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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$MORBIDITY REPORTS. Physicians.—Every physician practicing in any portion of the State who treats or examines any person suhering from or afflicted with actinomycosis, anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebro-spinal menin- gitis (epidemic), cerebro-spinal fever (spotted fever), chickenpox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, membranous croup, putrid sore throat), epidemic dysentery, eiysipelas, German measles, glanders (farcy), rabies (hydrophobia), leprosy, malarial fever, measles, munu)s, pneumonia (true), puerperal fever, relapsing fever, scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), smallpox (variola, varioloid) tetanus, trachoma, trichiniasis, tuberculosis in any form, typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, uncinaria duodenalis (hook worm)/ pellagra,^ anterior ])oliomyelitis (infantile paralysis),^ or yellow fever is required, if said case is located in a township of the first class, a borough, or a city, to forthwith make a report in writing to the health authorities of said township, city, or borough; and, if the case is located in a township of the second class, or a city, borough, or township of the first class not having a board of health or body acting as such, to the State department of health, upon blanks supplied for that purpose, in which report he shall, over his own signature, state the nanie or the disease, and the name, age, sex, color, nativity, and occupation, if any, of the person suffering therefrom, together with the street and house number of the premises in which said person may be located, or otherwise sufficiently designate the same, the date of the onset of the diseasy the name and occupation of the householder in whose family the disease may have occurred, the number of children in said household attending school, and the name or names of the school or schools so attended, together with such other information relating to said case as may be required by said health authorities and the State department of health. (Laws, 1909, act 658, sec. ,1.) Local health authoritieshealth authorities of the several cities, boroughs, and townships of the first class are recjuired at the end of each week, and for the fraction of each week occurring at the end of the inonth, to report to the State department of health, upon blanl^ supplied for that purpose, a list of all cases of communicable diseases mentioned in the preceding paragraph, which have been reported to them durmg said period; which report is to contain the name of each person suffering therefrorn, respectively, and his or her age, sex, color and nativity, together with the name of tlie disease and the date of the onset thereof; and in the event of no reports of any of said dis- eases having been received by the aforesaid healtli authorities, resjiectiyely, during any said period, that fact is required to be renorted to tlie State department of health. All superintendents and other persons in charge of asylums, hospitals, or other institutions located in tOwnshijis of the second class are required, at the end of each week, and portion of a week occurring at the end of each month to report to the State i epartment of health, on blanks supplied for tiat purpose, a list of the inmates of such institutions, respectively y ho may have suffered from any of the diseases enumerated in the preceding paragraph, together with the above-mentioned data rela- ^e to each inmate, with the date of his or her admission to the insti- O' the State depart-$