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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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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![linen thus treated may then be washed and laundered in the usual way. Milk bottles are to be thoroughly washed in scalding water before being returned to the dealer. Discharges from the nose and throat of patients suffering from diphtheria, consump- tion, scarlet fever, or such other diseases as the board of health may direct are prefer- ably to be received in a paper sputum cup or on pieces of tissue paper or cloth, which should be at once placed in a paper bag and burned before they become dry; other- wise, they may be received in a receptacle containing one of the above-named disin- fecting solutions, which should be emptied frequently. All discharges from cases of typhoid fever should be disinfected by remaining in contact with at least a pint of a solution of 6 ounces of chlorinated lime to a gallon of water for at least one hour, after which the vessels may be emptied and cleansed. Upon termination or removal of all cases of diphtheria, membraneous croup, scarlet fever, consumption, or such other diseases as the board of health may direct, the premises must be disinfected in a manner satisfactory to the board of health. Regulation 12. No superintendent, principal, or teacher in any school or any parent or guardian of any child attending school shall permit a child sick with small- pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membraneous croup, measles, German measles, con- sumption, chickenpox, mumps, itch, lice, favus, ringworm, contagious impetigo, or such other contagious diseases as the board of health may direct, to attend school, nor shall any child residing in any household in which such disease exists be allowed to attend school without a permit from the board of health. No person living in any single house or apartment upon which a card has been placed, as required in section 7, shall attend school without a written permit from the board of health and the super- intendent of schools. hildren exposed to infection from diphtheria who have removed from the infected household may be admitted to school if cultures from the nose and throat do not show the germ of that disease. Those exposed to scarlet fever may be admitted if showing no unusual symptoms after an interval of 10 days from the last exposure. Children sick with measles, German measles, mumps, or chickenpox shall be excluded from school for two weeks, and in chickenpox until all crusts are removed. Other children in the family who have not had the disease are excluded for two weeks from the appearance of the last case. Cases of whooping cough are excluded for a period of one month and until a period of three days have elapsed without a “whoop.” Other children in the family are to be excluded if showing any signs of cough. Chil- dren w o have had these diseases may be admitted if in the opinion of the medical inspector it is safe to do so. [Regulations board of health, approved Nov. 1, 1911.] HOLLAND, MICH. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—NOTIFICATION OF CASES, PLACARDING, QUARANTINE, BURIAL, DISINFECTION. IV.—To prevent spread of contagious diseases. Rule 16. It shall be the duty of every owner, agent, and occupant of any dwelling house or other building in which there shall occur a case of diphtheria, scarlet fever* or smallpox, measles, whooping cough, pneumonia, typhoid fever, or consumption, or any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, to immediately give notice thereof to the health officers of this city. . Rule 17. Any physician who may be called to attend a case of anv of the aforemen- tioned diseases shall at once report such case to the health officer. Rule 18. No person sick with any of the diseases specified in Rule 16, nor anv clothing or other property that may have been exposed to infection, shall be removed, nor shall any occupant take up residence elsewhere, without the consent and under the direction of the health officer. Rule 19. Upon receipt of such notice as provided for in Rule No. 16, the board of health, or its officer, whenever in their opinion a disease dangerous to public health exists, will take the necessary measures, by placard, quarantine, and otherwise, to prevent the spread of such disease. Rule 20. No person shall remove or deface any card or sign from any building or premises which may have been placed there by order of the board of health or*the health officer. No occupant of said placarded building or premises shall leave the same, and no person, except the attending physician, nurse, and clergyman, shall enter the same without first obtaining the permission of the board of health or the health officer; provided, that such phvsician. or clergyman, when called in to a case 86019—13 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
