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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    MORBIDITY REPORTS. Dangerous and contagious diseases.—The State board of health has declared the following-named diseases to be ‘‘dangerous and con- tagious”: Asiatic cholera (cholerine), yellow fever, smallpox, typhus fever, leprosy, bubonic plague, diphtheria, scarlet fever (scarlatina), typhoid fever, measles (including rotheln), whooping cough, cerebro- spinal meningitis. (Rules Wisconsin State board of health, adopted Aug. 7, 1907), and anterior poliomyelitis. (Rules Wisconsin State Board of Health, adopted Jan. 28, 1910.) Physicians, etc.—Whenever a physician knows or has good reason to believe that any person whom he is attending is sick with a “dan- gerous, contagious, or infectious ” disease, he is required by law to immediately report the case in writing to the local board of health, giving the nature of the disease and the name, age, sex, and place of residence of the person sick. In the absence of an attending physician the report is to be made by the head of the family or the person in charge of the house or building. (Acts of 1909, ch. 85, sec. 1.) Physicians are required to report to the local board of health the name, age, and address of ])ersons having any of the above-mentioned diseases or tuberculosis, chicken pox, or erysipelas. It is the duty of every physician or person, or owner, agent, manager, principal, or superintendent of eveiy public or private institution or dispensary, hotel, boarding or lodging house, to pport to the local (town, city, or village) department of health in writing or to have such a report made by some competent person, giving the name, age, sex, occupation, and latest address of every person afflicted with tuberculosis, who is in his care, or who has come under his observation, wdthin one week. (Acts of 1905, ch. 192.) Nurses, etc.—When one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen, and red, and show an unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, the nurse, parents, or other attendant having charge of the infant are recjuired to report the case in writing within six hours to the local board of health. (Acts of 1909, ch. 59, sec. 1.) Local health authorities.—li is the duty of every local health officer, upon the appearance of any dangerous or contagious disease within ms jurisdiction, to immediately investigate all the circumstances attendant upon the appearance of the disease and make a full report to the State board of health. (Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, sec. 1412.) WYOMING. HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLECTION OF MORBIDITY REPORTS. State.—The law provides for a State board of health of three mem- bers appointed by the governor, one member of the board to be a physician, and to constitute the secretary and executive officer of the board. (Acts of 1901, ch. 55, secs. 1, 2.) Counties.—The State board of health appoints a practicing physi- cian in each county to he county health officer. (Ibid., sec. 3.) ^ ^ The county health officers are under the direction and supervision of the State board of health, and the State board has authority to make such rules and regulations for the government and direction of county health officers as in its judgment may be best suited to main- tain the public health. (Ihid., sec. 18.)