Any physician or any manager, superintendent, or other person in charge or control of any public or private institution, hotel, boardinghouse, lodging house, hospital, or dispensary, or any other person who shall discover, prescribe for, treat, care for, attend, or learn of any person within the city or upon a vessel in the harbor having, or suspected of having, a contagious, epidemic, or communicable disease, excepting syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, within 24 hours after first discovering or learning of the existence or suspected existence of the disease, shall report the facts in writing to the Department of Public Health, giving the name, if known, and the place of residence or the location of said person having, or suspected of having, the disease, and the character and state of the disease.
Any such person shall report syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid to the Department of Public Health on a card supplied by the Department of Public Health, which card shall state the age, sex, color, marital condition, and occupation of the diseased person, the nature and previous duration of the disease, the probable origin, and whether the diseased person has been given a circular of information and advice, furnished by the board of health, concerning venereal diseases. Said card shall be mailed to the Department of Public Health within three days after the discovery of the disease. Except as hereinafter provided, the name and address of a person having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid shall not be reported to the Department of Public Health. All information and reports concerning persons having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid shall be confidential and shall be inaccessible to the public except in so far as publicity may attend the performance of the duty imposed upon the Department of Public Health to protect other persons from infection.
(Prior code § 94-2; Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. IV, § 2)