Utility rooms shall be provided for all bed patients in any home for the aged or any mental institution. Such rooms shall be provided with a bedpan hopper or its equivalent. Bath tubs, lavatories, and laundry trays shall not be used for the cleaning of bedpans. Where one or more ambulatory or semiambulatory patient, inmate, or aged boarder is cared for or housed, there shall be provided at least one water closet for each seven, or fractional part thereof, patients or aged boarders of each sex; and one lavatory for each seven, or fractional part thereof; and one bath or shower for each ten, or fractional part thereof, patients or aged boarders of each sex within the building. All water closets and utility rooms shall be adequately lighted and ventilated to outside air; provided, however, that where there are less than seven ambulatory or semiambulatory patients, only one water closet and lavatory need be provided, regardless of sex.
(Prior code § 6.08.330 (Ord. 349 § 19, 1961))