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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1964.
(No. 30 of 1960).
COMMERCIAL BATHHOUSES BY-LAWS, 1961.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 35 of the Publ Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council bu made the following by-laws-
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These by-laws may be cited as the Commercial Bathhous By-laws, 1961.
2. These by-laws apply to the urban areas only.
3. (1) In these by-laws, save where the context otherwis requires—
"bath" includes shower bath;
"bathhouse" means any premises maintained or intended to be main tained for the use, on payment of a fee, of persons requiring a bat but does not include any swimming pool or any bathhouse managal by the Council;
"bathroom" includes a room or compartment containing a shower: "communicable disease" includes amoebiasis, cerebrospinal meningitis
cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, enteric fever, gastroenteritis, acut inflammation of the throat, infectious hepatitis, leprosy, any fam of tinea infection, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, pediculosis, scabies scarlet fever, smallpox, any venereal disease or any generalized sin infection, trachoma, acute conjunctivitis and any other diseas which the Council may, from time to time, declare to be a com municable disease for the purposes of these by-laws;
“Council" means the Urban Council.
(2) Whenever the Council declares any disease to be a coo municable disease for the purposes of these by-laws, a notification d such declaration shall be published in the Gazette.
4. Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the of unlicensed Council, no person shall open or maintain a bathhouse.
bathhouses.
Application
for licence.
5. (1) Every application for any such licence shall be made in writing, addressed to the Secretary of the Council, and shall be accom panied by three copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of the premises comprising the bathhouse.
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(2) Every plan, or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Council shall be endorsed to that effect by the Secretary of the Council, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the remaining two copies shall be retained by the Council.
6. No such licence shall be granted unless the Council is satisfied Conditions
for grant of in relation to the premises in respect of which the application for such
licence. licence was made that-
(a) the plan referred to in by-law 5 has been approved by the
Council and the premises conform thereto;
(b) the means of ventilation provided, whether natural or mechanical or partly natural and partly mechanical, are suf- ficient in every part of the premises to safeguard the health in that respect of all persons resorting to or working in the premises;
(c) the means of lighting provided in every part of the premises
is adequate:
(d) the internal surface of every wall of each bathroom therein is smooth and faced with impervious material to a height of not less than six feet from the floor;
(e) the floor of each such bathroom is smooth and surfaced with impervious material, and is laid to such fall as will provide effective and rapid drainage of all water falling thereon:
( the junctions between the walls and between the walls and the
floor of each such bathroom are coved:
(g) where the bathhouse receives persons of both sexes, bathing. latrine and washbasin facilities are provided in separate com- partments for the use of persons of each sex, and no direct access is available from a compartment provided for the use of persons of one sex to a compartment provided for the use of persons of the opposite sex;
(A) there is available within the bathhouse, for the use of persons resorting thereto, not less than one watercloset and one wash- basin for every ten baths therein, and, where the bathhouse receives persons of both sexes, there is not less than one water- closet and one washbasin for every ten baths or less provided for each sex)
(all baths, washbasins and other similar fittings bave smooth
washable surfaces and are properly drained; and
save as otherwise permitted in writing by the Council, all water supplied for bathing or washing purposes is drawn from Government maios.