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

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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$required to report the case within 12 hours after his first attendance, to the State board of health, £>iving the nature of the disease, the name of the person sick, and his place of residence. (Acts of 1911, ch. 380, secs. 1-2.) ]\[idwives, nurses, etc.—Ophthalmia neonatorum: When one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen, or reddened, or show any unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after birth and no legally qualified practitioner of medicine is in attendance upon the infant at the time, it is the duty of the midwife, nurse, attend- ant, or relative having charge of the infant, to report the case in writing to the local board of health of the city, towmship, or other municipality within six hours. (Acts of 1895, Ch. CXVIII, sec. 1 ; also General Statutes, 1895, p. 1676, sec. 1.) Local health authorities.—Reports of disease made by physicians in pursuance to section 1, chapter 381, Acts of 1911, cited above, are to be entered in a book kept for the purpose by the officer receiving them. This officer is also required to transmit by mail to the State board of health a transcript of the reports received by him at least once a week, and daily wdien required by the State board. (Acts of 1911, ch. 381, sec. 2.) NEW MEXICO. HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLECTION OF MORBIDITY REPORTS. Tcmtory.—Provision is made for a board knowm as the New Mexico Board of Health and Medical Examiners, and composed of seven physicians appointed by the governor. This board elects one of Its members secretary. (Acts of 1907, ch. 34, sec. 1, as amended by ch. 99, Acts of 1909.) Counties. The board of county commissioners in each county annually contracts in writing with some reputable physician to be county health officer. The health officer so appointed is subject to the orders of the^ board of county commissioners, and may with the board’s consent appoint as many assistant health officers as the pub- hc health and safety require. (Acts of 1909, ch. 99, sec. 4.) Cities. The mayor and council, trustees or other governing bodies ot incorporated cities and towns constitute a board of health for the city or town. (Laws of 1901, Ch. XVII, sec. 25.) MORBIDITY REPORTS. P%siaa?is.—Whenever any physician or other person knows that any person is sick witli smallpox or other contaa:ioiis or infectious (isease, dangerous to the public health, he is required to at once give notice thereof to the mstice of the peace of the precinct in which the (lisease occurs if outside of an incorporated city, town, or village • if vyhin the limits of a city, town, or village, then the notice is to’be V ven county. Whenever such notice is hoottV* ffi ^ peace, it is his duty to at once notify the health officer ot the county. (Acts of 1903, ch. 103, sec. 19.) in y«':«--:yhenever any householder knows that any person eerous^^^flfe'^^K • or other contagious disease^ (Un- fame noHno ^ 7 health, he is required to immediately give the same notice thereof as is required of physicians. (Ibid., sec. 20.)$