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On each floor of every day nursery or day nursery school building, any part of which is used for the care of children between the ages of two years and four years six months, there shall be provided one toilet facility for each ten children or fractional part thereof, and one lavatory for each ten children or fractional part thereof. Toilets and lavatories shall be of suitable height and size to be reached easily by the children. Adjustable steps for young children shall be available.
(Prior code § 6.08.360 (Ord. 349 § 22, 1951))
No person shall be kept, cared for, or maintained as a patient or aged boarder in any sleeping room which is occupied by one person, in any home for the aged or any mental institution, which provides less than eighty square feet of superficial floor area for each such person. Where a ward or semiprivate room is occupied by more than one person, there shall be provided not less than sixty square feet of superficial floor area for each such person. Beds shall be maintained at least three feet apart. Sleeping rooms or wards shall have a ceiling of not less than eight feet, and shall be well-lighted and ventilated to the outside air. Windows shall be one-half openable. The window area in any mental institution or home for the aged shall be not less than one-eighth of the superficial floor area.
(Prior code § 6.08.370 (Ord. 349 § 23, 1951))
No person shall cause, permit, or suffer any child to sleep in any sleeping room, occupied by one child, providing overnight care in any building of a private boarding school or children's boarding home which provides less than eighty square feet of superficial floor area for each such child. Where a dormitory or semiprivate room is occupied by more than one child, there shall be provided no less than sixty square feet of superficial floor area for each such child. Beds shall be maintained at least three feet apart. Dormitories and semiprivate rooms shall have a ceiling height of not less than eight feet, and shall be well-lighted and ventilated to the outside air. Windows shall be one-half openable. The window area in any private boarding school or children's boarding home shall be not less than one-eighth of the superficial floor area.
(Prior code § 6.08.380 (Ord. 349 § 24, 1951))
Any room or rooms in any building or a private day school, day nursery, day nursery school, or children's boarding home used for daytime rest periods shall provide not less than thirty-five square feet of superficial floor area for each child. Beds or cots shall be kept at least three feet apart. Such rooms or dormitories shall have a ceiling height of not less than eight feet, shall be well-lighted and ventilated to the outside air. Windows shall be one-eighth of the superficial floor area and be one-half openable.
(Prior code § 6.08.390 (Ord. 349 § 25, 1951))
A. Every owner or operator of a private day school, day nursery, day nursery school, private boarding school, or children's boarding home shall maintain a registry which shall show the name and birthdate and mother's maiden name of each child, and the address of his or her parents, or the names of guardians or other persons having legal custody and the name and address of the nearest kin.
B. Every owner or operator of a home for the aged or mental institution shall maintain a registry which shall show the name, address, and mother's maiden name of each aged or mentally ill person; the name, address, and nearest of kin of each such person; and the name and address of the person responsible for the care and maintenance of such person.
C. Such registry shall be open to the inspection of the health officer or any duly authorized officer or employee of the city.
(Prior code § 6.08.410 (Ord. 349 § 27, 1951))
Whenever because of an unusually high incidence of communicable disease in the community the health officer deems it necessary, he may by order require each child, before enrolling in such private school, private boarding school, day nursery, day nursery school, and children's boarding home, to be inspected for signs of communicable disease, and no person shall thereafter permit any child to enroll in such school, nursery or home without complying with the requirements of this section. Such inspection shall be made and certified to in writing within twenty-four hours of enrollment, by a physician in good professional standing, or by the health officer or his agent, and must reveal that such child showed no signs of communicable disease which would cause the child's association with other children to be in any way detrimental to their health.
(Prior code § 6.08.420 (Ord. 349 § 28, 1951))
Every child on returning after an illness of more than three days to a private day school, private boarding school, day nursery school, and children's boarding home, must present a certificate signed by a physician in good professional standing, or other practitioner authorized or permitted by law to practice in this state, or by the local health officer or his agent, or such other person designated by the health officer, stating that personal inspection of the child within twenty-four hours immediately preceding had revealed no signs of communicable disease which would cause the child's association with other children to be in any way detrimental to their health.
(Prior code § 6.08.430 (Ord. 349 § 29, 1951))
A. Daily, on admission, each child shall be inspected for suspicious signs of communicable disease and, if a child is under six years of age, such inspection shall be made before the child mingles with others.
B. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in charge of any of the institutions referred to in this chapter immediately to isolate any child or other person affected with an illness presumably communicable and immediately to make arrangements for his care in isolation quarters or exclusion from the institution as required by the health officer.
C. Whenever required by Section 2573 of the Health and Safety Code, or laws or statutes which may supersede said section, the health department shall be notified that such child has been isolated or excluded pending presentation of a readmission certificate obtained according to the following regulations: Any child or other person who has been isolated because of illness from, or contact to, a communicable disease, or suspected communicable disease, shall not be readmitted or permitted to mingle with others without presentation of a certificate issued by the local health officer or his agent, or by the attending physician, and countersigned by the health officer, stating that such child or other person is not liable to transmit a communicable disease.
(Prior code § 6.08.440 (Ord. 349 § 30, 1951))
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