§ 5-6 LAUNDRIES

Every laundry establishment in the City and every laundry establishment doing laundry work for delivery in the City must comply with the following standards:

• a. Upon the completion of the laundering process, the count of active bacteria per cubic centimeter in the final bath of water in which the laundry is washed or rinsed shall not exceed that contained in the original water supply.

• b. Upon completion of the ironing process, the active bacterial content of the laundered material shall not exceed that contained in the original water supply.

• c. Upon completion of the laundering process, the alkalinity of the last rinse water souring shall not exceed that of the original water supply.

All employees of laundry establishments operating in the City or distributing laundry in the City who come in contact with laundry or laundry containers must exercise scrupulous cleanliness and be free from all communicable disease and must not be in a condition to disseminate the germs of any communicable disease.