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(8) All cooking appliances, dressers, tables, boilers and ranges shall be arranged with a 15-inch clearance from the deck to facilitate the cleaning of the galley.
(9) The floor of every galley shall be constructed of tiles laid on cement or other suitable material in accordance with para- graph (9) of regulation 7 and shall be fitted with a non-slip surface in working spaces and also a gutter in a suitable position leading to an overside scupper for the purpose of facilitating drainage.
(10) The Director may exempt any ship from the provisions of this regulation if the ship is engaged exclusively in the river trade area.
31. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply, there shall be fitted an adequate number of fresh water tanks having an aggregate capacity sufficient for the total number of passengers that the ship is certificated to carry or is intended to carry, which- ever is the greater number, and for the voyages anticipated.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the total quantity of fresh water required to be carried shall be deemed to be adequate if the minimum capacity of the fresh water storage is sufficient for the consumption of at least 5 gallons of fresh water per day per passenger, exclusive of the water required for boiler purposes and for the crew of the ship.
(3) Where facilities referred to in paragraph (1) are available for distilling water on board a ship the total capacity of available fresh water storage tanks may be reduced; but at least half the total quantity required shall be supplied from sources other than the distiller.
(4) All fresh water storage tanks shall be clean and waterlight and shall, if they are situated adjacent to oil fuel storage tanks, be separated therefrom by a cofferdam to prevent contamination. (5) No fresh water storage tank shall be fitted below a deep tank not used for storing water of similar purity.
(6) No piping other than for a fresh water delivery system shall pass through a fresh water storage tank.
(7) The internal structure of every fresh water storage or service tank shall be such as to facilitate draining and cleaning thereof.
(8) All access manholes to fresh water storage tanks shall be sited clear of any sewerage tank, piping or other source of con- tamination and shall, if situate on a tank crown, be fitted with raised coamings or spurn waters.
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(9) Every air pipe and filling pipe to any such tank shall be led well clear of the deck and any other source of contamination. (10) Any pump used for delivering fresh water shall, except in case of emergency, be reserved exclusively for that purpose.
(1) There shall be fitted, independent of the main fresh water supply system, an adequate number of drinking water stations, fitted with suitable draw-off taps and suitably distributed, for the use of unberthed passengers.
(12) Such drinking fresh water draw-off taps shall be provided in addition to those provided in galleys and in washing accom- modation.
(13) For the purposes of paragraph (11), the number of drink- ing water stations shall be deemed to be adequate if there is provided not less than one for every 200 unberthed passengers or part thereof that the ship is certificated to carry or is intended to carry, whichever is the greater number.
(14) There shall be fitted to each such drinking water system filtering equipment approved by the Director.
32. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply cugaged in voyages of more than 48 hours duration, a properly constructed hospital, separate from the passenger and crew accom- modation, shall be provided.
(2) A separate dispensary, fitted with lockers, shelves and drawers for medical equipment in accordance with the Merchant Shipping Medical Scales and fitted with a full length sctice or examination table, shall be provided adjacent to each hospital.
(3) All hospital accommodation shall be situated in one part of the ship so that, if circumstances require it, the entire space of the hospital accommodation may be used for isolation purposes. (4) All bospital accommodation shall contain at least one lavatory, immediately adjacent to and having direct access from the hospital.
(5) Where any isolation hospital is provided as part of the hospital accommodation there shall be provided an additional lavatory, separate from that provided for the main hospital, baving direct access to any such isolation hospital.
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(6) All hospitals, dispensaries and adjacent lavatories shall
(a) constructed within permanently constructed steel erec- tions with a clear height of not less than 7 feet and in
Hospitals and dispensaries,
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