Every physician practicing in the City who shall be in attendance upon
a patient affected with any communicable disease specified by the United States
or the state public health services as reportable shall report the name and
location of the patient to the Director of Public Health within 24 hours after
he is satisfied of the existence of such disease. For his failure to comply
with either of these requirements, the physician so offending shall be fined
$10 for every 24 hours he so fails to report concerning such patient.
Whenever a report is made to the office of the Director of Public Health
of the existence of a communicable disease upon any premises, the Director
of Public Health may cause a card to be placed within or without such premises,
as he may see fit, with such words of precaution as he may deem necessary.
No person shall, within the corporate limits of the city, use any house
or tent as a hospital or sanatorium for tuberculosis patients or conduct any
such hospital or sanatorium within the corporate limits of the city.
It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly let for hire or to
cause or permit anyone to occupy any living quarters previously occupied by
a consumptive before such quarters have been disinfected by and renovated
according to the directions of the Director of Public Health.
It shall be unlawful to permit in railroad stations, bus stations, airports,
public hotels, boardinghouses, restaurants, clubs, schools, factories, stores
or publicly frequented places the use of the common drinking cup.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, furnish or keep in place
in any hotel, office building, railway station, factory, workshop, public
or private school, public lavatory or washroom any towel for the common public
use or for the use by employees in such establishments, and no person in charge
or control of any such place shall permit in such place the use of the common
towel or towels intended or reasonably available for common use by more than
one person without being laundered after such use. Any person violating any
of the provisions of this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50, provided that no towel shall
be deemed to be a common towel or towel intended or available for common use
if it is a towel arrangement which has been approved by the State Department
of Health.