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promulgated by Executive Committee
State Board OF Health, Columbia, ). T.
June IL, 1912
l. Contagious Diseases Barred from
Public Vehicles.-No person known to be
suffering from the following contagious
diseases, smallpox, scarlet fever, dlph'
liberia, measles, whooping cough or Other
Quarantinable diseases shall be allowed tC
enter or ride IN any day coach, sleeping
car, inter-urban car or street car, anC
when any such person is discovered to be
in any car as mentioned above, 1t shall be
the duty Of the conductor or other indi-
vidual in charge of said car to notify the
nearest or most accessible county or city
health officer, and the latter shall remove
and isolate said patient as Is proper in
such case or circumstance.
2. When the health officer or physician
notified as provided in Regulation l shall
find any person in a car, boat or other
public conveyance TO be afflicted with any
Of the diseases mentioned above, said con-
veyance shall be turned over to the health
officer or physician, who shall treat such
cases as infected premises. When i'll the
Judgment OF the health officer or physician
the case is in such early stage OF develop
ment that other passengers are not af1ect-
ed, the patient shall not be removed from
the conveyance audit shall be allowed to
proceed. II the health officer or physl-
clan shall deem that the exposure is such
as to have infected the other passengers,
ne sha | call upon the person in charge to
! remove infected conveyance from service at
the first station where suitable accOmmo-
dationS can be secured, and such officer Oh
physician shall notify the health officer in
whose jurisdiction the infected convey
ance Is left.
8. Depots, etc., to be Ventilated and
Heated.-Each depot, railway coach, sleep
ing car, interurban car and street car
while in use for the accommodation OF the
public shall be properly ventilated, and,if
necessary, heated, and a sufficient amount
Of heat shall be furnishedin time OF need
so that fresh air can be supplied without
causing 1t to become unduly or uncom-
fortably cold; and the ~janitor, conductor,
caretaker or other person in charge Shall
see that the car is replenished with fresh
air from time to time as needed to pre-
vent the same from becoming foul, unsani-
tary or oppressive.
4. Cuspidors, to be Provided, Disinfect-
ed, etc.-Cuspidors must be provided in
adequate numbers in all waiting rooms OF
depOts and railway stations; each day
coach shall DO provided with one caspidor
for each seat OF every two chairs, and two
in each smoking car; except that In each
parlOr car there may be as few as one Gus
pidor to each section and three cuspidors
in the smoking department, one OF which
cuspidor, in the absence OF a dental lava
tory, shall be Of unusually large size and
placed near the wash basin for use in
washing the teeth; each aforementioned
cupsidor shall contain not less h one
third off pint OF all approved dislnfectant
solution, and the cupSidor shall be emp
tied, and washed in a similar solution and
replenished each trip or every "a hours.
5. Dry Cleaning Prohibited.-Dry dust
ing and dry sweeping is prohibited at all
times In waiting rooms OF depots and rail-
way stations, or in railway coaches, sleep
ing cars, interurban cars and street cars.
Busting OF passengers also prohibited ex-
i cept inyestibule or smoker.
s. Coaches to be Cleaned After Each
Trip; How Cleaned.-Railway day coach.
es shall be thoroughly cleaned at the end
Of each trip, and in no instance shall the
nday coach go unclaimed longer than two
days when such coach is in use; the thor
ough cleaning of day coaches shall consist
| as follows:
(a) Windows and doors shall be first
opened and the aisle strip, II there he any,
removed, and, when possible, thoroughly
%sunned..'r
() All upholstery shall be busted and
brushed, using the vacuum process clean
ing apparatus whenever possible,
() Floor mopped II swept, AFTER IL nau
been sptinkled with al approved disinfect-
ant solution, or preferably cleaned by
%sprinkllng.. with sawdust moistened with
| said approved disinfectant and sweeping.
/ After cleaning, as described, the floor
must be scrubbed with soap and water to
/ which may be added the same disinfect-
mt solution.
I'D Closet doors, ~urinals, toilet bowls
/ and walls must be cleaned by washing,
! securing and wiping with an approved
disinfectant solution, to which soda, ash
or other cleansing agent may be added.
(e) All arms of seats and window Lodges
must be wiped free Of dust with a damp
Aclpth-preferahly n wet with disinfect-
4 ant solution.
II u Provided, that where the vacuum
.Acleaning apparatus is installed and coach
I les are thoroughly cleaned with this meth
4 cd daily, the aforementioned method Of
brushing and %scrubbing may be used as
seldom as once in each period OF seven
days.
I. Interurban and Street Cars to be
Washed. Disinfected, etc.--Interurban
cars and street cars must be washed with
a hose and scrubbed thoroughly twice
every week, and must be disinfected with
formaldehyde gas under the supervision
J Of the local health authority Immediately