The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-07-18
REGULATIONS FOR HOTELS.
Published by the South Carolina
Board of Health.

LQe EXECUTIVE SoIlltilltlSS VI Yin
State Board of Health to make and
promulgate rules governing the
sanitary condition of hotels, restau-
rants, cafes, boarding and lodging
houses are given for the information
of and enforcement by those most
concerned, and upon the request of
DR. James A Hayne, secretary State
Board of Health:
1T shall be unlawful for any per-
son, persons, firms or corporations
to empty, or cause to be emptied,
the slops or offals of their respective
establishments in the streets.
Every person who shall be the
owner, lessee, or keeper or manager
of any tenement house, boarding
house, lodging house, or manufac-
tory, shall provide, or cause to be
provided, for the accommodation
thereof, and for the use of the
tenants, dodgers, boarders, and
workers thereat, adequate privies or
water closets, and the same shall be
so adequately ventilated, and shall
at all times be kept in such cleanly
and wholesome condition as not to
be offensive, or be dangerous or
detrimental to life or health. And
no offensive smell or gases, from or
through any outlet or sewer, or
through any such privy or water
closet. shall be allowed by any per-
son aforesaid to pass into such
house or any>part thereof, or into
any other house or building.
All hotels shall hereafter provide
each bed, bunk, cot or other Sleep
ing place for the use of guests with
pillow slips, under and top sheets,
the under sheet to be OF sufficient
size to completely cover the mattress
thereof, the top sheet to be of at
least equal width and to be at least
ninety-six inches long, and folded
back at the head so as to cover all
such top covering. Said pillow slips
and sheets must be made CT white
cotton or linen, and all such pillow
slips and sheets after being used by
one guest must be washed and iron
ed before being used by another
guest, a clean set being furnished
each succeeding guest.
In all cities, towns or villages
where a system of water works and
sewerage is maintained for public
use. every hotel therein shall, within
six months after the passage Of this
act. be equipped with suitable
water closets for the accommoda-
tion of its guests, which water
closet shall be connected by proper
plumbing with such sewerage sys-
tenn, and there shall be some means
of flushing said water closet with
the water of said system in such
manner as to prevent sewer gas
from arising therefrom. The wash
bowls in the main wash room of
such hotel must be connected and
equipped in similar manner, both as
to method and time.
In all towns and villages not
having a system of waterworks,
every hotel not provided with water
works and wash rooms as in pre-
ceding section provided shall have
properly constructed privies as ap-
proved by the State Board of Health,
the same to be kept in sanitary con-
ditions at all times.
No owner or lessee Of any build
ing, or any part thereof, shall lease
or let, or hire out the same or any
portion thereof, to be occupied by
any person, or allow the same to be
occupied, as a place in which, or for
any one, to dwell or lodge. except
when said buildings or such parts
thereof are sufficiently lighted, VEN
tilated, provided and accommodated.
and are in all respects in that con-
dition of cleanliness and wholesome
nass for which they or either of