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§ 92.112 REPORTABLE DISEASES.
   The diseases which shall be reported by physicians, as required by this subchapter, shall be as required by the board of health from time to time.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.403; 1992 Code, § 19-83)
§ 92.113 REPORTS OF DEATHS.
   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)
§ 92.114 NOTICE ON PREMISES.
   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)
§ 92.115 PRECAUTIONS BY ATTENDANTS.
   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)
§ 92.116 PERMIT TO LEAVE QUARANTINED OR ISOLATED PREMISES.
   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)
§ 92.117 LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS.
   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)
§ 92.118 METHOD OF CONTROL OF CONTACTS; CONTROL OF CARRIERS.
   (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)
§ 92.119 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN SCHOOLS.
   (a)   The teacher of any school, college, university or Sunday school having under his or her care any pupil who appears to be affected with any communicable disease shall promptly send the pupil home or separate him or her from other pupils until examined by a physician, and the pupil shall not be readmitted to school without the permission of the health officer.
   (b)   If any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation are present, the health officer may cause to be examined any pupils, teachers or other persons employed in the schools and may take any measures necessary to prevent the spread of disease. All school authorities and employees shall conform to all rules and regulations of the health department for the accomplishment of this end.
   (c)   The health officer shall immediately inform the school authorities of the presence of cases of communicable diseases in any of the schools.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.409; 1992 Code, § 19-90)
§ 92.120 CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS.
   (a)   No person from any house wherein there is any person affected with any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation shall attend any public, private or sectarian school until the recovery or death of the sick person, nor until provided with a permit in writing signed by the health officer. This permit must be presented to the principal or teacher of the school before the person is allowed to resume attendance.
   (b)   All physicians, upon the discovery of any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation, shall instruct the parents or guardian of any child or minor who may be residing at the infected premises of the provisions of this section.
   (c)   The principal or teacher of any school shall report at once by telephone to the health officer any violation of this section.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.409; 1992 Code, § 19-91)
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