Chapter 8-04
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Sections:
8-04-010 Report to health officer.
8-04-030 Diseases to be reported.
8-04-040 Exclusion from schools.
8-04-010 Report to health officer.
Every physician who shall prescribe for or attend any person having or suspected of having any of the following contagious, epidemic, or communicable diseases:
Actinomycosis
Amebiasis, abdominal
Ankylostomiasis (hookworm)
Anthrax
Botulism and other forms of food poisoning
Chickenpox
Cholera (Asiatic)
Dengue
Diarrhea in children under one year of age (in institutions)
Diphtheria
Dysentery (bacillary and other infective types)
Erysipelas
Favus
German Measles
Glanders
Gonorrhea
Impetigo Contagiosa (in institutions)
Influenza, epidemic
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcus Meningitis (cerebrospinal fever and other acute infectious meningitis)
Mumps
Typhus Fever
Undulant Fever and Malta Fever Vincent’s Angina and other infectious anginas
Whooping Cough
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (conjunctivitis of the newborn)
Ophthalmia (other infectious types)
Paratyphoid Fever
Pellagra
Plague
Pneumonias, the primary and the pneumonias complicating influenza, measles and whooping cough
Poisonings, heavy metals, drugs, occupational and other poisonings
Poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis)
Psittacosis
Rabies
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (tick fever)
Scarlet Fever
Septic Sore Throat
Smallpox
Syphilis
Tetanus
Trachoma
Trichiniasis
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, other than Pulmonary
Tularemia
Typhoid Fever
Yellow Fever or any of the grades of such diseases or any other disease designated as contagious, epidemic, or communicable by the health officer shall, within twenty-four (24) hours after first discovering the existence of such disease make a report thereof in writing to the health officer; which report shall give the name, if known, and the place of residence of the person having such disease, together with the character and state of his disease. (Prior code § 7-1-1)
8-04-020 Placarding.
It is the duty of the health officer to cause a notice printed or written in large letters to be placed upon or near any house in which any person may be afflicted or sick with the following:
Anthrax
Chickenpox
Cholera (Asiatic)
Diphtheria, cases and carriers
Dysentery (bacillary and other infective types) Measles
Meningococcus Meningitis (cerebrospinal fever) and other acute infectious meningitis cases and carriers
Paratyphoid Fever
Plague
Poliomyelitis
Psittacosis
Rabies
Scarlet Fever, cases and convalescent carriers Smallpox
Typhoid Fever
Typhus Fever
Whooping Cough
Tuberculosis (in such cases as are not observing all hygiene rules to prevent communication to others)
upon which shall be written or printed, the name of such disease; and if any person or persons shall deface, alter, mutilate, destroy or tear down such notice, without permission of the health officer, such person shall be liable for such offense. The occupant of any house upon which such notice shall be placed or posted as aforesaid, shall be held responsible for the removal of the same, and if the same shall be removed without the permission of the health officer, such occupant shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor unless he shall notify the health officer, within twenty-four (24) hours after the removal of the same. (Prior code § 7-1-2)
8-04-030 Diseases to be reported.
Any cases of communicable or contagious diseases not regularly attended by a qualified physician, must be reported by any person having knowledge thereof and the provisions of this chapter must be followed. (Prior code § 7-1-3)
8-04-040 Exclusion from schools.
Whenever smallpox exists no child, teacher or other person employed in or about a school building shall be admitted, received or retained in any public, private or parochial school or shall be permitted to attend school who does not present to the proper school authorities a certificate signed by a physician to the effect that he has had smallpox or that he has been recently successfully vaccinated with an external vaccination. No certificate shall be accepted unless it indicates the date of the previous attack of smallpox, or the recent successful external vaccination, as the case may be. (Prior code § 7-1-4)