(A) The City Health Officer, upon being notified in any way of the existence of any of the diseases which are required to be reported by law or rules of the State Board of Health, shall immediately, in person or by deputy, quarantine the infected house, rooms, or premises to as to isolate effectually the cases, and the family if necessary, in a manner and for a time as may be necessary to prevent transmission of the disease. Whenever a house, tenement, or room is placed in quarantine, a placard shall be posted in a conspicuous position, giving the name of the disease, in letters not less than two inches high, and also containing the following quarantine order: “All persons are forbidden to enter or leave these premises without special permit from the City Health Officer, and all persons are forbidden to remove or mutilate this card, or to interfere in any way with this quarantine without orders from the Health Officer.” When visiting persons afflicted with smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, or other infectious disease named in the rules of the State Board of Health, all physicians and health officers shall take precautions as are directed in the rules of the State Board of Health covering the matter.
(B) Whenever a physician shall report, in writing, to the State Board of Health that a person having gonorrhea, chancroid, or syphilis in an infectious state, whom he or she has treated and examined, cannot properly and safely be treated at home, he or she shall communicate the fact to the State Board of Health and make recommendations as he or she may deem proper; and when it is possible and in the judgment of the State Health Commissioner it is advisable, the reported person shall be quarantined and treatment given until a time as the patient may be no longer infectious.
(C) No person other than a licensed physician, undertaker, or nurse in the discharge of his or her duty may enter or leave any house or building under quarantine or enter or leave any quarantined area without first procuring permission from the City Health Officer and obeying absolutely his or her directions as to all sanitary precautions which he or she may require.
(D) When a case of any of the quarantinable diseases has recovered or has been terminated by death, the attending physician shall notify the City Health Officer and as soon thereafter as the City Health Officer deems it advisable and safe, he or she shall instruct the family and members of the household as to terminal disinfection necessary and required, and when the necessary instructions have been carried out, the quarantine shall be released.
(Prior Code, § 91.051) Penalty, see § 91.9999