The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
EIGHT FOOT BED SHEETS
IN TAVERNS.
New State Law to Go Into Effect on
May 6, Says Commissioner Wallis.

New State Law to Go Into Effect on
May s, Says Commissioner Wallis.
MANY REFORMS IN
SANITARY LAWS.
Bed Linen Must be Changed Daily
Al Rooms Must Have Outside
Window.-1oteIs Must Pay License
to do eusiness.-Law Governing
Slaughter Houses.
Lewiston Evening Teller: The
state pure food and sanitary inspec-
tor is in town and while he is here
on business before the district court
he is observing things in~ general and
business that does net come up to
the spirit of the law before leaving
town Jumes H. Wallis, is the OFF,
. cial in question, and he arrived here
yesterday. Mr.. Willis has many du-
ties to- perform. Besides looking az
ter the meat markets, testing CANNED
and bottled goods, inspecting every
kind of sanitary conditions by the
new drug act he is made drug inspec-
tor of the sHite aid he will soon
wage a war on proprietary medicines
where such articles conflict with the
law.
Hotels will come strictly under Nthe
b;An OF the sanitary inspector after
Nifty 9Th. Guests will have the pleas
ure OF getting between 8-foot bed
sheets. There will be mo more sleep
ing in dark rooms, r.o more shiverjng
from the want of plenty Of covering,
clean towels d.ily all over the hotel,
no inside rooms permitted, in fact,
many reforms that Will be carried out
when Cnce the new Law is put into
force. Hotels will hereafter pay the
state hce-se to conduct "a business.
1T will be remembered THAT during
the discussion of the hotel bill in the
legislature" said Commissioner Wal
lis, much sport was made of the pro-
vision requiring bed sheets to be not
less THAN eight feet in length. But
this is one of the Wisest provisions OF
the bill In many of the rural hotels
and cheap lodging rooms of this state
the quilt or comforter rolled up at
the foot of the bed hardly ever sees
the sunlight, or are exposed to the
fresh air 1t may have been bra1thed
on by consumptive one night, and
the neXI night be used by a we'll per
sol.. 1t is for the purpose of having
enough linen to cover the top part
OF Cnese comforters th.t sheets are
required to be at least eight Ieet in
length.
lie new law does away with the
roller towel in public WASH rooms land
requires individual towels for each
guest, lid L.L Lease Two i'll each room.
Ne room can be rented which does
not contain AN outside window, or
some other proper means of ventila-
ton. In all hotels where fifty cents
or more per day is charged ter louS-
ig, the sheets and pillow cases must
he changed after the departure OF
e..ch lsuest All windows and doors
must be properly screened, and every
possible means used to keep out the
flies. All rates shall be posted in
conspicuous place in al hotels, and
shall be based on "a tWenty-four hour
day, it beiDg construed by this law
tht rates per day for furnished
rooms shall mean for tWenty-tour
hours, or any part thereof. following
the time or 3accept-ll ce OF room by
d guest
1T is made the duty of every hotel
management to- see TINT the drp. king
WAGER suppAel is pure and free from
disease germs. Ample provisions are
1uslde for the protection of guests
,,aln9t fire, by requiring fire escapes
gonss, red lights, tire eXJlmguisners,
rope ladders, etc, according TO the
SIZE OF tne hotel Ashes must not be
dumped ca amy ground ~idJacu~t TO
hClel or in amy clubhouse, unless the
same be placed in L. hSlnt, metal con-
ti.aer, with a light install lid. AN
puil.lngs wh1re sleeping a1comotiA-
uCns are furnished for hire to tram
ient guests, Whether with or without
meals, in which to- CT more rooms
IRE used, Ire 4or the purposes Oh the
new law, defined to be hotels, and
nave to be inspected and lleeAsed
after My 6, next, wAen the new law
/ becomes effective.
"Hctels5 containing 20 rooms or less
ray s. per year; over 20 rooms and
ulcer 100, $40; over 100 rooms, $50.
III PERM nent changes or alterations
in any buildings necessary to conform
10 the new NV, must be mtlae by the
owner thereof This law also re-
uuires all restaura- is boarding houses