(c) That such persons do not come in contact in any way with such house or its inmates or contents;

(d) That said inmates are properly isolated and separated from all other parts of said farm or dairy, and efficiently cared for; and

(e) That a permit is issued by the health officer.

Regulation 34. Destruction of foods in certain cases. When a case of diphtheria, epidemic or septic sore throat, amoebic or bacillary dysentery, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, scarlet fever, smallpox, poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis), or typhoid fever exists on any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, cheese, or other foods likely to be consumed raw, the state commissioner of health or the health officer may destroy or order the destruction of any such foods which in his opinion may have been so contaminated as to be a source of danger.

Regulation 35. Handling of food forbidden in certain cases. No person affected with any communicable disease shall handle food or food products intended for sale, which are likely to be consumed raw or liable to convey infective material.

No person who resides, boards, or lodges in a household where he comes in contact with any person affected with bacillary dysentery, diphtheria, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, scarlet fever, poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis), or typhoid fever, shall handle food or food products intended for sale.

No waiter, waitress, cook, or other employee of a boarding house, hotel, restaurant, or other place where food is served, who is affected with any communicable disease, shall prepare, serve, or handle food for others in any manner whatsoever.

No waiter, waitress, cook, or other employee of a boarding house, hotel, restaurant, or other place where food is served, who lodges or visits in a household where he comes in contact with any person affected with bacillary dysentery, diphtheria, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, scarlet fever, poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis), or typhoid fever shall prepare, serve or handle food for others in any manner whatsoever.

Regulation 36. Carriers of disease germs. Any person who is a carrier of the disease germs of Asiatic cholera, bacillary

dysentery, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), or typhoid fever, shall be subject to the special rules and regulations of the state department of health.

Regulation 37. Reports of food poisoning. When any physician or the superintendent or person in charge of any hospital, other institution, or dispensary, or any visiting nurse or public health nurse, or the person in charge of any labor or other camp shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a number or group of cases of severe or fatal illness believed to have been due to the consumption of articles of food suspected to have been spoiled or poisonous, it shall be the duty of such physician, superintendent, nurse, or other person to report the same immediately, by telephone or telegram, when practicable, to the health officer.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to report immediately to the state commissioner of health, by telephone or telegram, when practicable, the occurrence of a number or group of such

cases.

Regulation 38. Duties of physicians and other persons concerning tuberculosis. It shall be the duty of every physician or other person required to perform any duty under sections three hundred and twenty to three hundred and thirty, both inclusive, of article sixteen of the public health law, providing for the reporting and control of cases of tuberculosis, to take all steps incumbent on him and necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the said law.

Regulation 38-a. Duties of health officers on receiving report of an apparent case of tuberculosis. Upon receiving word in writing of an apparent case of tuberculosis, as authorized by section three hundred and twenty of the public health law, the health officer shall thereupon take the following steps:

1. If the alleged case has been previously reported to him by a physician as having tuberculosis and the latter has elected to assume the sanitary supervision thereof as permitted in section three hundred and twenty-eight of the public health law, the health officer shall ascertain promptly whether such physician is maintaining proper sanitary supervision.

2. If the alleged case has not been previously reported to him as having tuberculosis, the health officer shall take proper measures to determine whether there is reason to believe such person is affected with pulmonary tuberculosis and if by suitable physical or sputum examination, or both, he ascertains that the person is affected with pulmonary tuberculosis he shall then proceed in accordance with the provisions of the public health law and the rules of the state department of health.

Regulation 39. Cleansing, renovation, and disinfection required. Adequate cleansing of rooms, furniture and belongings, when deemed necessary by the health officer, or required by the sanitary code, these regulations or otherwise by law, shall immediately follow the recovery, death, or removal of a person affected with a communicable disease. Such cleansing shall be performed by and at the expense of the occupant of said premises, upon the order and under the direction of the health officer, in accordance with the sanitary code and these regulations.

Adequate renovation of premises, when deemed necessary by the health officer, or required by the sanitary code or these regulations or otherwise by law, shall immediately follow the recovery, death, or removal of a person affected with a communicable disSuch renovation shall be performed by and at the expense of the owner of said premises or his agents, upon the order and under the direction of the health officer, in accordance with the sanitary code and these regulations.

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Adequate disinfection of premises, furniture and belongings, when deemed necessary by the health officer or required by the sanitary code, these regulations or otherwise by law, shall immediately follow the recovery, death, or removal of a person affected with a communicable disease. Such disinfection shall be performed by or under the direction of the health officer in accordance with the sanitary code or these regulations, and at the public expense unless otherwise provided pursuant to law.

Regulation 40. Methods and precautions in cleansing, renovation and disinfection. The following methods and precautions shall be observed in cleansing, renovation and disinfection:

(a) Cleansing shall be secured by the thorough removal of

dust and other contaminating material in such a way as to prevent the entry thereof, as far as may be possible, into other rooms or dwellings; washing with soap and water; scouring; airing; and exposure to sunlight; in accordance with the special rules and regulations of the state department of health.

(b) Renovation shall be secured by removing old paper from walls and ceilings, and repainting, recalcimining, or repapering of walls, ceilings, and woodwork as may be ordered by the health officer in accordance with the special rules and regulations of the state department of health.

(e) Disinfection of rooms shall be secured by the use of such disinfecting agents in such quantities and in such manner and of such sterilizing procedures as may be ordered by the health officer, in accordance with the special rules and regulations of the state department of health. When gaseous disinfectants are to be used, all cracks, crevices, and openings into the room shall first be pasted over with paper. Thereafter, all rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and such textile fabrics in the said room as cannot, in the opinion of the health officer, be washed or soaked in a disinfecting solution, may be removed for disinfection by steam when ordered by the health officer, in accordance with the special rules and regulations of the state department of health.

Regulation 41. Destruction of furniture, clothing and other articles. Furniture, bedding, clothing, carpets, rugs, and other articles, which may have been contaminated with infective material from any case of diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, and which are of such a nature or in such condition that they cannot, in the opinion of the health officer, be properly cleansed, disinfected, or sterilized, shall upon his order be destroyed in the manner designated by him.

Regulation 42. Cleansing and disinfection of the person. It shall be the duty of the patient, upon convalescence or recovery from any communicable disease, and of the nurse or persons in attendance on such case, throughout the course of the disease as well as at its close, suitably to cleanse and, when necessary, to disinfect their persons in accordance with the manner prescribed by the special rules and regulations of the state department of health.

Regulation 43. Letting of rooms forbidden while contaminated with infective material. No proprietor of a hotel, boarding house, or lodging house shall let for hire or cause or permit anyone to occupy a room or apartment previously occupied by a person affected with diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, or typhus fever, until such room or apartment has been cleansed, renovated, or disinfected, under the direction of the health officer.

When an order requiring the cleansing, renovation, or disinfection of articles or premises is not complied with the health officer shall post a placard on the premises, reading as follows:

"Notice: These apartments have (or this room has) been occupied by a person affected with

They (or it) must not again be occupied until orders for cleansing, renovation, or disinfection have been complied with. This notice must not be removed under penalty of the law.

Date

Health Officer."

Regulation 44. Placarding by common carriers. When the declaration in reference to common carriers receiving or admitting persons for carriage or transportation within this municipality has been made by the state commissioner of health in accordance with the provisions of regulation fifty of chapter two of the sanitary code, and a common carrier of passengers or officer or agent thereof is notified by the state commissioner of health or by the health officer of such declaration, it shall be the duty of such common carrier operating public conveyances in this municipality to forthwith conspicuously place or post in every station within such area as the state commissioner of health may designate, and in every conveyance, the placard hereinafter described and to keep the same posted until the epidemic is declared ended by the state commissioner of health."

"WARNING

THERE IS AN OUTBREAK OF...

(give name of the disease)

IN

PASSENGERS ARE CAUTIONED.

STATE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH."