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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    State hoard of health,.—The State board of health is required to keep a register of all cases in which the tubercle bacilli has been found present. Tliis register is not to bo open to inspection in such manner as to reveal the identity of the patient, except to a health officer. The recovery of cases is also to be recorded in the register. (Acts of 1911, cli. 6, sec. 3-5.1 NEW JERSEY. HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLECTION OF MORBIDITY REPORTS. State.—Provision is made for a State board of health composed of six persons appointed by the governor, one of whom must be a physi- cian, and becomes secretary of the board. (Act approved Mar. 31, 1887, sec. 1 as amended by sec. 1, ch. 299, Laws of 1908.) Townships.—In each township the township committee, the town- ship assessor, and one physician appointed by tne township committee constitute a board of health for the township. (Laws of 1887, ch. 68, sec. 10.) Cities.—Every cit}^, borough, and tovvm is required to have a local board of health. (Ibid., sec. 9.) MORBIDITY REPORTS. f Physicians, etc.—Every ])hysician is required to report within 12 hours to tlie local lioard of Iiealth having jurisdiction, or in the absence of such board to tlic assessor of the township, all cases of the following named diseases occurring in his practice: Cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, leprosy, plague, trichinosis, smallpox, varioloid, typhoid fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, malaria, tuberculosis in any of its manifestations, trachoma, rabies, glanders, anthrax, chicken pox, poliomyelitis, or any other contagious, infectious, or communicable disease which the State board of health may declare to be preventable and specially dangerous to the public health. The report is to be in writing, signed by the physician, and to include the name, age, and location of the person suffering from the disease. (Acts of 1911, ch. 381, sec. 1.) When no physician is in attendance, the case is to be reported within 12 hours by the house owner or householder in whose dwelling or building it occurs. (Ibid.) Physicians are to report in writing to the local board of health of the city, borough, town, or other municipality the name, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed, if known, and address of every person known by them to have tuberculosis. The report is to be signed and is to be made within 48 hours after the fact comes to the knowledge of the physician. Similar reports including the previous address are to be made within 48 hours by the chief officer naving charge for the time being of any hospital, asylum, prison, or other private or public institution, of every patient having tubercu- losis who comes under his care or observation. (Acts of 1910, ch. 169, sec. 1.) Every physician who attends any person sick with typhoid fever, dysentery, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or tuberculosis on any dairy premises where milk is jiroduced for sale or distribution, or in a household any member of which is employed at such a daily, is