A digest of the laws and regulations of the various states relating to the reporting of cases of sickness / by John W. Trask, Assistant Surgeon General ; prepared by direction of the Surgeon General.

  • Trask, John W., 1877-1951
Date:
1911
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Credit: A digest of the laws and regulations of the various states relating to the reporting of cases of sickness / by John W. Trask, Assistant Surgeon General ; prepared by direction of the Surgeon General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    must be physicians. This board is to be known as the city board of health and is appointed by the mayor. This board appoints a sec- retary who is executive officer of the board. (Ibid.) In counties with a population of less than 30,000 the board of county commissioners may, upon agreement with the mayor or mayors of any or all the incorporated cities within the county, consolidate the boards of health of one city, or the boards of all cities with the office of county health commissioner, and appoint a single health officer known as the county health commissioner. (Ibid.) Incorporated towns.—^The board of town trustees constitutes the board of health and appoints a town health officer. (Ibid.) MORBIDITY REPORTS. Notifiable diseases.—The diseases required to be reported immi, diately to the local health officer are yellow fever, smallpox, cholera- diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, measles, typhus fever, bubonic plague, leprosy, pulmonary consumption, typhoid fever, chickenpox, and whooping cough. (Rule 10, Indiana State Board of Health.) Physicians.—Physicians and midwives are required to report im- mediately to the secretary of the local board of health cases of con- tagious or infectious disease required by the State board of health to be reported. These reports are made on forms supplied by the State board of health. In cities and towns the reports are sent to the city or town health officer. Outside of cities and towns the reports are sent to the county health officer or his deputies. If no physician is in attendance the report is to be made by the householder or person hav- ing the case in charge. (Burns Annotated Statutes, 1908, sec. 7607.) Parents, etc.—Whenever one or both eyes of an infant under 2 weeks of age become inflamed, swollen, or reddened, or show any unnatural discharge, and no legally qualified physician is in attend- ance, it is the duty of its ])arents or caretakers to report the fact in writing within six hours to the health officer having jurisdiction. (Acts of 1911, ch. 129, sec. 3.) Town and city health ofiicers.—Town and city health officers enter the record of cases of infectious disease reported to them in a record book and by the 2d of each month forward the original infectious dis- ease reports received during the preceding month to the county health commissioner. (Rule 6, Indiana State Board of Health.) County health commissioners.—County health commissioners make a special monthly report to the State board of health by the 8th of each month for the preceding month, giving the number of cases re- ported of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, and mem- branous croup. They also make quarterly reports of contagious- diseases on blanks furnished by the State board. All books and docu- ments are kept at the county seat. (Rule 1, Indiana State Board of Health.) IOWA. HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLECTION OF MORBIDITY REPORTS. State.—The State board of health consists of the attorney general the State veterinary surgeon, one civil engineer, and seven physicians.