Municipal sanitation in the United States / by Charles V. Chapin.

  • Charles V. Chapin
Date:
1901
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Credit: Municipal sanitation in the United States / by Charles V. Chapin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stage, which is characterized by the whoop'1 before the disease can be distin- guished. When a child or young person lias symptoms of whooping-cough, or a cold or cough unusually severe with a tendency to become paroxysmal.it should immediately be kept separated from all other persons, except necessary attendants until it is ascertained whether or not it has whooping-cough, or some other coin municable disease. 3. Period of Incubation.— The interval between the date of infection and that of the outbreak of symptoms of whooping-cough usually varies between four and twenty-one days. 4. Every person known to be sick with whooping-cough should be promptly and thoroughly isolated from the public; uo more persons than are actually necessary should have charge of or visit the patient, and they should be restricted in their intercourse with other persons. •>. Plain and distinct notices should be placed upon the premises or housi in which tht re is a person sick with whooping-cough. 6. Householders and Physicians must immediately give notice of the first case and of every cass of whooping-cough to the local health officer. This is required by law. DUTIES OF THE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. 7. Upon the receipt of notice of the occurrence of whooping-cough, the health officers and the Hoard of Health have duties to perform in taking measures to restrict the spread of the disease, which it is a violation of public trust for such officers to neglect or postpone. That no time may lie lost, it is the duty of every hoard of health to make provisions for prompt action by its health officer, author- izing and directing him to he prepared at all times, as executive officer of the hoard, to take action without waiting for a meeting of the hoard, whenever a case of diph- theria, scarlel fever, measles, whooping-cough, small-pox, <//• other disease dangt rous to the public health occurs within its jurisdiction. The duties of the local hoard of health relative to the restriction and prevention of diseases are treated of in a cir- cular No. [120] issued by the Male Hoard of Health. Li TIE8 OF THE Hi: A I.ill l IF] tCI B. Some of the duties of the health officer generally required by law, may be briefly suggested as follows: Whenever he has reason to believe that there is in his juris- diction a case of whooping-cough, he should,— a. I'd»nipt Is investigate the subject. ii. Order the prompt and thorough isolation of those sick or infected with whooping-cough. c. See that no person suffers foi lack of nurses or supplies. ./. Give public notice of infected places bj placard on the premises, and other- wise it necessary. Notify teachers or superintendents ol schools concerning families in which there are cases of whOoping-COUgh. /'. Supervise funerals of persons dead from whooping cough. !/. Disinfect i s. clothing and premises, and all articles likelj to be infected, before allowing them to he used by other persons than those m isolation. A. Keep the |,resident ,,i' this hoard ..i' health and the secretary oi the State Board of Health constantlj informed respecting everj outbreak i \\ I ping cough. In the absence of regulations made bj the local hoard of health, conflicting there- with, orders by the health officer in the lawful performance of these duties have the force of regulations by the hoard of health. 1'nless otherwise ordered bj the local hoard of health, these duties are required of the health officer i>y Act 187, laws of ivv-. Section _ of this act, as amended by \. i No. 34, approved March 28, L889, provides thai