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Without fanfare, the 1946 General Assembly passed a law rtgula ting the sale of second-h^nd bedding in Virginia, and now the problem of controlling public sales of pillowB and mattresses has been just about solved, the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene re- ported recently. ,
The bureau, an agency of the State Health Department, has two bedding inspector^, and | their work consists chiefly of checking inventories of bedding offerde for sale in retail stores.
The bureau reported this week that during the fiscal year ending June 60, its inspectors checked 4,723 stores, warehouses, factories, sterilizing units and auction houses in Virginia. They found - 1,493 \folations, but so far are proceeding upon an educational rather than an enforcement basis.
Until the bedding law was passed in 1946, sales of mattresses and pillows were unrestricted in the State.
(Perhaps the Bedding Act of 1940 was just a beginning, for many states outlaw altogether, the sale of -used mattresses and pillows. That, of course, is a drastic step and is not. contemplated at this time by the Stae Health Department, according to its officials.
When the State’s fiscal year ended June 30, 1948, there were 30 licensed sterilizers of beddingin Virginia. As of last June 39, the total -stood at - 69. That, according to officials, is a good indication as to how well the inspection program is progressing.
The law actually includes morq than mattresses and pillows; it takes in comforts and all types of quilted bed covers. It gives the Health Commissioner ((Dr. L. J. Roper) authority to prescribe the - terms and conditions.
The act provides that all second-hand bedding covered by the law and offered for sale must bear -
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