Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-01-06

The Board Of Health 81 this city W1sh
us 10 give notice, this week, that they
will require all children, id whose homes
there has been scarlet fever or diphthfrla
to present 10 their respective teachers g
note from the Board of Health certifying
that their homes and persons have been
properly and thoroughly disinfected.
This act of precaution is very necessary
in the present outbreak, in order to pre-
vent some children from attending public
school before they are wholly free from
the disease, and to prevent Others from
carrying the germs Of the disease in their
clothing, where disinfectlon has not been
thoroughly performed. Please read the
law of the State defining the duties Of
teachers to such children: y
power to forbid, by notices posted upon
the entrances to premises where there
may be patient sick with such disease.
any person except the medical attendants
and spiritual advisers, from going to- or
leaving said premises without their per-
mission, or carrying or causing to be car
ried, any material whereby said disease
may he conveyed. until after said disease
has-abated. and the premises. dwelling
and clothing have been rendered free
from disease by such disinfecting means
as the board may direct; and If said board
shall be informed that the above, or any
reasonable or sanitary measures which
they have adopted and made public, is or
has been violated, then the said board
may cause said offender against this act
to be apprehended and brought before an
officer having Jurisdiction; and said Of
fender shall, upon conviction, be liable
to fine in the sum of not less, than five
dollars $50 nor more than twenty five dol
lars ($25) for any violation of this act.
That every physician shall report to
the local board of health, in writing,
every person having contagious disease
and the state of his or her disease, and
his or her place of dwelling, and name
if known, which such physician has pre-
scribed for or attended for the first time
since having a contagious disease; or
since the discovery of the same to be con-
tagicus. during any part OF the preced-
ing "a hours; but not more than two re-
ports shall be required in one week
concerning the same person; but every
attending physician thereat must see
that such report is or has been made by
some attending physician.
That it shall be the duty Of each and
every practicing physician, in this state,
to report in writing to the local board OF
health the death Of any of his patients
who shall have died of contagious or in.
fictitious disease, within "a hours thereaf
ter, and to state in such report the spec.
fed [speciic] name and type of such dis
ease.
That no principal, superintendent OF
teacher Of any school. and no parent,
master or guardian of any child or minor
having the power and authority to pre-
vent, shall permit any child or minor
having scarlet fever, diphtheria, small
pox or any dangerous, infectious or con-
tagious disease, or any child residing in
any house in which any such disease ex-
lists, or has recently existed, to attend
any public or private school until the
board of health of the town, village, Dor.
ough or city shall have given it permis
sion therefor; nor in any manner to be
unnecessarily exposed, or to needlessly
expose any other person to the taking OF
to the infection Of any contagious dis
ease