For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) ABSOLUTE ISOLATION includes: First, the confinement of the patient and attendants to one room or suite of rooms, to which none but authorized officers or attendants shall have admission; second, screening of room and entire house if necessary with not less than 16-mesh wire gauze; third, the prohibition of passing out of the sick room of any object or material until the same has been thoroughly disinfected; fourth, if, in the opinion of the director of public health the patient cannot be treated with reasonable safety to the public at home, the removal of the patient and contacts to a contagious disease hospital.
(2) ABSOLUTE QUARANTINE includes: First, absolute prohibitions of entrance to or exit from the building or conveyance except by officers or attendants authorized by the director of public health, and the placing of guards, if necessary, to enforce this prohibition; second, the posting of a warning placard bearing the name of the disease quarantined in letters not less than one inch high in a conspicuous place or places on the outside of the building or conveyance; third, the prohibition of the passing out of any object or material from the quarantined house or conveyance; fourth, provision for conveying the necessities of life, under proper restrictions, to those in quarantine.
(3) A CARRIER means a person who, without symptoms of a communicable disease, harbors and disseminates, or is likely to disseminate, the infectious agent of that disease.
(4) CLEANSING means the removal by scrubbing and washing of organic matter on which and in which micro-organisms may find favorable conditions for prolonging their life and virulence and the removal by the same means of micro-organisms adherent to the surface.
(5) COMMUNICABLE DISEASES means such diseases as are communicable through the conveyance of the infectious agent of the disease.
(6) COMPLETE DISINFECTION means disinfection during illness, under the direction of the director of public health, of a patient’s body, of all excretions or discharges of a patient, and of all articles of clothing and utensils used by a patient and, after recovery, death, or removal, the disinfection of walls, woodwork, furniture, bedding, and other items.
(7) CONTACT means a person who has been sufficiently near to an infected person or anything contaminated by an infectious agent to make possible the transmission of the infectious agent to the person.
(8) CULTURES means growths of micro- organisms in or upon artificial media. The material for culture is obtained from body fluids, secretions, or excreta and is used for the purpose of determining the presence of the infectious agent.
(9) DISINFECTION means the process of destroying the vitality of the disease-producing organisms by physical or chemical means.
(10) DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH or DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH means the city health officer.
(11) IMMUNES means persons having had the disease. Persons having a negative Schick test will be considered immune to diphtheria. Persons having had immune globulin for measles, toxoid for whooping cough, or vaccines for typhus and typhoid are not considered as being immune.
(12) INCUBATION PERIOD of a communicable disease means the interval that usually elapses between the time of the implanting of the specific pathogenic agent into the body of a susceptible person and the manifestation of the first symptoms of the disease.
(13) INFECTIOUS AGENT means a living micro-organism capable, under favorable conditions, of inciting a communicable disease. The words “germ,” “micro-organism,” “infectious agent” and “virus” are used interchangeably.
(14) ISOLATION means the separation of persons suffering from a communicable disease, or carriers of the infectious organism, from other persons in such places and under such conditions as will prevent the direct conveyance of the infectious agent to susceptible persons.
(15) MODIFIED ISOLATION includes: First, the confinement of the patient and attendants to one room or suite of rooms to which none but authorized officers or attendants shall have admission, but allowing the attendants to pass out of the room after disinfection of person and complete change of clothing; second, screening as provided in the definition of absolute isolation; third, the prohibition of passing any object or material out of the such room until it has been disinfected.
(16) MODIFIED QUARANTINE includes: First, prohibition of entrance and exit, an absolute quarantine except against certain members of the family authorized by the director of public health to pass in and out under certain definite restrictions; second, the placing of a placard as provided in the definition of absolute quarantine; third, isolation of the patient and attendant; fourth, prohibition of the carrying out of any object or material unless the same has been thoroughly disinfected.
(17) PARTIAL DISINFECTION means disinfection of discharges or excretions of patients and their clothing and the room or rooms occupied by the patients during illness.
(18) PERIOD OF COMMUNICABILITY means the time during which a person affected with a communicable disease is capable of transmitting the infectious agent to others.
(19) QUARANTINE means the confining of persons, animals, or materials within a designated area and excluding other persons, animals, or materials from such area.
(20) RENOVATION means, in addition to cleansing, such treatment of the walls, floors, and ceilings of rooms or houses as may be necessary to place the premises in a satisfactory sanitary condition. (Ord. Nos. 4404; 27697)