(a) No person who is suffering from any communicable disease, such as trachoma, active tuberculosis of the lungs, open skin tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea, open external cancer or barber's itch shall be an employee in any public eating or drinking place.
(b) No person who is a carrier of any communicable disease, such as typhoid fever, diphtheria, septic sore throat, scarlet fever, etc., shall be an employee in any public eating or drinking place after written notice that such employee is a carrier of a communicable disease has been served upon the proprietor by a physician or by the Board of Health or by any officer thereof or of the State Department of Health. (1944 Code Ch. 13 §22.)