(A) The Board of Health or a majority of such Board shall have power, upon the appearance of smallpox, cholera or any other contagious disease, within the city limits, for the purpose of preventing the spread of any such disease, to close public or private schools; to prevent the assemblage of public meetings; to close any house to the public where such disease exists; to fence up the streets in the infected neighborhood; to provide regulations by which infected families may be provided with necessary supplies; to prevent the occupants of any house where such disease is located from going about the city, and to require such occupants to be kept and confined within their respective dwellings, or places of abode, or place to which they have been removed, so long as there is danger of transmitting the disease; to prevent physicians from visiting patients so infected, without taking necessary precaution to prevent the spread of the disease; to give notice, by placards, to the public, of the existence at any house of the disease, and to warn the public to avoid the same, and to provide a suitable place and cause any person so afflicted to be removed to the same.
(B) Every physician who shall visit or be called to visit any person in the city afflicted with smallpox, or any other contagious or infectious disease, shall forthwith report the same within eight hours, in writing, to the City Health Officer describing the locality of the patient, so that he or she may be easily found, and upon failure to do so, shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $200.
(C) It shall be the duty of the City Health Officer receiving notice from any physician, or from any other person, that any person is afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease to immediately inform the Mayor thereof; it shall be the duty of the City Health Officer, upon receipt of such information from any source, to cause suitable notices with the name and kind of the disease printed or written thereon in large, plain letters, to be posted upon or near the building or place where such contagious or infectious disease exists, in two conspicuous places and have such notices kept up during the prevalence of such disease. If any person or persons shall deface, alter, mutilate, destroy or tear down such notice, without permission of the City Health Officer, such person or persons shall be liable for each offense to pay a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $200; the occupant of any house upon which such notice shall be placed or posted, as aforesaid, shall be held responsible for the removal of the same, and if the same shall be removed without permission of the City Health Officer, such occupant shall be subject to a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $200, unless he or she shall notify the City Health Officer within 12 hours after such removal.
(D) All persons having smallpox, or any other contagious or infectious disease, whether residing within the city or not, are hereby forbidden and prohibited from going about within the city; nor shall any person who has been knowingly exposed to, or is afflicted with any such disease, be allowed to come into the city while in danger of spreading such disease, and whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $200.
(E) That it shall be the duty of each and every practicing physician in the city to report in writing to the City Health Officer the death of any of his patients who shall have died in the city of contagious or infectious disease within 24 hours thereafter, and to state in such report the specific name and type of such disease.
(F) It shall be the duty of each and every physician or other person to report to the City Health Officer immediately after he or she has discovered the same, the name and place of residence of any person in the city who is suffering from tuberculosis, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, or other contagious disease, also typhoid fever and cerebrospinal fever.
(Ord. 557, passed 8-25-1942)