nosis of such cases of influenza and shall be made on blanks furnished by the health department of the city of Pittsburg, which reports shall contain the name, residence, street number, or correct post-office address, occupation, age, sex, and color of person afflicted with the disease. Every person, whose duty it is to report cases of influenza, who shall fail to make such report within the time specified in this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter set out.

SEC. 3. Whenever any occupant of any residence, hotel, apartment house, or rooming house shall have influenza, it shall be the duty of the attending physician or head of the house or proprietor or manager of the hotel, apartment house, or rooming house to at once order that there be and see that there is posted in a conspicuous place on the residence or room, if a hotel, apartment house, or rooming house, a card not less than 12 inches square on which shall be printed in large type the word "Influenza," and such other matter as shall be required by the health department of the city of Pittsburg, which card shall be furnished by the health department. It shall be the duty of the city physician upon receiving information of the existence of influenza in any residence, hotel, apartment house, or rooming house to ascertain if a card has been posted as required by this ordinance, and if not, such city physician shall immediately cause a card to be posted as required by this ordinance. Such card shall be maintained and kept in place until in the opinion of the city physician the same may be safely removed. Any person who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section of this ordinance, or who shall remove or destroy any card posted as provided in this section without the consent of the city physician, shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter set out.

SEC. 4. Whenever any occupant of any residence or any person rooming at any hotel, apartment house, or rooming house shall have influenza, such residence or room in a hotel or rooming house or apartment shall be immediately quarantined, and such premises shall be deemed to be quarantined from the time such card provided for in the preceding section is posted and until such card is removed by order of the city physician. From and during the quarantine of said house, room, or apartment no one shall be permitted to enter or leave such quarantined premises except the attending physician, city physician, nurse, or nurses' attendants, and except as set out herein. Wage earners and those engaged in imperative business may be exempted from quarantine, providing the patient is isolated in a room to herself or himself, and that the wage earner or person engaged in imperative business remain out of the sick room and has written permission from the board of health to leave the premises. All patients afflicted with influenza are to be strictly isolated, coming in contact with none except the necessary physician, nurse, or attendant. Nurses or nurses' attendants, before entering the residence, room, or apartment where a person is afflicted with influenza, must be furnished with instructions to prevent contracting the disease, and must be given permission to enter said residence, room, or apartment by the board of health. Quarantine of patients will be continued for five days after temperature has reached normal. Quarantine of contacts or exposed persons must continue for five days after date of last exposure. Any wage earner or person engaged in an imperative business who shall enter or leave the premises quarantined as provided in this ordinance, except under the terms and conditions provided in this ordinance, shall, in addition to other penalties provided in this ordinance, be prohibited from leaving the premises so quarantined during the time that such quarantine is in effect. Any person entering or leaving said premises so quarantined, except as provided in this section, or who

shall violate any of the provisions of this section of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter set out.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any child residing in any place where there is a person afflicted with influenza, or which has been quarantined, to attend the public or any other school or any church, lodge [sic], theater, or any public gathering of any kind, or to leave said premises during the time that the influenza exists in the same or that the same is quarantined. It shall be the duty of the board of education of the city of Pittsburg and of the superintendent, principals, and teachers of all public and private schools in the city of Pittsburg to exclude from such schools all children residing in homes or other places where there is a case of such influenza or which are under quarantine. It shall be the duty of the owner, manager, or person in charge of every theater, publie or private hall, church, or other place where crowds are permitted to assemble, to exclude from such places all persons residing in homes or other places where there is a case of influenza or which are under quarantine. Any person knowingly or willfully violating any of the provisions of this section of this ordinance shall upon conviction be punished as hereinafter set out.

SEC. 6. The mayor of the city of Pittsburg, Kans., is hereby authorized and empowered by proclamation, whenever in the opinion of the city physician it shall become necessary to prevent the spread of influenza, to order closed any or all public, private, or other schools, churches, theaters, lodges, and other organizations, and to prevent or regulate gatherings of any public bodies, assemblies, gospel gatherings, congregations, lodges, theaters, or any other or ganizations, and to make such regulations in reference to the assembling or congregating of persons in places of business and other public and private places as in his judgment will prevent the spread of such disease. Any person who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with the requirements of such proclamation shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter set out.

SEC. 7. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500 or by confinement in the city jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

PORT CHESTER, N. Y.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases-Diphtheria Cultures-Isolation-Quarantine-Hospitalization-Removal of Patients and Contaminated Articles-Concurrent Disinfection-Precautions by Physicians and Attendants-Distribution of Circulars of Information-Placarding-Prevention of Spread in Institutions-Exposure of Infected and Well Persons-Attendance at Schools and Gatherings-Hospitalization, Quarantine, Isolation, and Vaccination in Smallpox Cases-Incubation Periods-Sale, Handling, and Destruction of Foodstuffs-Carriers-Reports of Food Poisoning-Procedure in Tuberculosis Cases-Cleaning, Renovation, and Disinfection-Destruction of Contaminated Articles-Occupation of Premises After Termination of Case-Placarding by Common Carriers-Burial. Venereal Diseases-Circular of Information and Instructions to Be Given Patient-Records Not to Be Divulged. (Reg. Jan. 21, 1918.)

CHAPTER I. DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS.

REGULATION 1. Definitions.-Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, the following words and terms used in these regulations are defined for the purposes hereof as follows:

(1) The term "communicable disease" means such communicable disease as may be designated in regulation 1 of chapter of the sanitary code of the State or in regulation 1 of chapter 3 of these regulations: Provided, however, That none of these regulations shall apply to or include chancroid, gonorrhea, or syphilis unless such disease is specifically mentioned in such regulation. (2) The term "municipality means and includes a city, town, village, or consolidated health district.

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(3) The term "board of health or local board of health cludes the board of health of the village of Port Chester.

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(4) The term "sanitary code" means the santiary code of the State of New York adopted by the public health council pursuant to law.

REG. 2. Construction of regulations.-Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to limit or abridge the power conferred upon this board to make other orders and regulations, either general or particular, so long as such orders and regulations do not conflict with the provisions of any law or the provisions of the sanitary code, but if such orders and regulations, hereafter enacted, conflict with or are inconsistent with the provisions of these regulations they shall be deemed, in so far as necessary, to supersede these regulations,

REG. 3. Penalty for violations.-Every violation of, or failure to comply with, any of the provisions of these regulations shall be punishable by a penalty not to exceed $100 for a single such violation or failure. This penalty shall be deemed to be in addition to any other penalty or punishment provided for by law or by the provisions of the sanitary code.

CHAP. 3. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

REGULATION 1. Communicable diseases designated.-For the purpose of this code, the term "communicable disease" shall be held to include the following diseases, which are hereby declared to be communicable through the conveyance of the infective organisms:

REG. 2. Reporting cases of communicable disease by physicians.-It shall be the duty of every physician to report to the health officer the full name, age, and address of every person affected with a communicable disease, together with the name of the disease, within 24 hours from the time when the case is first seen by him. Such report shall be by telephone or telegram, when practicable, and shall also be made in writing.

REG. 2-a. Reporting cases of persons bitten by a rabid animal.—It shall be the duty of every physician or other person to report to the health officer the full name, age, and address of every person who has been bitten (a) by a rabid animal, (b) by an animal suspected of being rabid, within 24 hours from the time when such fact comes to his knowledge.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to transmit promptly these reports to the State department of health.

REG. 3. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable in schools.—When no physician is in attendance it shall be the duty of every teacher to report forthwith to the principal or person in charge of the school all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any child in such school who appears to be affected with a disease presumably communicable. It shall be the duty of the principal or person in charge of every school to report forthwith to the health officer all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any child attending such school who appears to be affected with any disease presumably com municable, together with the name, age, and address of such child. Such child shall be at once sent home or isolated.

REG. 4. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable in private households, hotels, boarding and lodging houses.-When no physician is in attendance it shall be the duty of the head of a private household or the proprietor or keeper of any hotel, boarding house, or lodging house to report forthwith to the health officer all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any person in any private household, hotel, boarding house, or lodging house under his charge who appears to be affected with any disease presumably communicable, together with the name of such person.

REG. 5. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable by nurses and persons in charge of camps.-It shall be the duty of every visiting nurse and public-health nurse and of the person in charge of any labor or other camp having knowledge of any person affected with any disease presumably communicable, who by reason of the danger to others seems to require the attention of the public-health authorities, to report at once to the health officer within whose Jurisdiction such case occurs all facts relating to the illness and physical condi tion of such affected person.

REG. 6. Reporting cases of communicable disease on dairy farms by physicians. When a case of Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, amebic or bacillary dysentery, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, paratyphoid fever, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, or typhoid fever exists on any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, or other dairy products for sale, it shall be the duty of the physician in attendance to report immediately to the health officer the existence on such farm or dairy of such case.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to report immediately to the State commissioner of health, by telephone or telegram, the existence, on such farm or dairy of such case, together with all facts as to the isolation of such case, and giving the names of the localities to which such dairy products are delivered. REG. 7. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable on dairy farms by owner or person in charge.-When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, cheese, or other food products likely to be consumed raw, to report forthwith to the health officer the name and address and all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any person who is affected with any disease presumably communicable and who is employed or resides on or in

such farm or dairy, or comes in contact in any way therewith or with its products.

REG. 8. Diphtheria; material for cultures to be submitted.-In every case of illness which there is reason to suspect is diphtheria, it shall be the duty of the attending physician or of the health officer promptly to take material for cultures from the throat of the suspected person and submit the same for examination to a State, county, or municipal bacteriological laboratory, or to a laboratory approved by the State commissioner of health.

REG. 9. Isolation of persons affected with communicable diseases. It shall be the duty of every physician, immediately upon discovering a case of communicable disease, to secure such isolation of the patient, or to take such other action as is required by the special rules and regulations which from time to time may be issued by the health officer or by the State department of health. REG. 10. Adults not be quarantined in certain cases.-When a person affected with a communicable disease is properly isolated on the premises, except in cases of smallpox, adult members of the family or household, who do not come in contact with the patient or with his secretions or excretions, may, with the written consent of the health officer, continue their usual vocations, provided such vocations do not bring them in close contact with children, nor require that they shall handle food or food products intended for sale.

REG. 11. Removal of cases of communicable disease.—After isolation by the health officer no person, without permission from him, shall carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from any room or building any person affected with diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox, or typhus fever.

Without permission from the health officer no person shall carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from or to any hotel, boarding house, lodging house, or other dwelling, any person affected with chickenpox, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sore throat, measles, mumps, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus fever, or whooping cough.

Without permission from the health officer no master of any vessel or other person shall remove or aid in removing, or permit the removal, from any such vessel to the shore, of any person affected with any communicable disease.

REG. 12. Removal of articles contaminated with infective material.-Without instruction from the health officer no person shall carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from any room or building any article which has been subject to contamination with infective material through contact with any person or with the secretions of any persons affected with Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, or typhus fever, until such article has been disinfected according to the special rules and regulations of the State department of health.

REG. 13. Right of entrance and inspection.-No person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance to any house or building by any inspector or officer of the State or local health authorities, in the discharge of his official duties, nor shall any person interfere with or obstruct the inspection or examination of any occupant of any such house or building by any inspector or officer of the State or local health authorities, in the discharge of his official duties.

REG. 14. Instructions as to disinfection of excreta in Asiatic cholera, dysentery, paratyphoid fever, and typhoid fever.-It shall be the duty of the physician in attendance on any case suspected by him to be Asiatic cholera, dysentery, paratyphoid fever, or typhoid fever, to give detailed instructions to the nurse or other person in attendance in regard to the disinfection and disposal of