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 board of health to be reported. (Remington and Ballinger’s Code, 1910, sec. 5545.) Every physician is also to report immediately to the local health officer eveiy case of obscure eruptive disease of the nature of which he is in doubt. (Rules and regulations State board of health, 1910, p. 6.) Householders.—Whenever any householder knows that any person within his household is affected with an acute disease, accompanied with eru])tion of the skin, said householder shall immediately notify either the proper health officer or the family physician. (Rules and regulations State board of health, 1910, p. 6.) City health officers.—All city health officers (except those of cities of the first class) are to report immediately in duplicate to the county health officer and to the State commissioner of health every new outbreak (that is, first case or cases) of any contagious or infectious disease within their respective jurisdictions, and thereafter are to report weekly all contagious and infectious diseases to the county health officer only. If no contagious or infectious disease is present within their jurisdictions, report of the fact is to be made to the county health officer not less than once each month. (Rules and regulations State board of health, 1910, p. 4.) Health officers of cities of the first class (having a population of over 20,000) make the same reports, and are governed by the same rules as the county health officers, unless otherwise specified, and communicate directly with the State commissioner of health. (Rules and regulations. State board of health, 1910, p. 4.) County health officers.—County health officers are to make monthly reports of all contagious or infectious diseases to the State commis- sioner of healtli, by the 5th day of the month for the preceding cal- endar month. Local liealth officers send the original reports received or filled out 1)V tliem to the county health officer, who makes and keeps a record of each case, and who, in addition to his monthly report, forwards therewith to the State commissioner of health the original reports of individual cases of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, anterior poliomyelitis, hookworm disease, and pellagra. If no infectious or contagious diseases occur during the month, such fact must be reported. The county health officer makes his monthly report on blanks furnished by the State commissioner of health, and is to indicate thereon the geographic distribution of cases within his jurisdic- tion, the cities where no contagious or infectious diseases have occurred during the month, and cities which have neglected to make reports. Immediately upon learning of the first case of Asiatic cholera, chicken pox in adults, diphtheria, plague, scarlet fever or scarlet rash, smallpox, yellow fever, or typhus fever, within their respective jurisdictions, county health officers must notify the State commissioner of heaitfi, and after investigation, send a report stating fufly the source of infection and probable number of persons exposed from this or previously unknown cases, the danger of the disease spread- ing, and what measures have been taken for its control; and there- after they are to make reports of the course of the disease, as long as cases remain, at such intervals as directed by the commissioner of health. (Rules and regulations, State board of health, 1910, p. 4.)