When a person applies to a physician or other person for treatment of a venereal disease, it shall be the duty of the physician or person consulted to inquire of, and ascertain from the person seeking treatment whether such person has theretofore consulted with, or been treated by, any other physicians or persons, and if so to ascertain the name and address of the physician or person last theretofore consulted. It shall be the duty of the applicant for treatment to furnish this information, and a refusal to do so, or falsification of the name and address of such physician or person consulted, shall be deemed a violation of the provisions of this chapter. It shall be the duty of the physician or person consulted, where the applicant has theretofore received treatment, to notify immediately by mail the physician or person last theretofore treating such applicant of the change of adviser, such notification to be made upon a form furnished for that purpose by the Department of Public Health. Should the physician or person previously consulted fail to receive such notice within ten days after the last appearance of such venereally diseased person it shall be the duty of such physician to report to the Department of Public Health the name and address of such venereally diseased person.
(Prior code § 94-3; Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. IV, § 3)