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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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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![charge or control and having reason to believe that such animal is afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease, or for any other person having reason to believe that any animal is suffering with an infectious or contagious disease, to fail or neglect to immediately report in person or by telephone, to be followed forthwith by a report in writing, to the commissioner of health of the city of Seattle the existence of such diseased animal, the location and description of the animal afflicted or believed to be afflicted therewith, or to fail or neglect to report immediately to the commissioner of health the death of any animal occurring from any infectious or contagious disease, or the death of any animal suspected of dying from any infectious or contagious disease. Sec. 3. That whenever the owner or person having possession or control of any such diseased animal shall fail to keep the same confined upon his own premises and sep- arated from all animals not affected by the same disease, it shall be the duty of the chief of police, under the direction of the commissioner of health, to take such diseased animal in custody and confine or destroy the same as the commissioner of health shall direct; and it shall be lawful for the commissioner of health to cause any such animal to be destroyed if the same be affected by any infectious or contagious disease and incurable. All animals taken into custody and impounded by the chief of police, under the provisions of this ordinance, shali be fed and cared for at the expense of the city in the first instance, and all such expenses shall be a lien upon such animal, and the owner of such animal shall also be liable to the city for all such expenses for taking, feeding, and caring for the same, to be recovered by a civil action. Sec. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100 or imprisoned in the city jail for a term not to exceed 30 days, or be both so fined and imprisoned. Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days from and after its passage and approval, if approved by the mayor; otherwise it shall take effect at the time it shall become a law under the provisions of the city charter. [Ordinance No. 28229, adopted Oct. 23, 1911.] UNION (TOWNSHIP), N. J. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. Sec. 12. Every physician shall report in writing to the board of health the name of every patient he or she shall have affected with cholera, smallpox including varioloid, diphtheria, membranous croup, pulmonary tuberculosis, typhus, typhoid, scarlet and yellow fever, or any other contagious or infectious disease that may be hereafter publicly declared by this board to be dangerous to the public health, together with precise locality where such patient may be found, and such report shall be made within 12 hours after the first visit of such physician upon such person. All directions which the board of health shall prescribe for the purpose of preventing the spread of any disease, either by the use of disinfectants, fumigation, or otherwise, shall be strictly carried out, and any order that may be made by the board for the destruction of cloth- ing or other articles for the purpose aforesaid shall be promptly obeyed. Any person or persons failing to comply with, violating, or offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of $50. Sec. 13. That whenever it shall be deemed necessary by this board to establish the true character of any disease, which they may believe to be communicable, a medical examination of the person or persons affected by such disease may be ordered, and such examination shall be permitted by all attendants and persons. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of $20. Sec. 14. That no principal, teacher, or superintendent of any school, and no parent or guardian of any child attending any school, shall permit any child sick with any disease mentioned in section 12 or with any other communicable disease, or any child residing in any house in which such disease shall exist, to attend any school until such time as the attending physician certifies and the board of health approves that it can be done without danger of communicating the disease to others. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of $20. Sec. 15. That in case contagious or communicable diseases occur in this township the persons affected thereby shall at the discretion of the board of health be isolated or they may be removed to such locality as the board of health may order and direct. Sec. 16. 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