When a complaint is made or a reasonable belief exists that an infectious or contagious disease prevails in a house or other locality and has not been reported, the Board of Health shall cause such house or locality to be inspected and, upon discovering that such infectious or contagious disease exists, the Board may, as it deems best, send the person so diseased to a quarantine hospital or other place provided for such person, or restrain him and others exposed within such house or locality from intercourse with other persons, and prohibit ingress and egress to or from such premises.
(1969 Code Sec. 98.59)