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Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the director of public health that any infectious or contagious diseases exist or are likely to exist among the school children or pupils attending the public schools of the city or private schools, it shall be the duty of such officer to immediately examine and investigate the condition of any such school, or of any child or pupil attending same for the purpose of ascertaining if there exists any contagious or infectious disease, or is likely to exist any contagious infectious disease. If any pupil or child attending any school is found with any contagious disease, he shall, upon the order of the officer, discontinue his attendance at the school, and shall not return or attempt to return to same until the infectious or contagious disease is entirely cured. It shall be the duty of the teacher, principal or superintendent in charge of such pupil, child or school to disallow and prohibit the child or pupil from attending the school until such child or pupil is entirely cured and freed from any contagious or infectious disease. (Ord. 7802)
When it shall come to the knowledge of the keeper or proprietor of any hotel, tavern, boardinghouse or inn that any inmate thereof shall be sick with smallpox, varioloid, yellow fever or any other infectious or contagious disease he shall forthwith report the same to the director of public health. (Ord. 7802)
Every person suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in Section 19-61 shall isolate himself and every person in charge of such a person shall isolate the person of whom he is in charge in the following manner: When the disease is smallpox, the person affected shall be placed in absolute quarantine; when the disease is diphtheria, acute poliomyelitis or scarlet fever, the person affected shall be placed in modified quarantine; when the disease is epidemic meningitis, the person affected shall be placed in modified isolation; when the disease is malaria, yellow fever, dengue or encephalitis, the person affected shall be kept in a screened room free from mosquitoes until the infection organism is no longer found in the blood; when the disease is any of the others mentioned in Section 19-61, the person affected shall be so restricted in movement that the disease will not spread from him to others. No person other than the physician or person in charge of or in attendance upon the patient shall enter any premises, room or apartment quarantined for a communicable disease in violation of the terms of the quarantine. No person shall wilfully or negligently expose any other person to a communicable disease. (Ord. Nos. 4404; 5869)
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