[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Alderman of the City of Derby 9-23-1976 as Ch. 14 of the Charter and Revised Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Health Officer shall exercise the authority and discharge the duties conferred under the provisions of the General Statutes upon Boards of Health and town and city health officers.
When the Health Officer shall find any child afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease or infested with any vermin or in any unclean condition attending any public, private or parochial school, he shall cause notice to be given to the parent, guardian or custodian of such child, which notice shall state the nature of the disease or other condition in which such child may be and shall direct such parent, guardian or custodian to provide the proper medical or sanitary treatment to be given such child. Any parent, guardian or custodian of any such child neglecting to provide proper medical or sanitary treatment for any such child shall be punished as provided in § 1-14.
The proprietor or manager of every hotel, lodging or boarding house, and the person having the superintendence or charge of any public or private institution other than a public sanitarium or hospital, the head of every household and the master of any vessel, boat or barge, in which hotel, lodging or boarding house, institution, boat, vessel or barge or house any person shall be afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, shall immediately report to the Health Officer the name of the person so afflicted, the place where such person is and the nature of the affliction.
No person shall spit upon any floor or stairway in any public building or upon the floor, steps or platform of any public vehicle nor upon any sidewalk.
The Health Officer may cause any person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease to be quarantined or isolated in any hospital, building or locality as he may determine suitable until such person shall, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be free from liability of communicating any disease with which such person may be afflicted.
No person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease and no person having been exposed to any contagious disease shall appear in any public conveyance, street or place until such person shall have so far recovered as to render such person, in the opinion of the Health Officer, in such condition as will not communicate any such contagious or infectious disease, and no person having been in attendance upon or exposed to any person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease shall enter any public conveyance or place until the clothing of such person has been disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.
No superintendent, principal or teacher of any public, private or parochial school and no parent, guardian or custodian of any child of school age shall permit any child afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease or infested with lice or other vermin or in any unclean condition to attend any such school.
The Health Officer may employ such medical and other attendants and may provide necessary food and such other necessaries as may be required for any person who may be isolated in any pest house or hospital by any order under the direction of the Health Officer, all of which shall be at the expense of the city.
No person shall, without a written permit from the Health Officer, carry or remove or cause to be carried or removed from any building or place any person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease nor any clothing or any other article of any character or nature which has been exposed to infection of any contagious or infectious disease.
Any physician in attendance upon any person whom such physician shall suspect to be afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease shall immediately notify the Health Officer of the name, place of residence and the disease or condition which such physician suspects such person to be afflicted with, and whenever any person having been afflicted with such disease shall have, in the opinion of the attending physician, recovered, such physician shall immediately notify the Health Officer of such recovery and thereupon the Health Officer shall cause the premises, including all articles therein which may have been subjected to infection, to be properly disinfected and any order of quarantine may thereupon be removed.
In the event of any death from any contagious or infectious disease, including pulmonary tuberculosis, the Health Officer shall be notified at once by the attending physician.
No person shall sell or let or permit to be occupied any room, house or other building in which any person has been afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease until such room, house or other building has been thoroughly disinfected to the approval of the Health Officer.
Whenever any spring or well, the water of which is used for domestic purposes, has become polluted or rendered unsafe for drinking or other domestic use, the Health Officer shall cause notice to be given to the owner, lessee or occupant of the premises upon which such spring or well is located to discontinue the use of the water of such well until such time as the same may be rendered clean, pure and safe for use. If, in the opinion of the Health Officer, such spring or well may not be rendered clean, pure and safe for such domestic use, he may cause such well or spring to be so closed, filled up, covered or protected as will prevent any such use being made of the waters thereof, and the expense shall be paid by the owner of the premises upon which such well or spring is located.
No ice shall be sold, offered or exposed for sale that has been cut or made from impure or polluted water.
The owner or occupant of any premises upon which any privy vault shall be located shall cause such vault to be cleaned at such intervals as will prevent the same from becoming filled to within less than two feet of the surface of the ground around such vault, and no vault having become filled to such extent shall be allowed by the owner or occupant of the premises to remain in such condition nor in a condition so as to become a nuisance or offensive and no such vault shall be drained into any sewer, cesspool or into any excavation. Whenever any such vault or cesspool shall be in such condition that the contents thereof should be emptied or that the same should be cleaned and disinfected, the contents of any such vault or cesspool shall be deposited in an excavation sufficiently deep so that when such contents are deposited therein there shall be a depth of at least two feet of earth covering such contents, which earth shall be mixed with a deodorizing material sufficient to completely overcome all odors from such contents, all of which shall be subject to the approval of the Health Officer.
No abandoned well shall be used as a privy, vault or as a cesspool.
No person shall draw or allow to run into any highway or upon any walk or in any open place any contents of any cesspool or sink.
Each proprietor or person having the charge of any store, room, place or vehicle wherein any article of food intended for human use shall be stored, kept, sold or offered for sale shall keep such store, room, place or vehicle in a clean, wholesome and sanitary condition, subject to the approval of the Health Officer.
The owner or occupant of any alley, yard, stable, place or enclosure shall keep the same clean and shall disinfect the same whenever the condition of such alley, yard, stable, enclosure or other place requires disinfecting or when directed so to do by the Health Officer.
The Health Officer may require any complaint which may be made to him to be in writing and to bear the signature of the person making such complaint.