The teacher, principal or president of any school, college, university of Sunday school having under his care any pupil who appears to be affected by any communicable disease shall promptly send such pupil home or separate him from other pupils until examined by a physician. The teacher, principal or president shall report the case in accordance with Section 19-62.
In the event of the presence of any disease as specified in Section 19-61, the director of public health may cause to be examined any pupils, teachers or other persons employed in the schools, and may take any measures necessary to prevent the spread of disease. All school authorities and employees shall conform to all rules and regulations of the department of public health for the accomplishment of this end.
Children having scarlet fever, diphtheria, acute poliomyelitis or smallpox, and their contacts, may return to school only after presentation to the principal of a certificate of freedom from disease signed by the director of public health or his authorized representative. Children having had other diseases may return only after presenting to the principal a certificate of freedom from disease signed by the attending physician or the director of public health, or after it is determined that the minimum period of isolation prescribed in Section 19-71 for the disease the child had is completed. In cases where the director of public health has had to exercise his discretion in quarantining, the authorization to return to school must be given by the director of public health, or his authorized representative. When in doubt concerning any case, the school principal may require that release certificates be signed personally by the director of public health or assistant director of public health.
No superintendent, principal or teacher of any school, and no parent or guardian of any child or minor, shall permit any such child or minor having head lice or body lice to attend any public, private, parochial or Sunday school until such child or minor shall have obtained a certificate from the department of public health or from a private physician attesting to his freedom from lice. (Ord. Nos. 4404; 5869)