Council may restrict washing of clothes by washermen to public laundries.
Public
Laundries
to be registered
Laundries
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Laundries.
129. The Urban Council may, by public notice, prohibit the washing of clothes by washermen in the exercise of their calling except at public laundries or at such other places as it may appoint for the purpose.
130. Every public laundry shall be registered at the office of the Council.
131. Every public laundry shall be at all times open to to be open to inspection by any member of the Urban Council or Health
Officer or Sanitary Inspector.
inspection.
Lighting, ventilation and paving.
Drainage
to comply with require-
ments of
Buildings
Ordinance.
Require-
ments re cleansing.
Laundries not to be used as
dwellings.
Restriction of dwellers to two caretakers.
Precautiona against
spread
of skin diseases or
infections diseases,
Sanitary
require-
meats,
132. Every public laundry shall be adequately lit and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Urban Council, and the ground surfaces shall be paved with a layer of not less than 6 inches of good lime-concrete, or not less than 3 inches of comment-concrete composed of one part of cement, 3 parts of sand. and 5 parts of stone broken to pass through one inch ring, and the surface thereof shall be rendered smooth and impervious with a layer of asphalt, or cement-mortar of not less than inch in thickness, or such other material as the Council may approve of.
133. Every public laundry shall be so drained as to be in accordance with the requirements of the Buildings Ordinance, and all inlets to the drains shall be placed outside the building
134. Every public laundry shall be at all times kept in a cleanly condition and the inside surface of the walls thereof shall be limewashed during the months of January and July of each year.
135. No portion of any laundry shall be occupied as a dwelling place or used for the purpose of cooking food.
136. No persons other than two caretakers, may occupy any building or part of a building which is registered as a public laundry. between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., unless such persons are actively engaged in carrying on the work of the laundry.
137.-(1) No person suffering from any skin disease. leprosy, tuberculosis or infectious disease, shall enter, live, work, or be employed on any premises used as a laundry.
(2) The occurrence of any infectious or contagious disease on any premises used as a laundry shall immediately be re- ported to the Health Officer by the licensee.
(3) No public laundryman shall knowingly receive any article whatsoever from or belonging to or used by any person living in any house where there is an infectious or contagious disorder.
138.(1) All utensils used in a laundry shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
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(2) No dogs, poultry, or domestic animals shall be kept on the premises of a laundry.
(3) No person shall sit, recline or sleep amongst the clothes in any laundry or on any bench, table or cloth used for laundry work,
(4) No dirty or polluted water shall be used for laundry work.
(5) No person shall spit or commit a nuisance.
(6) Separate rooms shall be used for :-
(a) the reception of dirty clothes.
(b) the storing of clean clothes.
Maintenance of Sanitary Conditions in Factories.
139. Whenever appears to the Urban Council that any Nuisances in brewery or distillery, or any factory, workshop, or work-place workshops,
Factories or
is damp or that it is not adequately lighted or is not ventilated etc. in such a manner as to render harmless, as far as practicable, any gas, vapour, dust or other impurity generated in the course of the work carried on therein, or is not maintained in a clean-
ly condition, or is so overcrowded during the time in which work is carried on, as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, the Council may, by written notice, require the owner thereof to take such steps as the Council may consider necessary to prevent such dampness, or adequately to light or ventilate the same, or to render harmless as far as practicable any gas, vapour, dust or other impurity, or to cleanse the same, or to prevent the same from being overcrowded.
accommoda-
140. Every factory, distillery, godown or other indus- Proper trial establishment whatsoever employing not less than 20 latrine persons shall be provided by the owner thereof with a proper tion to be latrine accommodation on the premises, for the separate use provided.
of persons of each sex. to the satisfaction of the Council.
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141. Every factory and workshop must be kept in Maintenance cleanly state.
of cleanliness,
142. (1) All the ceilings and inside walls of a factory Lime-
washing. or workshop shall be limewashed at least once a year. If these have been oil painted or varnished they must be washed with hot water and soap once every fourteen months.
(2) The Urban Council may by special order grant exemptions from requirements as to limewashing or washing.
143. Every factory or workshop must he kept free from Avoidence effluvia arising from any drain, latrine, urinal or other of effluvia. nuisance.
tion
144. When less than 250 cubic feet of air space per Accommoda- person are provided in a factory or workshop such factory or according workshop shall be held to be so overcrowded as to be danger- to air-space. ous or injurious to the health of those employed therein.
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