(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)