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Para-typhoid fever

Plague

Poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis)

Puerperal septicaemia

Rabies

Scarlet fever

Syphilis

Smallpox

Trachoma

Tuberculosis

Typhoid fever

Typhus fever

Whooping cough

Regulation 2. Reporting cases of communicable disease by physicians. It shall be the duty of every physician to report to the health officer the full name, age and address of every person affected with a communicable disease, together with the name of the disease, within twenty-four hours from the time when the case is first seen by him. Such report shall be by telephone or telegram, when practicable, and shall also be made in writing.

Regulation 2-a. Reporting cases of persons bitten by a rabid animal. It shall be the duty of every physician or other person to report to the health officer the full name, age and address of every person who has been bitten (a) by a rabid animal, (b) by an animal suspected of being rabid, within twenty-four hours from the time when such fact comes to his knowledge.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to transmit promptly these reports to the state department of health.

Regulation 3. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable in schools. When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of every teacher to report forthwith to the principal or person in charge of the school all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any child in such school who appears to be affected with a disease presumably communicable. It shall be the duty of the principal or person in charge of every school to report forthwith to the health officer all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any child attending such school, who appears to be affected with any disease presumably

communicable, together with the name, age, and address of such child. Such child shall be at once sent home or isolated.

Regulation 4. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable in private households, hotels, boarding and lodging houses. When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of the head of a private household or the proprietor or keeper of any hotel, boarding house, or lodging house, to report forthwith to the health officer all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any person in any private household, hotel, boarding house or lodging house under his charge, who appears to be affected with any disease presumably communicable, together with the name of such person.

Regulation 5. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable by nurses and persons in charge of camps. It shall be the duty of every visiting nurse and public health nurse and of the person in charge of any labor or other camp, having knowledge of any person affected with any disease presumably communicable, who by reason of the danger to others seems to require the attention of the public health authorities, to report at once to the health officer, within whose jurisdiction such case occurs, all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of such affected person.

Regulation 6.

Reporting cases of communicable disease on dairy farms by physicians. When a case of Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, amoebic or bacillary dysentry, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, para-typhoid fever, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, or typhoid fever exists on any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, or other dairy products for sale, it shall be the duty of the physician in attendance to report immediately to the health officer the existence on such farm or dairy of such case.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to report immediately to the state commissioner of health, by telephone or telegram, the existence, on such farm or dairy of such case, together with all facts as to the isolation of such case, and giving the names of the localities to which such dairy products are delivered.

Regulation 7. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable on dairy farms by owner or person in charge. When

no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, cheese, or other food products likely to be consumed raw, to report forthwith to the health officer the name and address and all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any person who is affected with any disease presumably communicable and who is employed or resides on or in such farm or dairy, or comes in contact in any way therewith or with its products.

Regulation 8. Diphtheria; material for cultures to be submitted. In every case of illness which there is reason to suspect is diphtheria, it shall be the duty of the attending physician or of the health officer promptly to take material for cultures from the throat of the suspected person and submit the same for examination to a state, county, or municipal bacteriological laboratory, or to a laboratory approved by the state commissioner of health.

Regulation 9. Isolation of persons affected with communicable diseases. It shall be the duty of every physician, immediately upon discovering a case of communicable disease, to secure such isolation of the patient, or to take such other action, as is required by the special rules and regulations which from time to time may be issued by the health officer or by the state department of health.

Regulation 10. Adults not to be quarantined in certain cases. When a person affected with a communicable disease is properly isolated on the premises, except in cases of smallpox, adult members of the family or household, who do not come in contact with the patient or with his secretions or excretions, may, with the written consent of the health officer, continue their usual vocations, provided such vocations do not bring them in close contact with children, nor require that they shall handle food or food products intended for sale.

Regulation II. Removal of cases of communicable disease. After isolation by the health officer no person, without permission from him, shall carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from any room or building any person affected with diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox, or typhus fever.

Without permission from the health officer no person shall

carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from or to any hotel, boarding house, lodging house, or other dwelling, any person affected with chickenpox, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, mumps, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus fever, or whooping cough.

Without permission from the health officer no master of any vessel or other person shall remove or aid in removing, or permit the removal, from any such vessel to the shore, of any person affected with any communicable disease.

Regulation 12. Removal of articles contaminated with infective material. Without instruction from the health officer no person shall carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from any room or building any article which has been subject to contamination with infective material through contact with any person or with the secretions of any persons affected with Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever or typhus fever, until such article has been disinfected according to the special rules and regulations of the state department of health.

Regulation 13. Right of entrance and inspection. No person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance to any house or building by any inspector or officer of the state or local health authorities, in the discharge of his official duties, nor shall any person interfere with or obstruct the inspection or examination of any occupant of any such house or building by any inspector or officer of the state or local health authorities, in the discharge of his official duties.

Regulation 14. Instructions as to disinfection of excreta in Asiatic cholera, dysentery, para-typhoid fever, and typhoid fever. It shall be the duty of the physician in attendance on any case suspected by him to be Asiatic cholera, dysentery, para-typhoid fever, or typhoid fever, to give detailed instructions to the nurse or other person in attendance in regard to the disinfection and disposal of the excreta. Such instructions shall be given on the first visit, and shall conform to the special rules and regulations of the state department of health. It shall be the duty of the nurse or person in attendance to carry out the disinfection in detail until its discontinuance is permitted by the health officer.

Regulation 15. Instructions as to disinfection of discharges in diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, and whooping cough. It shall be the duty of the physician in attendance on any case suspected by him to be diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, or whooping cough, to give detailed instructions. to the nurse or other person in attendance in regard to the disinfection and disposal of the discharges from the nose, mouth and ears of the patient. Such instructions shall be given on the first visit and shall conform to the special rules and regulations of the state department of health. It shall be the duty of the nurse or person in attendance to carry out the disinfection in detail until its discontinuance is permitted by the health officer.

Regulation 16. Precautions to be observed by physicians and attendants. The physician or nurse or other necessary attendant upon a case of diphtheria, measles, or scarlet fever, after attendance upon the case, shall take precautions and practice measures of cleansing or disinfection of his person or garments to prevent the conveyance to others of infective material from the patient.

Regulation 17. Distribution of circulars. It shall be the duty of the health officer, as soon as a case of diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, typhus fever, or whooping cough is reported to him, or as soon thereafter as possible, to give every family or individual living in the house or building, in which such case is, circulars of information and copies of any rules and regulations, printed in a language understood by such individual, concerning such disease which may be issued by the state department of health or this board. The health officer shall also notify every family or individual living in the house of the existence of such disease.

Regulation 18. Posting placards. When a case of diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, poliomyeltis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, or typhus fever exists in any house, or apartment, or room, it shall be the duty of the

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