Kelowna Record
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-08-30
issued: 1914-04-23
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note: A Proposal to Regulate SANITARY CONDITIONS SHOULD BE IMPROVED���STREET WATERING BY-LAW Pacific Coast Pipe Co., having quoted the lowest prioe for wood pipe. A resolution was therefore pushed authorising the committee to purohase a car of pipe from the above company. The city clerk was also authored I to call for tenders for supplies for the new electric lighting system. That a by-law be passed imposing some much needed sanitary regulations upon the various Chinese laundries in the oity was the request contained in a letter which waB read before the council at lost Friday morning's meeting from Mr. S. M. Gore, of the Kelowna Steam Laundry. The letter ran as follows: e Gentlemen,��� As the proprietors of n laundry, organized and conduoted by white citizens, conforming with your by-laws and suggestions in so far as they exist as applied to laundries, we bog lo make the following request, basing our appeal upon the standpoint ol publio health:��� That by-laws should be made and strirtly enforced regarding the sanitary conditions of laundries and restaurants, and we would therefore make some suggestions for laundry regulations. "That no laundries be allowed to accept bundles from houses where it is known any infectious disease exists. "That there bo a proper sterilization of all white goods. "That there be a proper separation of unwashed from washed goods. "That there be a proper separation of very dirty goods (suoh as camp laundry, frequently full of vermin) from the reorular articles. "That general cleanliness of entire premises be insisted upon. "That premises be inspected at least one* a month. "That laundry buildings must 1. be used for sleeping or eating in." We think our appeal is a fair one, for besides the ground of public health we think some regulations are due to us for our mm protection. We are in every sense , "white" laundry, employing white help and runn'nv a snni Inry business.. Most ol the money paid into the many Asiatic laundries crosses the Pacific, …
note: Titled The Orchard City Record from 1908 to 1911-11-16. Titled Kelowna Orchard City Record from 1911-11-23 to 1915-01-14. Titled Kelowna Record from 1915-01-21 to 1920-09-30 Print Run: 1912-1920 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Kelowna (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0180719
language: English
lat: 49.8880556
long: -119.495556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Kelowna B.C. : John Leathley
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