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Every physician or other persons having knowledge of any person affected or apparently affected with any communicable disease which is quarantinable or subject to isolation shall report to the health department the name of the disease; the name, age, sex, race and address of the patient; the location, place of employment or school attended by the patient; and the name and address of the person making report. The report shall be made within six hours after the case comes under observation, preferably by telephone. A specimen sent to the health department for laboratory diagnosis accompanied by the data given in this section shall be considered as a report.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.403; 1992 Code, § 19-82)
Every practicing physician shall report in writing to the health officer the death of any of his or her patients who shall have died of any communicable disease, within 24 hours after death. He or she shall state in the report the specific name and type of the disease causing the death.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.403; 1992 Code, § 19-84)
The health officer shall cause a notice or placard as prescribed by the state board of health to be placed upon or near any house or apartment in which any person is infected with a communicable disease which has been classed as quarantinable or subject to isolation by the health officer.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.404; 1992 Code, § 19-85)
The physician or any other person permitted to visit any person infected with communicable disease shall practice those measures of personal cleansing, disinfecting and all other precautions necessary to prevent the spread of the disease to others.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.405; 1992 Code, § 19-86)
No person who has been sick with any of the communicable diseases declared to be quarantinable or subject to isolation and who has been quarantined or isolated in any place under the direction of the health department shall be allowed to leave that place without the permission of the health officer.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.406; 1992 Code, § 19-87)
The health officer shall secure or cause to be secured material for cultures or specimens for bacteriological or other laboratory examination to assist in determining the diagnosis of communicable diseases whenever in his or her judgment the procedure is necessary. Any person when requested by him or her shall permit the specimen to be taken.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.407; 1992 Code, § 19-88)
(a) Method of control of contacts. The health officer shall have the power to isolate or restrict the movements of any person who is known to have been exposed to any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation for a time equal to the maximum period of incubation of the disease, or for the period between the minimum and maximum incubation periods of the disease.
(b) Control of carriers. The health officer may isolate, quarantine or restrict the movement of carriers of the infectious agent of cerebrospinal fever, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or any other communicable disease until their discharges are shown to be free from the specific organisms of the disease.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.408; 1992 Code, § 19-89)
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