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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    tution, and the name of the city, borough, or township from which he or she was admitted. (Laws, 1909, act 658, sec. 23.) Midwives and nurses.—Whenever one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed or swollen or reddened at any time within two weeks after birth, it is the duty of the midwife or nurse, or other person having care of the infant, to report the facts to the health officer or a legally qualified practitioner, m writing, within six hours after the discovery of the condition. (Public Laws, 1895, p. 373j sec. 1, Pur- don’s Digest, 13th ed., p. 1886, sec. 78.) PORTO RICO. # HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLECTION OF MORBIDITY REPORTS. Island.—The governor appoints a member of the executive council to be director of health, cliarities, and corrections. (Laws of 1904, p. 89.) The director of health, charities, and corrections appoints an insular board of health and a director of sanitation. The director of sanitation is the chief sanitary officer of the island and the execu- tive officer of the board of health. The chairman of the insular board of health is the chief of the bureau of vital statistics. (Laws of 1911, act 68, secs. 1-3.) Sanitary districts.—For sanitary purposes the island is divided into four sanitary districts. Each (fistrict is in charge of a sanitary inspector appointed by tlie director of sanitation. (Ibid., sec. 17.) Sanitary zones.—Eacli sanitary district is divided into sanitary zones. Each zone is in charge of a health officer under the imme- diate orders of, and appointed by, the director of sanitation. Each sanitary zone has a board of health of three members. (Ibid., secs. 22-23.) Towns.—A sanitary police agent is appointed in each town having less than 10,000 inhabitants and at least two in towns having over 10,000 inhabitants. (Ibid.) MORBIDITY REPORTS. Notifiable diseases.—Exanihemhtic typhus, typhoid fever, small- pox, varioloid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, asiatic cholera, bubonic plague, beriberi, epidemic dysentery, cerebro-spinal menin- gitis, whooping cough, epidemic parotiditis, malaria, tuberculosis, glanders, leprosy, cutaneous syphilis, and hookworm disease, or uncinariasis. (Laws of 1911, act 68, sec. 25.) Physicians.—Physicians are required to report cases of the above- named diseases to the nearest health officer, and all cases of infectious or contagious diseases treated by them to the local health officer. (Ibid., secs. 25-26.) Local health officers.—Health officers are required to ’immediately report to the director of sanitation all cases of infectious or conta- gious diseases reported to them by physicians. (Ibid., sec. 26.) RHODE ISLAND. HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLECTION OF MORBIDITY REPORTS. State.—The law provides for a State boarc] of health of seven members. The board elects a physician to be secretary, who becomes