The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-09
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AN ORDINANCE.
IN RELATION TO QUARANTINE.

SECTION BE it ordained og u1e
City Council of Salt Lake cay:
That said city and AL hat ulslficC
of country embraced wlthln Gwe,Ve
miles of the on er limits thereof 6es
and the same are. hereby declared
subject to quarantine reg ulstlons'
SsC. 2. The City Council shall ap-
point one or more quarantine phy-
scians, each CT whom, before en,er-
ing upon the duties of his ehce;,
shall take and subscribe an oath, ana
give bonds in the penal sura OF
two thousand d)lla's, conditioned
for the faithful performance Ihereor,
VINO, associated with the Mayor and
the standing committee OF the CITY
Coupc on sanitary regulations ana
quarantine, shall constitute boaro
OF quarantine. whose duty it snail
be t. max and enforce quarantine
regulations within the above de :
scribed quarantine limits.
SEC. 8. If any person CT persons
shall be found in an unhealthy con-
dition from any contagious disease,
within the aforesaid quarantine
| limits, ssthey shall, If in the judg-
ment OF said Board OF Quarantine,
the safety OF the person so Infected,
or the public. shall render such ac-
ton necessary, be required to
move forthwith to such place.
within said limits, as said
Board may direct; and if any
such person shall neglect or refuse
10 comply Herewith, it shall be the
duty Of said Board to have it done
at the expense of said person; and
If, in the judgment OF said Board,
it shall be deemed advisable for the
person so infected to remain in his
usual place of abode for care and
treatment, the said Board may, by
the following means, or any part
thereof, or such other less stringent
means as said Board may, in the
particular case, deem adequate
for the public safety, COM
pei the strict quarantinipg Of
said place OF abode by causing
to be kept displayed cOnspicuouely
upon such premises, during the
period OF Danger, flag OF such color
and bearing such " ords az d device
as they may direct, as well as by es-
tsblishing a guard at or near the
same; by giving notice IN the most
public manner practicable tn 1t said
premises are infected; by regulating
and prohibiting ingresS and egress
to and from said premises, until all
danger from infection therein shall
have ceased, and the most thorough
measures for disiufec:ine said
premises shall have been taken; and
by prohibiting all public meetings,
schools and funerals within the in-
fected district; and by prescribing
the time within which persons dying
of contagious diseases shall be in
TERED aid the manner thereof. And
if the effects of'any rersOn be found
in a condition liable 10 'engender
contagious disease, the same shall,
at the discretion OF the quarantine
physician, be removed or destroyed
at the expense OF the owner Thereof;
and in the event OF the removal of
any person 30 infected, the premises
from which he is removed, and the
household thus exposed. shall be
strictly guaranteed, until all danger
Of infection shall have passed; and
such measures for the publication
of eaid premises shall be taken as in
the judgment of the quarantine ply
sician shall be necessary.
SEC. 4.-The names of all quaran-
tine physicians shall, when deemed
necessary by the Board, be pub
lished in some newspaper printed
in Salt Lake City. Ali physicians
or other persons having any knowl-
edge OF the existence Of any malig-
nant contagious disease, or having
reason to believe any such disease
exists, are hereby required to report
the same forthwith to a quarantine
physician and all physicians, nurses
and all other persons who have been
or shall be exposed to such con-
tagious disease, are hereby forbidden
to mingle with or be in the presence
of others subject to the contagion,
without having first changed their
onter clothing used where such dis
eases were and having taken such
other precautions against spreading
the contagion as may be prescribed
by said Board, or to otherwise ex-
pose any person to such centagion.
SEC. 5. ANY person neglecting or
refusing to comply with any of the
requirements of this ordinance, or
the requirements of said Board of
Quarantine, made in pursuance
thereof. or who shall take down or
remove any quarantine flag
from any infected premises,
shall, for each and every
such offense, upon conviction there
of, be punished by fine not exceed
ing ninety>nine dollars, or by i'm
prisonment in the city Ill not ex
ceeding ninety days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, at the
discretion Of the court.
SEC. 6. Chapter XVIII OF "The
Revised Ordinances and Resolutions
of Salt Lake City," adopted July
10th. 1875, In relation to quarantine,
is hereby repealed.
Passed April 29tb. 1884.
JAMES SHARE,
Mayor.
Attest.