(A) Every physician practicing in the town shall report to the County Health Official within six hours after the diagnosis or appearance of any of the following diseases: diphtheria (including membranous croup), scarlet fever, smallpox, yellow fever, typhoid fever, acute anterior, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, whooping cough, mumps, or any other pestilential, infectious, or contagious disease.
(B) Syphilis, gonococcus infection, and cancroid are hereby and hereinafter recognized and declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health. The term VENEREAL DISEASE, as used in this subchapter, shall include all such diseases.
(C) The statutes of the state governing prevention and control of the diseases stated hereinbefore shall apply to all cases of this nature after said report is made.
(Prior Code, § 10-2)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 63 O.S. § 1-503