Raleigh, N.C., Aug. 21 (AP)—New rules and regulations of the State Board of Health governing the sanitary management of county jails and convict camps in North Carolina require that the sanitary inspector of each jail or camp shall post in a prominent place a large placard bering the word in large letters “Approved” or “Disapproved.”
If the latter sign is posted, it must remain until the faulty conditions have been remedied.
The new regulations for countu jails call for fireproof construction of all new jail buildings and that all the old ones shall be free from all fire hazards; that all jails shall be well heated, that prisoners shall be segregated as to race, sex and age; that the jail shall have at least five separate compartments; that there shall be an isolation room for the sick, and that there shall be adequate light, ventilation and drainage.
Prisoners must take baths and jails must be equipped with running water for this purpose.
Garbage must be collected frequently an the walls and fllors of the jails must be kept clean.
Beds must be kept free from vermin and bedclothes sunned at least once each week. The beds must be cots and so constructed that the air may circulate freely beneath them.
Prisoners must have seats and cuspidors.
Adequate clothing must be provided with a change of under and outer garments each week. All prisoners must have long night shirts.
The diet of prisoners must be balanced and at least one meal each day must contain green vegetables or fruit.
Rules for convict camps ae virtually the same as those for the county jails.
It is required that the cap be located on dry ground and away from possible sources of infectious disease. The water supply must be approved by the State Board of Health. A common dipper must not be used.
Regulations governing the sleeping quarters are stringent enough to make illegal the employment of any of the traveling cases such as have been used in the past for housing convicts.
Each prisoner must be supplied with an individual wash basin, soap and towel, and warm water must be provided in cold weather.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 21, 1926
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