In case any person shall die from typhus, yellow,
ship or scarlet fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, cholera, smallpox
(including varioloid), diphtheria or from any other communicable disease
that may be hereafter specified and declared by the Division to be
dangerous to public health, the funeral of such person shall not be
public or at any church or place of public worship, but shall be strictly
private. No person shall invite thereto or to any services connected
therewith, or permit to be present at such funeral or at such services,
any person or persons whose attendance is unnecessary.
Every physician shall report in writing to the
Division the name and residence of every person under his care affected
with cholera, smallpox (including varioloid), chicken pox, diphtheria,
membranous croup, cerebrospinal meningitis, yellow, ship, typhus,
typhoid or scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary and laryngeal tuberculosis,
mumps, whooping cough, epidemic dysentery or anterior poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis) or any other communicable disease that may be
hereafter declared by the Division to be dangerous to the public health;
and such report shall be made within 24 hours after the physician
shall have reasonable time and opportunity of ascertaining the nature
of such disease.
A.
Whenever there shall occur any case of cholera, smallpox
(including varioloid), diphtheria, membranous croup, cerebrospinal
meningitis, yellow, typhus or scarlet fever, anterior poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis), measles or German measles, the Division of
Health or its authorized agent shall place upon the house or houses
in which said case or cases are confined, placards bearing the word
"Quarantine" and naming the disease whenever deemed advisable by the
Division of Health.
B.
Whenever a placard shall be placed upon a house aforesaid,
no person or persons except the medical attendant and nurse shall
enter therein and unnecessarily depart therefrom without the permission
of the Division of Health or its authorized agent. Whenever there
shall occur any case of whooping cough, the person having the same
shall wear an armband bearing the words "Whooping Cough" at all times,
said band to be furnished by the Division of Health.
When it shall be deemed necessary by the Division
to determine the true character of any disease which it may have reason
to believe communicable, the person or persons afflicted with such
disease may, by order of the Division, be subjected to a medical examination,
and when such examination shall have been ordered by the Division,
no person attending on or having the care of the person or persons
to be subject to such examination under said orders shall unnecessarily
delay, hinder or prevent the same.
No parent, master, guardian or custodian of
any child or other person shall needlessly expose or cause or permit
to be needlessly exposed such child or other person to the contagion
or infection of any communicable diseases. No person having a child,
servant or other person in his or her family afflicted with any communicable
disease, and no nurse or other domestic person and no member of such
family, or boarder or visitor of such family, shall attend any public
meeting or visit any place of public resort or in any other manner
subject any person or persons to danger of contracting such disease.
In case any person within the jurisdiction of
the Division shall be afflicted by any communicable disease, such
person shall, if deemed necessary by the Health Officer be isolated
for such period as the Health Officer may order. Any building infected
by the presence of such person shall be thoroughly disinfected in
the manner prescribed by the Health Officer; and all clothing, beds,
bedclothes, bedroom furniture, chairs, carriages, vehicles and other
articles which may have been contaminated or fouled by contact with
such person or because of use by such person shall be thoroughly disinfected
and cleaned, or, if necessary in the judgment of the Health Officer,
destroyed.
It shall be the duty of any person knowing or
having reasonable cause to believe that any other person within the
limits of the jurisdiction of the Division is affected with any communicable
disease and is neglected or improperly cared for so that it is probable
that said disease will be communicated to others, at once to report
the name and place of residence or lodging place of the person so
affected and the facts and circumstances in the case to the Health
Officer.
No person shall bring or cause to be brought
within the jurisdiction of the Division any person affected with any
communicable disease, except a permit from the Division be first obtained.
And no person shall bring or cause to be brought within the limits
aforesaid any article or thing whereby there is reason to believe
that any communicable disease may or can be communicated or propagated.
No person shall, without the permission of the
Division, carry or remove or assist in removing or carrying, or cause
or permit to be carried or removed, any person affected with any communicable
disease from any vessel, railroad car, carriage or other conveyance
or from any dwelling house or other building within the limits of
the jurisdiction of the Division, or to any vessel, railroad car,
carriage or other conveyance or to any other dwelling house or other
building. In case such permission is granted, the person or persons
who shall carry or remove the person affected as aforesaid shall do
so in the manner directed by the Division at the time of giving such
permission and not otherwise.
