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]
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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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    of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, or smallpox, shall wear a contagious-disease gown, the same to be properly disinfected in formaldehyde or bichloride solution after each visit. Rule 21. In case of death from scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, or smallpox, body shall be privately conveyed to the cemetery and buried therein without any public funeral services. In such cases burial shall be within 24 hours after death, except when otherwise permitted by health officer. Rule 22. No person sick with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, smallpox, tuber- culosis, or any dangerous communicable disease, no corpse of a person having died from any of the above-named diseases, and no article which has been infected or is liable to convey any such disease shall be brought within the limits of the city without the special permit and direction of the board of health. Rule 23. In case of recovery or death from any of the aforementioned contagious diseases, the person’s clothing, rooms, and all such articles as shall have been exposed to infection shall be disinfected, and all such articles as can not be thoroughly disin- fected shall be destroyed by burning. Rule 24. No house or tenement vacated by a person or persons affected by any of the above-mentioned diseases shall thereafter be reoccupied until it shall have been disinfected by the board of health. Rule 25. Pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption being regarded by the medical profession as an infectious and communicable disease and dangerous to the public health, it is ordered that every physician in this city attending any person havipg such disease shall forthwith report the same to the board of health, in the same manner as in the case of other contagious diseases, and every householder in whose family a case of pulmonary tuberculosis is known to exist, shall notify the board of health of the removal of the patient from the house or tenement, or of the removal of the family, giving the new address. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Oct. 2, 1911.] MARQUETTE, MICH. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—ARTICLES AND PLACES INFECTED WITH. That section 4 of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance relative to the public health,” adopted March 7, 1898, be and the same is amended so as to read as follows: “Sec. 4. No person shall knowingly bring or procure or cause to be brought into the city, any property of any kind tainted or infected with any malignant fever or pestilential or infectious disease; and no person, other than a licensed physician, shall enter or leave any vessel, vehicle, premises, building, room, or other place in the city while the same is quarantined or placarded as a warning of the existence therein of any disease dangerous to the public health, unless authorized so to do by the health officer or the board of health.” [Ordinance adopted Oct. 2, 1911.] OIL CITY, PA. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—NOTIFICATION OF CASES AND DISINFECTION. Rule 46. Each and every physician practicing within the limits .of the city shall immediately report by telephone all cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, and smallpox occurring within their practice and confirm such report by the regular mail report within 24 hours, and all additional cases of reportable diseases occurring in a family already under quarantine shall be reported on the regular report blank. Rule 47. It shall be the duty of every person, or persons, the keeper or proprietor of any boarding or lodging house or hotel to report to the board of health any knowledge they may have of the existence of any person or persons suffering from tuberculosis in any form. Rule 48. Adequate disinfection or fumigation of all premises, furniture,, or belong- ings, used or occupied by any person or persons suffering from tuberculosis, shall be made by the board of health immediately upon the death or removal of said person or persons. Rule 49. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corporations, owner or agent, to let any house, or part of a house or building or apartments, which has been occupied by any person or persons suffering from tuberculosis, without first reporting the same to the board of health and a proper fumigation or disinfection of the premises being made by the board of health.
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