Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-20
COUNTY HEALTH BOARD
MEETS

AS SSeAsJ A|SeA ~ VI AAN0lS
. met in Halifax the first Monda
: in February and passed laws
I governing the sale and handlin,
! of food stuff. The sanitar,
: management of Hotels, prohibi
) ting the common drinking buckle
and dipper, in the schools rail
way stations, cafes, etc. ant
} giving the Health Officer the
authority to require all schoo
children to be vaccinated before
being allowed to attend school,
when in his opinion the vaccna-
tion is needed to protect the pub.
lie and the school children.
The laws governing the sale
and handling Of food stuff will
govern any factory, store, hotel,
restaurant, lunchroom, cafe,
fountain, or any place where
food is manufactured, transport
ed, handled, sold or offered Tor
sale, or given away for public
consumption. 1t requires all such
places to be screened from flies,
and other insects, and foodstuff
to be protected from public
handling, dust and dirt at all
times. 1t prohibits any porson
from using as living quarters
any room in which food stuff is
stored or kept for sale. 1t re-
quires all foodstuff exposed for
sale in any store, side walk, or
vehicle, to be at all times at
least two feet from the ground
floor or side walk, so as to be
protected from the excretion of
dogs.
This will also require every
cup, glass dish or other utensil,
used in the consumption of food
or drink in any hotel, restaurant,
lunchroom, cafe, soda fountain,
ice cream parlor, stand or other
public eating place in Halifax
county, after each service to be
thoroughly cleaned, and INNER
sed in boiling water, or exposed
to dry heat at three hundred de-
grees, F, or exposed to live steam
not less than three minute; Pro-
vided that in lieu of the above
requirements, Individual utensils
may be used. This will also pro-
hibit any person suffering from
any contagious or infectious
disease working in such a place
and gives the Health Officer the
authority to require a health GER
tificate from any walters or
mattresses handling food ordrink. |
This law has already gone in
to effect and many such places
have already complied with the
law.
The laws governing the Sani-
tary management of hotels will |
cover every building or struc-
ture, kept and used as or adver-
tised as, or held out to the pub
lie to be a place where rooming
and Accommodations are furnished
to the public, whether with or
without meals, is considered a |
hotel under this law. 1t requires
every hotel to have sanitary
mode of disposal of sewerage, a
toilet and labratory for each sex
which will be seperate and dis
tinct, and same shall be kept in
a sanitary condition at all times.
1t provides that the laboratory
shall be provided with individual
or liquid soap, and individual or
paper towels. Requires all win
dows and doors to be screened,
or every bed to be provided
with a mosquito bar. Every
sleeping room must have a floor
space of not less than GO square
feet, and under no circumstances
provide less than 500 cubit feet
of air space. Two sheets and pill
low slips are required, these
must be clean and large enough
in case for the sheets to cover
the beds. Requires that any
room in any hotel in which ver-
min are found to be closed to
occupancy until such room is
free from same. Whenever the
sanitary conditions of any hotel