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Sec. 3-248.  Sanitation, living conditions.
   (a)   Every home shall comply with the requirements in the building provisions of this Code relating to ventilation, floor space per patient, exits, fire escapes and stairways.
   (b)   Each ward or wing in such home shall have running water furnished in one (1) or more places either in the ward or convenient thereto so that the same may be adequate and convenient to occupants thereof. The plumbing, water closets, bathrooms and other sanitary appliances and equipment shall be constructed in accordance with the building provisions of this Code relating thereto. The floor of the cellar or basement in any building used as a home shall be properly cemented so as to be watertight.
   (c)   All homes, including the culinary department, dining rooms, laundry, laboratory, morgue and postmortem rooms connected with the same, shall be equipped from April 15 to November 15 with doors, screens and other appliances necessary for the exclusion of flies.
(Code 1972, § 3-10-7)
   Cross reference-Health and sanitation, Ch. 5.