Sec.22-17a-11. Lavatory, bathing and laundry facilities for workers' quarters

(a) Adequate handwashing, bathing and laundry facilities, with running water of approved quality, shall be provided. Hot water shall be available in adequate quantities.

(b) There shall be provided one lavatory or its equivalent for each fifteen persons or fraction thereof.

(c) Showers shall be provided in these ratios: One shower head for one to ten persons, except that, in case of quarters for less than five workers, a bathtub may be used in place of showers with the approval of the local director of health; two shower heads for eleven to 40 persons; one shower head for each twenty persons or fraction thereof where over forty persons are housed.

(d) There shall be provided one laundry tub for each twenty-five men or one laundry tub for each twenty women, plus adequate facilities for clothes drying.

(e) Shower room floors shall be scrubbed daily with soap and water Swabbing with a chlorine solution having a strength of not less than 0.5% available chlorine is an additional safeguard.

(f) Mats, cloth or other absorptive materials shall not be placed on bathroom floors or shower room floors.

(g) Duck boards shall not be used in shower rooms.

(h) Each shower room or bathroom shall be adequately ventilated by freely opening windows that shall be screened with sixteen mesh wire screen.

(i) Use of common towels shall not be permitted.

(See Reg. 19-13-B62.)