No laundry received from any hospital for contagious diseases shall be mingled with other laundry until it has been treated with live steam or water heated to a temperature of at least one hundred ninety degrees Fahrenheit (190° F.) for a period of thirty (30) minutes.Acts 1937, ch. 94, § 7; C. Supp. 1950, § 7182.47 (Williams, § 7182.49); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 62-1004.
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