Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask.
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- [1913]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BROOKLINE, MASS. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—PLACARDING, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OF CASES AND CON- TACTS—NOTIFICATION OF REMOVAL OF CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS—DISINFECTION— BURIALS. Article I. Communicable diseases. Sec. 1. (a) No child shall be allowed to attend school from anv household in which there is or has been a case of scarlet fever, for a period of six we^ks from the com- mencement of the last case in the household and until a certificate has been presented from the attending physician, the board of health or its agent, that all danger of con- veying the disease by such child is passed. (See section D.) (b) No child who has visited a house in which there was at the time a case of scarlet fever shall attend school until the expiration of two weeks following exposure, unless he has already had that disease, except by special permit from the agent of the board of health. (See Section D.) (c) No child who has diphtheria shall be allowed to attend school for a period of one week from the date of the second successive negative bacteriological culture from both nose and throat and until a certificate has been presented from the attending physician that all danger of conveying the disease by such child is passed; and that no well child be allowed to attend school from any household in which there is or has been a case of diphtheria until the same precautions have been taken, with the excep- tion that but one negative bacteriological culture, from both nose and throat, is required. (See Sec. D.) (d) The agent of the board of health may, if circumstances warrant (for example, removal of the patient to hospital), give to children not infected in a household in which there is or has been scarlet fever or diphtheria, a special permit to return to school as soon as he considers it safe for them to do so. (e) No child from any house where there is a case of scarlet fever or diphtheria shall be allowed to mingle with persons from any other house until after the removal, recovery, or death of the patient and the disinfection of the premises. (/) Every house infected with diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox shall havo affixed on or near the front and rear doors a card, furnished by the board of health, stating the disease to be avoided; and any unauthorized person removing such a card shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. Sec. 2. No child who has chickenpox shall be allowed to attend school until a period of two weeks has elapsed from the first appearance of the eruption and all scabs have disappeared. Sec. 3. No child who has German measles shall be allowed to attend school until a period of one week has elapsed from the first appearance of the eruption. Sec. 4. (a) No child ill with tuberculosis, who is a menace to the health of others, shall be allowed to continue in school. (b) Whenever a person with tuberculosis moves out of a house or an apartment, the attending physician, if there be one, or the active head of the family, shall so notify the board of health within 24 hours, and both of the above-mentioned persons shall be held legally responsible for violation of this order. Sec. 5. No child who has mumps shall be allowed to attend school until a period of three weeks has elapsed from the first signs or symptoms of the disease. . Sec. 6. No child who has measles and no child, who has not had the disease m a household in which there is a case of measles shall be allowed to attend school within two weeks from the appearance of the rash in the last case in such household. Sec. 7. No child with whooping cough and no child, who has not had the disease, m a household m which there is a case of whooping cough shall be allowed to attend school within eight weeks from the beginning of the cough and until the cough characteristic of the disease has ceased in the last case in such household bEC. 8. No child shall be allowed to attend school from any household in which there is or has been a case of cerebrospinal meningitis or of infantile paralysis until a certificate has been presented from the board of health or its agent. Article II.—Disinfection. , uEC'ii Such rooms and such articles in any house as in che opinion of the board of health have been subjected to infection or contagion from smallpox, scarlet fever dSniS ^effiospmal m^in*itis’ j“e paralysis, or tuberculosis, shall be J iec!e, ]b1y the board The attending physician or the agent of the board of de?dK ^-each case as t0 ^ ])r°Per time for disinfecting, and shall then notify the board; but m no case of scarlet fever shall disinfection be done in less than](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
