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]
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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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    (e) To require any person, or persons using the same, or occupying the premises whereon the same are situated, or owning said premises, to cleanse, disinfect, ventilate and purify the same, and to empty any such vault, water conduit, cesspool, sewer pipe or basin. (/) To require all persons infected with, or who shall have been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease and not properly isolated, to be removed to the city hospital. The said hospital shall also have the power to ascertain and determine the expense of such removal, and the expense incurred for medical care, attendance and support of the persons so removed, and to report the same to the commissioner of public safety. (g) To examine plans and specifications for plumbing and drainage submitted according to the rules and regulations of the health bureau, and to approve the same when in conformity with such rules and regulations, also to inspect the work of plumb- ing and drainage upon any premises in the city of Yonkers while the same is in prog- ress and at its completion, and to see that the rules and regulations of the said bureau as to plumbing and drainage are complied with. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the said health officer to personally investigate the sanitary condition of premises and the means employed for the isolation of the patient, in every case of smallpox, typhus fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and other dangerous contagious diseases occurring in the city of Yonkers, and to report the same in writing to the commissioner of public safety. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the health officer in every case of smallpox, typhus fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or other dangerous contagious diseases occurring in the city of Yonkers, to cause a printed notice or placard denoting the disease, to be placed on the apartment door of all houses occupied by more than one family, and upon the front door of houses occupied by one family, where a contagious disease exists. Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the health officer to cause all premises infected with contagious disease to be disinfected and fumigated at the expiration of quarantine, by, or under the supervision of, an inspector of the health bureau. Sec. 7. Whenever a physician’s report, pursuant to the provisions of section 12 of this sanitary code, shall have been received by the health officer, it shall be his duty to record and register in a book suitable for the purpose all of the facts and information stated in such report. Such report and register shall be the property of the health bureau, and shall be confidential, and not accessible to the public except on recommendation of the health officer and by a written order of the commissioner of public safety, when the information may be given for such scientific and sanitary purposes as may be deemed important. The commissioner of public safety shall furnish to the health officer all necessary blanks, envelopes, and postage stamps required for making such such report, the same to be delivered by the health officer to the physician. [Part of ordinance adopted Dec. 26, 1911.] /