.00 or more than $100.00.

§ 5. Every employer to whom this Act shall apply, shall keep a time book or record showing for each day that his establishment is open the hours during which each and every female in his employ, to whom this Act applies, is employed. Such time book or record shall be open at

all reasonable hours to the inspection of the officials of the Factory Inspection Department. The failure or omission to keep such record, or a false statement contained therein, or any false statement made by any person to an official of the Factory Inspection Department, in reply to any question put in carrying out the provisons of this Act, shall be punishable on conviction by a penalty of not more than $25 for each offense. [$ 2.] The title of said Act shall be amended to read as follows: "An Act to regulate and limit the hours of employment of females in any mechanical or mercantile establishment, or factory, or laundry, hotel or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office thereof, or in any place of amusement, or by any express or transportation or public utility business, or by any common carrier or in any public institution, incorporated or unincorporated, in this State, in order to safeguard the health of such employés; to provide for its enforcement and a penalty for its violation.”

AN ACT to prevent accidents in mines and other industrial plants and to conserve the resources of the State by the establishment of Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes and for the administration and support of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That in order to prevent accidents in mines and other industrial plants and to conserve the resources of the State, by the education and training of all classes of workers in and about the mines and other industrial plants of the State, there shall be established and maintained a form of educational betterment work, which shall be known as the Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes. § 2. That it shall be the purpose of such Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes to promote the technical efficiency of all persons working in and about the mines and other industrial plants of the State and to assist them to better overcome the increasing difficulties of mining and other industrial employments. In the development of this purpose, any and all means may be employed which promise to give desired results such as bulletins, traveling libraries, lectures, correspondence work, classes for systematic instruction, or meetings for the reading and discussion of papers.

§3. That the administration of the Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes, as provided in section one hereof, shall vest in the trustees of the University of Illinois; that all money appropriated by the State for the purpose of this Act shall be made available to said trustees; and

that the said trustees be and hereby are authorized and directed to proceed with the work of the organization, maintenance and administration through their regularly authorized agents, aided by such other persons as in their judgment the work may require.

§ 4. The State Board of Contracts is hereby authorized and directed to provide all necessary printing for the Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes, including such bulletins as may be published from time to time by the Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes.

AN ACT to promote the public health by protecting certain employés in this State from the dangers of occupational diseases, and providing for the enforcement thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That every employer of labor in this State, engaged in carrying on any work or process which may produce any illness or disease peculiar to the work or process carried on, or which subjects the employés to the danger of illness or disease incident to such work or process, to which employés are not ordinarily exposed in other lines of employment, shall, for the protection of all employés engaged in such work or process, adopt and provide reasonable and approved devices, means or methods for the prevention of such industrial or occupational diseases as are incident to such work or process.

§ 2. Every employer in this State engaged in the carrying on of any process of manufacture or labor in which sugar of lead, white lead, lead chromate, lithrage, red lead, arsenate of lead, or paris green are employed, used or handled, or the manufacture of brass or the smelting of lead or zinc, which processes and employments are hereby declared to be especially dangerous to the health of the employés engaged in any pro

cess of manufacture or labor in which poisonous chemicals, minerals or other substances are used or handled by the employés therein in harmful quantities or under harmful conditions, shall provide for and place at the disposal of the employés engaged in any such process or manufacture and shall maintain in good condition and without cost to the employés, proper working clothing to be kept and used exclusively for such employés while at work, and all employés therein shall be required at all times while they are at work to use and wear such clothing; and in all processes of manufacture or labor referred to in this section which are unnecessarily productive of noxious or poisonous dusts, adequate and approved respirators shall be furnished and maintained by the employer in good condition and without cost to the employés, and such employés shall use such respirators at all times while engaged in any work necessarily productive of noxious or poisonous dusts.

3. Every employer engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act, shall, as often as once every calendar month, cause all employés who come into direct contact with the poisonous agencies or injurious processes referred to in section 2 of this Act, to be examined by a competent licensed physician for the purpose of ascertaining if there exists in any employé any industrial or occupational disease or illness, or any disease or illness due or incident to the character of the work in which the employé is engaged.

§ 4. It is hereby made the duty of any licensed physician who shall make the physical examination of employés under the provisions of section 3 of this Act, to make an immediate report thereof to the State Board of Health of the State of Illinois upon blanks to be furnished by said board upon request, and if no such disease or illness is found, the physician shall so report, and if any such disease is found, the report shall state the name, address, sex and age of such employé and the name of such employer, and the nature of the disease or illness with which the employé is afflicted, and the probable extent and duration thereof, and the last place of employment: Provided, that the failure of any such physician to receive the blanks of the State Board of Health for the making of such report, shall not excuse such physician from making the report as herein provided.

5. The secretary of the State Board of Health shall, immediately upon receipt of any report from any physician in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of this Act, transmit a copy thereof to the Illinois Department of Factory Inspection.

6. Every employer engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act, shall provide, separate and apart from the workshop in which such employés are engaged, a dressing room and lavatory for the use of such employés who are exposed to poisonous or injurious dusts, fumes and gases, and such lavatory shall be kept and maintained in a clean and wholesome manner and provided with a sufficient number of basins or spigots, with adequate washing facilities, including hot and cold water, clean towels and soap and

shower bath, and the dressing rooms shall be furnished with clothes presses or compartments, so that the ordinary street clothes of such employés shall be kept separate and apart from their working clothes.

§ 7. No employé shall take or be allowed to take any food or drink of any kind into any room or apartment in which any process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act is carried on, or in which poisonous substances or injurious or noxious fumes, dusts or gases are present as the result of such work or process being carried on in such room or apartment, and the employés shall not remain in any such room or apartment during the time allowed for meals, and suitable provision shall be made and maintained by the employer for enabling the employés to take their meals elsewhere in such place of employment, and a sufficient number of sanitary closed receptacles containing wholesome drinking water shall be provided and maintained for the use of the employés within reasonable access and without cost to them.

§ 8. All employers engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act, shall provide and maintain adequate devices for carrying off all poisonous or injurious fumes from any furnaces which may be employed in any such process or manufacture, and shall also provide and maintain adequate facilities for carrying off all injurious dust, and the floors in any room or apartment where such work or process is carried on shall, so far as practicable, be kept and maintained in a smooth and hard condition, and no sweeping shall be permitted during working hours except where the floors in such workshop are dampened so as to prevent the raising of dust; and all ore, slag, dross and fume shall be kept in some room or apartment separate from the working rooms occupied by the employés, and where practicable, all mixing and weighing of such ore, slag, dross or fume shall be done in such separate room or apartment, and all such material shall, so far as practicable, be dampened before being handled or transported by employés.

§ 9. When any flues are used in any such process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act, and such flues are being cleaned out or emptied, the employer shall in every case provide and maintain a sufficient and adequate means or device, such as canvas bags or other practical device, or by dampening the dust, or some other sufficient method for catching and collecting the dust and preventing it from unreasonably fouling or polluting the air in which the employés are obliged to work, and, wherever practicable, the dust occasioned in any process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act, and any polishing or finishing therein, shall be dampened or wet down, and every reasonable precaution shall be adopted by the employer to prevent the unnecessary creation or raising of dust, and all floors shall be washed or scrubbed at least once every working day; and such parts of the work or process as are especially dangerous to the employés, on account of poisonous fumes, dusts and gases, shall, where practicable, be carried on in separate rooms and under cover of some suitable and sufficient device to remove the danger