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438 PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS Tills chapter tab mainly with the bgblalien which affords a legal basis (or reducing the Incidence ol dlirasr among industrial workers. Particular attention b accorded those provisions In the Industrial laws which estaUbb mbhnum standsids (or Aluminatlou, ventilation and sanitation. Salety requirements, however, are also included. The General Safety Act of 1917, the basic State Industrial few, contains a broad variety of safety and health provi sions and Is the Ant statute summarised In the chapter. The Penn sylvania Occupational Disease Ad of 1919,* an ad drslgnrd to compensate employees or their funiBes (or disability or death oc casioned by specific occupetional diseases, b considered at the end of the chapter. Not Included In the chapter are the bwa relating to the hours ol employment ol women and children or workmen's compensation legislation. AomwisreartON Deportment oj Labor and lodrutry The Department ol Labor and Industry and the Department ol Health are the State administrative agencies principally concerned with the regulation of Industrial health. The Administrative Code ol 1919 grants authority to the Department o( Labor tad Industry to control industrial health. The Code requires the Department to Inspect (daces ol employment, to investigate Industrial accidents, and to prescribe safeguards for the prevention of accidents.4 The Code also authorises the Department to Issue rules and regulations for carrying Into effect the bwa governing employment and the tears regulating the construction and ventilation of places of employment and the equipment used therein.' Department of Health The Department of Health enttra the Add at industrial health control by virtue of the broad general health powers contained In the Administrative Code of 1929 requiring the Department to an ot jaw ii, nn, rx. ms. wsW n PS u ijoi rin. Adnlabinitvt Co*. | imiUMs). >1 H WlaMeL U. M 1109. It M. | HS. Although Mi -tfrccUy related to tedwtrtaj InM, (ha Dquianl of Labor and Indwtry b charged wUb (ha nferoaoi sad adrafahiratlno of the Act of May n, |r. Pi. *, u aaxadsdt S PJL H WI-9H which nyabta lha msfactor*, ab end baM of aew aad ttcoofthaort tsatstaate. pfibva aad other ttbd badiflof, roihlom end ell type* of aphoblrted fomhaie.