The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-10


cupied by any other person.
8. The proprietor of every hotel or
restaurant shall keep the same clean
and in sanitary condition.
4. Every hotel or restaurant must
be provided with pure and unpolluted
water and cisterns or tanks from
which water is taken to be drunk by
the guests shall be screened with wire
gauze so as to prevent the entrance of
flies, mosquitoes and other disease
breeding insects. The use of the com
mon drink cup is prohibited
5. The proprietor or keeper of
every hotel or restaurant must screen
the doors, windows and all openings
of the kitchen and dining room with
wire cloth, or wire gauze with IS
mesh to the square inch. Every hotel
must have all bedroom windows
mosquito bar for the use of it's pa
irons for protection against flies, mos
quitoes and other insects.
6. All hotels shall hereafter pro-
vide each bed, bunk, cot or other
sleeping 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 80 inch
es long and folded back at the head
so as to cover all such top covering.
: All such pillow slips and sheets after
being used by one guest must be
washed and ironed before being used
by another guest, cleant set being
furnished each succeeding guest.
7. All bedding used in a hotel shall
be thoroughly aired in such reason
able manner as shall be approved by
7 the State Board of Health.
g. All hotels shall furnish each
, guest with a clean towel and the use
of the roller towel is prohibited.
/ 8. The refrigerator, ice boxes and
| cold storage rooms of all hotels or
restaurants must be free from foul
and unpleasant odors, mold and slime
The kitchen must be we'll lighted and
ventilated, the floor clean and the side
walls and ceiling free from cobwebs
and accumulated dirt.
10. All dishes, tableware and kitch
en- utensils must be thoroughly washed
and rinsed in clean water after using
food served to customers and then re
turned to the kitchen or serving room
must not again be served.
II H. All garbage must be kept GOV
cred in barrels or galvanized iron can
| and removed daily.
~. Spittoons must not be used il
the dining room or other places wher
food is served.
10. Toilets for employees or pull
lie use shall not be located in room
used for preparing or storing food.
/ IA. In all cities, towns or village
where a system of water-works O
sewerage is maintained for public us
every hotel therein shall be equippe
with suitable water closets for il
guests, which water closets shall b
connected by proper plumbing wit
such sewerage system. The was
bowls in the main wash room of sue
hotel must be connected and equippe
in similar manner.
Is. In all towns and villages nc
having system of water-works ever
hotel must be provided with sanitar
privies, which shall be kept in a clea
and sanitary condition.
1G Persons suffering from canoe
or any contagious or infectious diseas
or who have been exposed to quaral
Unable disease shall not be employee
in any hotel or place where food
served.
II. No hotel shall keep a hog pc
in close promixity thereto.
IS. The official representative {
the State Board of Health shall upo
inspection give each hotel a ratin
based on the equipment and methC
employed in the management of Il
kitchen, store room, dining room, bt
rooms and its general sanitation. TIL
rating shall be made purely upon sa
itary conditions and the official scor
shall be designated as A, B, C and
classes. These symbols shall be ust
to mean hotels that are "first-clas
(A), those that are "second-clas'
OBJ, "third-class" CO., and those tn
are wholly unsanitary Cd.
Each hotel shall be informed of
scores and these scores shall be ma