Sec. 369. Control of communicable diseases—duty of
physicians.
(1) All physicians practicing their profession within the limits
of the City, or within one mile thereof, who shall have cases
of contagious or infectious diseases within said limits, shall report
the same in writing to the Health Officer immediately after
the facts shall have come to their knowledge. For every failure
to comply with this subsection, the penalty shall be $10.00.
(2) Owners or occupants of all residences, tenements or
rooms within the City or within one mile thereof, where highly
communicable diseases exist shall directly or through their physicians,
notify the Health Officer of the existence and character
of such disease.
(3) Immediately upon the receipt of the information that any
case of highly communicable disease exists in the City, or within
one mile thereof, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer, or
his duly authorized representative, to visit the case and in his
discretion establish strict quarantine on all persons of the premises
or remove the case to a place of detention if such be established.
The Chief of Police shall assist the Health Officer in enforcing
quarantine order.
(4) On receipt of the information of the existence of such
disease the Health Officer shall see that the residence, tenement
or rooms, where the infected person is located, is properly placarded
and shall notify the Superintendent of Public Schools to
prevent any teachers, scholars, or employees residing in such residences,
tenement or rooms, from attending the Public Schools of
the City without a written certificate from the Health Officer that
it is safe for such person to do so.
(5) No person shall knowingly sell, or cause to be sold, or
otherwise dispose of in any such manner as to cause said disease
to spread, any clothes, bed clothing, or any other article or articles
which are infected.
(6) No one shall displace, deface, remove, cover or conceal
from view any placard or notice posted as above provided until
the quarantine is raised by the Health Officer or his duly authorized
representative.
(7) Any persons violating provisions of this Section shall be
fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 for each offense,
unless otherwise provided.
