68 BIENNIAL REPORT OP DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



"We recommend repeal of a portion of the above section because 

 of its redundancy which makes the section cumbersome and con- 

 flicting within itself. 



This section should be amended to be more brief; to provide that 

 seats for the use of female employees shall be installed and main- 

 tained for their use and that the seats shall be conveniently accessible 

 to the workers for whose use they are intended. 



The third change proposed is in Section 4. The diverse inter- 

 pretation of such unqualified words as "suitable and proper" make 

 this section difficult to efficiently enforce. 



"Every person, firm or corporation employing females shall 

 provide suitable and proper washrooms and water closets, or 

 privy closets where sewer connection is impossible, and shall 

 keep such closets at all times clean and properly screened and 

 ventilated and free from obscene writing or marking. If male 

 persons also be employed in the same establishment such em- 

 ployer shall provide closets for the men in a room entirely 

 separate from that to the room containing the women's closets. 

 A dressing room shall be provided by the employer for the women 

 when the nature of their work is such as to require any change 

 in clothing." Section 4866b-4. 



The department recommends amendment by ie-drafting of the 

 section to eliminate this vagueness. The changes proposed will, we 

 believe, clarify the intent of the section and will make for a more 

 efficient enforcement of the law. 



Our recommended changes are to establish a reasonable ratio of 

 toilets to the number of workers in places of employment, sanitary 

 construction which includes adequate ventilation; screened entrances 

 and other qualifications that would be definite and concrete. 



Respectfully submitted, 



EDWARD P. SEILLER, 



Chief Labor Inspector. 



