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.
- Date:
- [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.
12/220 page 10
![four weeks from the commencement of the last case in the household (except by special permit of the agent of the board); and in diphtheria disinfection shall not be done until alter at least two successive negative bacteriological cultures from both nose and throat have been obtained. Sec. 2. Articles which have been exposed to infection, or those which have been m contact with a patient within IQ days prior to the diagnosis of any of the above- named diseases, shall not be sent to any laundry or other workshop unless they have been first disinfected by the board of health. Sec. 3. Refuse from the sick room of a person having any of the above-named diseases, shall not be put into any waste receptacle without being first disinfected. Sec. 4. All books which have been used by a patient having any of the above- named diseases, or otherwise exposed to infection, shall not be returned to any library, school, or circulating agency, without first being disinfected by the board of health! [Ordinance board of health, adopted Nov. 6, 1911.] Article VIII. Burials. Article VIII. Section 1. No public funeral shall be held over the remains of any person who has died of smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cerebrospinal menin- gitis, or infantile paralysis without the written permit of the board of health, and under such regulations as may prevent the spread of any of said diseases. The remains of any person who has died from any of said diseases shall at once be placed in a tight or sealed coffin, and shall not thereafter be exposed to view or disturbed except for burial. _ Sec. 2. That in case of death where the deceased had not been attended by a prac- ticing physician, the certificate of death shall be issued by the medical examiner. Sec. 3. That no dead body of any person shall be carried to any cemetery, or from one place to another within the town, in any public vehicle other than a hearse or undertaker’s vehicle provided for that purpose. [Ordinance, board of health, adopted Nov. 6, 1911.] EAST PROVIDENCE (TOWN), R. I. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—NOTIFICATION OF CASES, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, FUNERALS. Section 1. Every physician having knowledge of the existence of any cases of contagious, infectious, or epidemic disease within the town of East Providence shall immediately make report thereof to the health officer of said town, with such particu- lars as said health officer may indicate, on blanks furnished for that purpose. Sec. 2. The diseases referred to in the preceding section shall include cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, intermittent fever, anterior poliomyelitis, commonly called infantile paralysis, and such other contagious, infectious, and epidemic diseases as the health officer may from time to time designate. Sec. 3. Any physician who shall fail to comply with the provisions of the preceding sections shall be fined not less than $2 nor more than $10 for each day of such neglect after having knowledge thereof as aforesaid. Sec. 4. Every physician, householder, or other person having knowledge of the existence of scarlet fever, diphtheria, or other contagious disease in any house or place in said town shall forthwith give notice of the same to the health officer, who shall without delay cause to be placed upon such house or place a card bearing the name of such disease, which card shall not be removed except by permission of such health officer. Sec. 5. No person living in a family whore there is a case of smallpox shall attend Bchool until the patient shall have passed the period of desiccation (falling off of scabs), nor until the house has been fumigated under the direction and to the satis- faction of the health officer, nor without certificate from said health officer that said period has elapsed and that said fumigation has been properly performed. Sec. 6. No person living in a family where there is a case of scarlet fever shall attend school until at least five weeks from the beginning of the last case, nor until the house has been properly fumigated in the manner hereinbefore provided, nor without certificate from the health officer setting forth said facts. Sec. 7. No person living in a family where there is a case of diphtheria shall attend school until at least one week after the recovery of the last patient, nor until said house has been properly fumigated in manner aforesaid, nor without a satisfactory certificate from said health officer. Sec. 8. The above rules shall, when deemed necessary by the health officer, be extended to all persons living in the same house where any of the above diseases exist, and said health officer may, in his discretion, extend the period of isolation specified in the preceding sections.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
