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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    tary districts and to appoint a health officer for each district. The district health officers, together with t]ie board of county commis- sioners, constitute the county board of health. (Ibid., sec. 1106.) Cities.—-It is the duty of the board of trustees or the city council of every incorporated town and city to,establish by ordinance a board of health of three or more members, one of whom shall, when practicable, be a physician and the executive officer of the board and be known as the health officer. (Ibid., sec. 1105.) MORBIDITY REPORTS. Physicians, etc.—It is the duty of every physician or other person caring for the sick to report immediately to the local board of health cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, smallpox, typhoid fever, measles, tuberculosis, cholera, rubella, cliickenpox, typhus fever, plague, cerebrospmal meningitis, poliomyelitis, leprosy, or pneumonia coming under liis charge. (Ibid., sec. 1113x11, as amended by laws of 1911, ch. 75, sec. 1.) Every physician and every superintendent of a hospital or public institution is required to immediately report to the State board of health every case of tuberculosis which he is called upon to treat or which is in such hospital or public institution. (Ibid., sec. 1113x27o) All physicians or other persons having knowledge of the existence of any contagious or infectious disease, or having reason to believe that any such disease exists, are required to report the fact imme- diately to the local board of health. (Ibid., sec. 1111.) It is the duty of every physician and every superintendent or man- ager of a hospital or public institution to immediately report to the local board of health every case of venereal disease which he is called upon to treat, or which may be in such hospital or institution, and to make such reports as may bo called for by the regulations of the State board of health. The name of the person affected is not to be included in the report. (Laws of 1911, ch. 90, sec. 1.) It is the duty of j)hysicians and midwives to report to the local board of health within six hours every case where a newly born child has inflammation of the eyes attended by a discharge. (Laws 1911, ch. 61, sec. 1.) Local health authorities.—Local boards of health or health officers report to the secretary of the State board of health monthly on or before the 5th day of each month all cases of scarlet fever, small- pox, diphtheria, membranous croup, typhoid fever, whooping cough, measles, cliickenpox, pneumonia, and tuberculosis which have occurred in their respective jurisdictions during the preceding month. (Compiled Laws, 1907, sec. 1108.) Upon receipt of a notification of inflammation of the eyes of a newly born child, the local health officer is to report immediately by telephone or telegraph to the State board of health. (Regulations, State board of health, 1911.)