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eral fund of the State to be used in meeting other appropriations made out of said general fund in the event said sale is consummated.

Sewer Connections. (Act 188, July 8, 1920.)

SECTION 1. That the title of act No. 1493 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana of 1918, approved July 10, 1918, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

"An act granting right to municipalities having a public system of sewerage to provide for enforcing connection therewith by owners of improved premises within 300 feet of line of sewerage; to provide for connection of said connections, including line of service pipe and stool, reservoir, etc., and installation thereon, together with connections with water mains for flushing purposes, by having same done under contract with lowest bidder or by said municipalities with its own force and its own equipment and under its own supervision, and permitting owners to pay for the same in five annual installments, or have the option of paying cash. Giving municipal authorities the power to levy costs thereof under special assessments carrying with it a lien and privilege upon property improved; providing for the issuance by the municipality of its own certificates of indebtedness based upon the special assessments against various property holders, providing for the collection of the assessments with the penalties and for the method of judicial enforcement of the payment of the assessment."

SEC. 2. That section 2 of said act No. 149 of 1918 be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: That whenever the mayor and board of aldermen or other governing body of any municipality having a public sewerage system deem it necessary for the public health that owners of one or more premises shall connect their premises with public sewer 10 days' notice in writing shall be given to the said owners by registered letter, directed to their last-known address, delay beginning to run from [the time?] said notice notifying them to connect up with the public sewer is deposited in the post office, and if the work of making connection with sewer is not begun at the end of the 10 days the mayor shall notify the city engineer to prepare plans and specifications for making the connection with the public sewer, including water-service pipe for flushing purposes; the said plans and specifications shall be uniform, allowing the owner upon written notice to the mayor before adoption of the adoption of the ordinance ordering advertisement hereinafter provided for to have installed a more expensive equipment, which the owner must fully and accurately describe, the extra cost of which shall be charged to the particular owner ordering it. The said plans and specifications shall be filed in the city clerk or engineer's office, and the mayor and board of aldermen shall adopt an ordinance ordering or describing in general terms the contemplated sewerage connections, giving location of premises and name of owners. The municipal authorities may proceed to execute the work with its own force and its own equipment and under its own supervision or may let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security, but shall have the right to reject any and all bids. The clerk shall advertise for bids in some newspaper published in said municipality by insertion therein at least twice, the first insertion to be not less than 10 days prior to date fixed for reception of bids and shall contain a general description of the contemplated sewerage connection and shall refer to the plans and specifications on file and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception of bids.

3 Supplement 38 to Public Health Reports, p. 135.

Reads the same as in the session laws.

the wall, providing the pipe is extraheavy cast-i SEC. 7. Every building used for habitation shall closets as the department of health may require, for each tenement. Every building where persons least one water-closet for every 25 persons employ ing where both sexes are employed, separate accor for both men and women. Every inclosure containi shall be provided with adequate ventilation to the or suitable light shaft. No water-closet shall be s that has not a window having an area of at least 3 to the external air, or a ventilating shaft with Water-closets shall be supplied with water from ta above the seat, which in turn are supplied from supply. In all cases the flush pipe shall not be less No pan closets will be allowed, nor shall any waterthe water pipe unless suitable flush valve is used. of tenement or lodging houses will only be allowed department of health.

SEC. 8. Every garage or building which is conne gasoline, naphtha, or other inflammable compounds with a special trap or separator, so designed as to into the sewer, and shall be ventilated with a se inches in diameter and shall run at least 3 feet ab lated down to first ceiling in room. The waste p vehicles shall be provided with catch basin so desi into the drain.

SEC. 9. All joints in cast-iron drain, soil, waste, with hot lead resting upon a gasket of oakum and ca of lead required is about 12 ounces to each inch of

Industrial diseases, and those marked with a star in the above list, must be reported direct to the State department of health, using the special report blanks which are supplied by the department for that purpose.

RULE 3. Physicians to report cases.-When any physician knows or has reason to believe that any person whom he has called to visit, or who visits or consults him, is infected with any of the diseases in rule 2, such physician shall forthwith give notice thereof to the local health officer of the town in which such person lives (except in those cases of disease noted in rule 2 to be reported direct to the State department of health under special regulations). Such report shall be in writing and by telephone when practicable, and shall include the full name, age, and address of the person afflicted, together with the name of the disease.

RULE 4. Householders to report cases.-Whenever any householder knows or has reason to believe that any person within his family or household has any of the diseases listed in rule 2, he shall within 24 hours give notice thereof to the local health officer of the town in which he resides (except those cases to be reported direct to State department) and such report shall be by telephone, when practicable, and shall also be made in writing.

RULE 5. Reports to State department of health.-Every local health officer shall report promptly to the State department of health upon blanks furnished by the department of health for that purpose, and at such times and in such manner as is provided by those blanks, all cases and outbreaks of the diseases which are enumerated in rule 2, as reportable to them.

RULE 6. Quarantine.-The following degrees of quarantine, or control, shall be carried out in all cases of communicable diseases which the State department of health has declared or may declare notifiable or quarantinable: Full quarantine, modified quarantine, and observation.

Full quarantine.-Full quarantine is defined to mean and include:

(a) Strict isolation of the person sick and of those attendant upon him in a room or rooms screened against flies and mosquitoes in the months when those insects are active.

(b) Absolute prohibition of entrance to, or exit from, the building, or in case of buildings of proper construction, from the isolated apartment, in which the sick person is confined except the attending physician, health authority, or any person or persons specially authorized by the health officer to enter or to leave the building.

(c) Persons affected with any of the following diseases shall be placed under full quarantine: Cholera (Asiatic), plague, smallpox, and typhus fever. Modified quarantine.-Modified quarantine is defined to mean and include: (a) Complete separation of the person sick and of those attendant upon him from all other persons in the building or on the premises, in a room screened when practicable against flies and mosquitoes during those months in which those insects are active.

(b) Prohibition of entrance into, or exit from, the building in which the sick person is confined except as the local health officer may permit under rule 9.

(c) Persons affected with any of the following diseases shall be placed under modified quarantine: Anthrax, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria (membranous croup), dysentery, epidemic or septic sore throat, glanders, leprosy, measles, paratyphoid fever, pneumonia, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, and influenza (grippe).

Observation.-Observation is defined to mean and include:

(a) The inspection from time to time by the local health officer or his agents of a person suffering from or affected with a communicable disease or a disease which may be notifiable under the rules and regulations of the State depart

ment of health and not subject to the regulations for full quarantine or modified quarantine.

(b) The supplying of information and advice, printed or otherwise, to such persons relative to the measures for the care of the sick and the prevention of the spread of infection. The local health officer shall exercise such a degree of supervision and control over such persons as may be deemed necessary to prevent their becoming dangerous to the public.

(c) Persons affected with any of the following diseases shall be placed under observation: Actinomycosis, chicken pox, conjunctivitis (acute infectious), dengue, favus, hookworm disease, malaria, German measles, mumps, ophthalmia neonatorum, paragonimiasis, pellagra, rabies, spotted fever, tetanus, trachoma, trichinosis, tuberculosis (all forms), whooping cough, and yellow fever. When a person or a house, building, or place has beeen put under full or modified quarantine by the local health officer, no person quarantined or persons within the quarantined area shall leave it, and no person outside shall enter it (except under provisions of rule 9), nor shall they do anything which is in violation of the definition of that degree of quarantine which may be in force in the given place or area, nor shall they do anything in disobedience of the orders of the local health officer or regulations of the State department of health.

RULE 7. Periods of quarantine and exclusion from school.-Persons who have been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease, or who are suspected of having an infectious or contagious disease or of being infectious or the carriers of infection, may be placed under quarantine or observation as is provided in rule 6 until the period of incubation has elapsed or until the nature of the disease has been determined or the period of infectiousness and danger to the public has ended; and said persons shall obey all orders and shall be guided by the instructions which may be given by the local health officer.

RULE 8. Children.-When the well children who remain in the same home with those who are sick under quarantine or under observation are permitted by the local health officer to play in their own yard, they shall be kept off the streets and from all places outside of their premises, and it shall be the duty of their parents, guardians, or other persons under whose charge they are to keep said children within their own yards or on their own premises. Parents, teachers, or other guardians of children in other homes or other places shall not allow the children under their charge to enter houses, premises, or yards which are held under quarantine or observation, nor to play with children or families which are placed under quarantine or observation.

RULE 9. Adults need not always be quarantined.—When a person affected with a communicable disease is properly isolated on the premises (except in cases of smallpox, plague, typhus fever, or Asiatic cholera), the adult members of the family or household, particularly the wage earners, who do not come in contact with the patient or with his secretions or excretions, unless forbidden by the local health officer, may continue their usual vocations, provided their vocations do not bring them in close contact or association with children: And provided further that they do not go into other people's homes or attend any public entertainments, clubs, lodges, church services, etc., without permission from the local health officer.

RULE 10. Quarantine in certain emergencies.-When any case of diphtheria, cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), measles, or scarlet fever is not or can not be properly isolated on the premises and can not be removed to a suitable hospital, it shall be the duty of the local health officer to forbid any member of the household from leaving the premises, except under such conditions as he may specify.

RULE 11. Disregard of quarantine rules.-In case any of the general provisions for modified quarantine or observation, or any of the orders or regulations of the local or State health officials relating thereto are violated or disobeyed, the local health officer may enforce full quarantine or modified quarantine when in the opinion of the said officer the public safety requires such action.

RULE 12. Milkmen, grocery men, etc.-When milkmen deliver milk to persons, houses, or premises which are under quarantine, they shall empty the milk into covered containers placed outside the door of said house or premises, or shall deliver the milk in containers which shall not be used again, but shall be burned as soon as they are emptied. They shall not enter such premises nor remove milk bottles, nor take anything else therefrom until the house or premises have been released from quarantine and disinfected and the bottles have been sterilized by boiling. If bottles have been delivered, they shall not be taken from the house until the quarantine has been raised and the bottles have been sterilized in accordance with the instructions of the local health officer.

Grocery men and other persons delivering merchandise are forbidden to enter such premises or remove package or other articles therefrom until such articles have first been boiled or otherwise sterilized under the instructions of the local health officer.

RULE 13. Infectious books, and reports to librarians and superintendents of schools. The local health officer of each town and city in which there is a public or circulating library shall promptly report to the librarian or owner of said library the names and places of residence of all families in which cases of communicable diseases have appeared, and it shall furthermore be the duty of the local health officer of every town and city to report the same facts to the superintendent of schools or to the teacher of the school in whose district the families belong. No person shall carry any book or magazine from any public or circulating library to a house or home where there is an infectious or contagious disease, and no person shall return to such library without the permission of the local health officer any book or magazine which has been in a home where an infectious or contagious disease has been present therein; and until permission is given by the local health officer, librarians or owners shall allow nothing to be taken to or returned from the places in which such disease exists.

RULE 14. The duty of teachers.-It shall be the duty of teachers and of principals of schools to note the condition or the symptoms of their pupils which are suggestive of the onset of a contagious or an infectious disease, and this particularly when a disease of this kind is prevalent or present in the community. Among the symptoms which should excite suspicion are those of a common cold or a cough when measles or whooping cough are around; tonsilitis or sore throat which may mean diphtheria or scarlet fever; or a rash at any time. The teacher or principal shall immediately report to the local health officer the condition of any pupil which is suggestive of a contagious or infectious disease and shall exclude such pupil from the schoolroom until he has been seen by the health officer or a physician. The teacher shall furthermore exclude from the schoolroom children from houses in which there is, or recently has been, a contagious or infectious disease until a certificate of readmission is received from the local health officer.

RULE 15. The physician to arrange for precautionary measures.-It shall be the duty of any physician, immediately upon discovering a case of communicable disease, to secure such isolation of the patient or to take such other action as may be required by the rules and regulations or printed instructions which may from time to time be issued by the State department of health; and all persons in a family, house, or place where a communicable disease is found or who

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