Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask.

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[1913]
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Credit: Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rule 50. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to m any way interfere or obstruct the entrance, inspection, examination, or fumigation of any house, buumng, apartment, furniture, or belongings, or the occupants thereof, by the health othcer or his deputy, when any case of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease has been reported as existing in such house, building, or apartment. [Regulations board of health, adopted Oct. 18, 1911.] ORANGE, N. J. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—NOTIFICATION OF CASES. 16. Section 73 of the ordinance to which this ordinance is a supplement is hereby amended to read as follows: , “73. Every physician shall report in writing to the board of.health the name m every patient he shall find to be affected with cholera, smallpox (including ’varioloid ', chicken pox, diphtheria, membranous croup, typhus fever, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever, measles, whooping cough, leprosy, plague, trichinosis,. infantile paralysis, epidemic cerebro spinal meningitis, or any other contagious or infectious disease that may be hereafter publicly declared by the State.board of health to be dangerous to the public health, together with the precise locality where such patient, may be found; and such report shall be made within 12 hours after the first visit ot such physician to such person. ... ,. . , “Any person or persons failing to comply with, violating, or offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of $50.” [Ordinance, board of health, adopted Oct. 2, 1911, as a supplement to the sanitary and plumbing code adopted Dec. 1, 1900.] ST. PAUL, MINN. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES—DISINFECTION OF WALLS AND CEILINGS. Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of health of the city of. St.. Paul, when in his opinion the calcimine, wall paper, or other wall or ceiling covering in any room has become infected with a communicable disease, to order the owner or occu- pant of, or the person, persons, firm, or corporation in charge of such room to remove said calcimine, wall papering, or other wall or ceiling covering, and every such owner or occupant or such person, firm, or corporation in charge of such room, when so noti- fied, shall immediately remove said calcimine, wall paper, or other wall or ceiling covering. Sec. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- ished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $25. Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. [Ordinance, adopted July 14, 1911.] SEATTLE, WASH. INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AMONG ANIMALS—NOTIFICATION TO COMMIS- SIONER OF HEALTH AND CONTROL OF ANIMALS. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person having possession or control of any animal sick or afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease or any animal that may be suspected of having any infectious or contagious disease, to suffer or permit such diseased or suspected animal to run at large, or come in contact with animals not afflicted with the same disease or to drink at any public or common watering trough or stream accessible to other animals, or to purposely drive, work, or use such diseased animal in or upon any public street, avenue, alley, or other public place, or upon any private premises, not his own, within the limits of the city of Seattle, or to interfere with or obstruct any officer in the discharge of any duty with reference to such animal, provided by this ordinance: Providing, however, That the exact location of the place where quarantine shall be maintained, upon private property, shall be selected by the owner, person in charge or control, agreeable to the commissioner of health. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any veterinarian, being called upon to attend any animal and finding such animal sick of any infectious or contagious disease or finding such animal showing such symptoms as indicating that it may have any infectious or contagious disease, or in case there be no attending veterinarian, for any person in