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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
(A) It shall be unlawful for any superintendent, teacher or other person in charge to admit into any public or private school any person infected with a contagious disease.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any superintendent, teacher or other person in charge to admit any person into any public or private school who comes from any house or building infected with any contagious or infectious disease or who may have recently been afflicted with smallpox, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, membraneous croup, measles, cholera or other contagious or infectious disease until the person coming from the infected building, or recently afflicted, shall first present a certificate signed by a reputable physician that all danger of communicating the disease to others is past and the certificate is endorsed by the Secretary of the Board of Health.
(Prior Code, § 95.10) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to go from any house or building infected with smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, cholera or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to public health, to attend any church, public meeting or place of amusement, or to travel in any street car or public vehicle, or to appear in any public street or highway without making a complete change of clothing and obtaining a permit from the Secretary of the Board of Health.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian or other person having charge or control of any child to allow or permit any child to go from any house or building infected with smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, cholera or other contagious or infectious disease, to attend any church, public meeting or place of amusement, or to travel in any street car or in any public vehicle, or to appear in any public street or highway.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person who is or has been infected with any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to public health to appear on a public street or highway or in any public place or public conveyance without a certificate from his or her attending physician and the certificate endorsed by the Secretary of the Board of Health that all danger from contagion by reason of the disease is past.
(Prior Code, § 95.11) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Whenever any physician or his or her assistant shall know or suspect that any person whom he or she is called to treat has smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, cholera or any other disease dangerous to public health, the physician shall give notice immediately, together with the locality and full description of the case, to the Secretary of the Board of Health.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any householder who shall know or suspect that any person within his or her family or who may be temporarily residing with him or her is sick with smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera or any other disease dangerous to public health to fail, refuse or neglect to immediately give notice of the sickness, together with the locality and a full description of the case, to the Secretary of the Board of Health.
(Prior Code, § 95.12) Penalty, see § 10.99
Any person except those having had smallpox, exposed to the disease shall within 24 hours of exposure cause himself or herself to be vaccinated or revaccinated with nonhumanized virus, intended to prevent him or her from contracting the disease. Pecuniary inability shall not be a defense under a prosecution for a violation of this section unless reported to the Board of Health and it has failed, refused or neglected to vaccinate or provide for vaccination.
(Prior Code, § 95.13) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) When the Secretary of the Board of Health has knowledge or notice of a case of smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, cholera or any other contagious or infectious disease he or she shall cause cards or flags of warning not less than 12 inches square to be fastened to the front door, or other conspicuous place in the building where the sickness prevails. The card or flag for smallpox shall be red and shall have printed thereon “smallpox,” for scarlet fever, measles and diphtheria it shall be yellow and have “scarlet fever,” “measles” or “diphtheria” printed thereon in large letters, for cholera a black flag or card having “cholera” printed thereon and white letters shall be used.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cause to be removed any card or flag described in division (A) above from any building where the card or flag has been posted until a certificate is made by the attending physician to the Secretary of the Board of Health, that the disease has subsided and all danger from contagion by reason of the disease is past and that proper disinfections have been accomplished.
(Prior Code, § 95.14) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person who may have charge of anyone who has died of smallpox to fail, refuse or neglect to cause the body of the person to be interred within 12 hours of the death.
(B) Whenever any person has died from smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or cholera the body must be placed in a coffin by the person who may have charge or control of the body as soon as possible, and the coffin securely closed and never again opened.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any undertaker or other person who shall have charge, control or direction of the funeral of any person who has died from smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or cholera, to conduct a funeral or permit a funeral to be conducted as a public funeral. The funeral shall be strictly private and it shall be unlawful for any person, other than immediate relatives of the deceased and the necessary help to conduct the funeral, to attend the funeral.
(Prior Code, § 95.15) Penalty, see § 10.99
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