The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
[BY AUTHORITY
AN ORDINANCE.
IN RELATION TO QUARANTINE.

SECTION BE it ordained by the
City CouaactL of Salt Lake Citg :
That said city and all that district
of country embraced within twelve
miles Of the outer limits thereof, be,
and the same are, hereby declare d
subject to quarantine regulations.
SEC. 2. The City Council shall ap-
point one or more quarantine ply
scians, each CT whom, before enter
ing upon the duties of his office,
shall take and subscribe an oath, and
give bonds in the penal sum of
two thousand dollars, cond tioned
for the faithful performances thereof,
who, associated with the Mayor and
the standing committee of the City
Counc | on sanitary regulations and
quarantine, shall constitute board
OF quarantine. whose duty it shall
be to max and enforce quarantine
regulations within the above de
scribed quarantine limits.
SEC. 8. If any person or persons
shall be found in an unhealthy con
dition from any contagious disease,
within the aforesaid quarantine
limits, they shall, if in the judg-
ment OF said Board OF 0 arsntine,
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
to 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 fer the
person so infected 10 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 adequa
for the public safety, COM
pei the strict quarantining of
said place OF abode by causing
to be kept displayed conspicuously
upon such premises, during the
period OF danger, flag OF such color
and bearing such ords ard device
as they may direct. as well as by es.
tablishing a guard at or near the
same; by giving notice in the most
public manner practicable tn vt said
premises are injected; 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 disiDfecting sald
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 and the manner thereof. And
il the effects OF any PERSON be found
in a condition liable to 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 quarantined, until all danger
Of infection shall have passed; and
such measures for the publication
Of said premises shall be taken as in
the judgment of the quarantine ply
stefan shall be necessary.
SEC. 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 quarantine
physician and all physicians, nurses
and all other persons who have been
or shall be exposed to such con-
tsgious disease, are hereby FORBIDDEN
to mipgle with or be in the presence
of others subject to the contagion,
without having first changed their
outer 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 f1sg
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 ty i'm
prisonment in the city Jail not ex-
ceediDg ninety days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, ct the
discretion Of the court.
SEC. 6. CHAPTER XVIII of "The