(v) for a birthing center with facilities for admission, a delivery room with a floor area of 9 square meters or more is installed; provided, however, that this does not apply to birthing centers which do not handle delivery; 

六 火気を使用する場所には、防火上必要な設備を設けること。 

(vi) equipment necessary for fire prevention is installed in a place where fire is used; and 

七 消火用の機械又は器具を備えること。 

(vii) a fire extinguishing machine or tools are provided. 

２ 前項に定めるもののほか、助産所の構造設備の基準については、建築基準法の規定 に基づく政令の定めるところによる。 

(2) Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the standards for the buildings and equipment of a birthing center are governed by Cabinet Order based on the provisions of the Building Standards Act. 

第十八条 削除 

Article 18 (Deletion) 

（昭二九厚令一三） 

(Order of the Ministry of Health and Welfare No. 13 of 1954) 

第十九条 法第二十一条第一項第一号の規定による病院に置くべき医師及び歯科医師の 員数の標準は、次のとおりとする。 

Article 19 (1) The standards for the numbers of physicians and dentists a hospital should have under Article 21, paragraph (1), items (i) of the Act are as follows: 

一 医師 精神病床及び療養病床に係る病室の入院患者の数を三をもつて除した数と、 精神病床及び療養病床に係る病室以外の病室の入院患者（歯科、矯正歯科、小児歯 科及び歯科口腔外科の入院患者を除く。）の数と外来患者（歯科、矯正歯科、小児 歯科及び歯科口腔外科の外来患者を除く。）の数を二・五（精神科、耳鼻咽喉科又 は眼科については、五）をもつて除した数との和（以下この号において「特定数」 という。）が五十二までは三とし、特定数が五十二を超える場合には当該特定数か ら五十二を減じた数を十六で除した数に三を加えた数 

(i) physicians: when the sum of the number obtained by dividing the number of patients hospitalized in sickroom(s) with psychiatric bed(s) or long-term care bed(s) by 3, the number of patients hospitalized in sickroom(s) other than those with psychiatric bed(s) or long-term care bed(s) (excluding dental, orthodontic, pediatric dental, and dental surgery inpatients), and the number obtained by dividing the number of outpatients (excluding dental, orthodontic, pediatric dental, and dental surgery outpatients) by 2.5 (or 5 for the department of psychiatry, otorhinolaryngology, or ophthalmology) (hereinafter referred to as the "specific number" in this item) is 52 or less, three; or when the specific number exceeds 52, the number obtained by 

