The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12
AN IMPORTANT ACT.
To Prevent the Spread Of Communicable
Diseases in Tennessee.

AS AOAAONlhS 10 " SOPJ VI Ul
act to prevent the spread Of COM
municable diseases and to fix the
penalty for the violation Of this act,
approved April 10, 1893" Presi-
dent j. d. Plunket, M. D., Of the
State board Of health, respectfully
urges that every practitioner Of
medicine, the head Of every hotel,
boarding house OF other household
in Tennessee, together with the re-
spective county and municipal
boards Of health, also the several
boards of education and the county
superintendent Of public instruc-
zion to cooperate in the execution
of this important law:
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
general assembly Of the State of
Tennessee, That whenever any case
Of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera,
or other communicable disease ex-
ist Except it shall not embrace any
yeneral disease such as gonorrhea,
syphilis), or is suspected to exist
in any household, it shall be the
duty of the head of said household
to Immediately notify the munich
pal or county health authorities Of
the town or county wherein such
disease or diseases exist OF is sup
posed to exist.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
That whenever any physician, sur
geon, or practitioner of medicine
shall knew or suspect that a person,
or persons, whom he has been call
ed to visit, or who has been brought
to him for examination, is infected
with any Of the aforementioned dis
eases, he shall Immediately notify
the health authorities Of the town
or county in which said diseased
person, or persons, are found.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of all mu-
nicipal rcounty health authorities
aforesaid, without delay, upon re-
ceiving such notice as is above pro-
vided for, to Immediately proceed
to carry out such rules and regula-
tions as the State board Of health
may prescribe hayingfor their oh.
ject.the prevention and restriction
of Che disease, or diseases, afore
mentioned in Section / Of this act
Said local health authorities shal
further, upon the receipt of said no
tice Of existing or suspected disease
aforesaid, notify the board of edu
: cation Of such municipality, if th,
case exist in town, or, If in tn,
country, the county superintendent
of public instruction, Of the fact
in every such case, giving name
age and sex Of the Individual sosicB
name Of disease, street and numbe
Of house, if in town, OR if otherwis
sufficiently designate the house j
in the rural districts, and said pub
licschool authorities shall notallov
] anypupil to attendany publicschoc
> from said house while any inmate Q
! same is sick Of smallpox or othe
communicable disease, orduringth
period of two weeks after the deatl
? recovery, or removal of such sic
person.
Sec. A. Be it further enacted
That it shall be the duty Of each an
every municipal OF county board {
health in this State, upon receivin
information of the existence or sus
pected existence in their respectiy
) jurisdictions Of smallpox, choleri
q yellow fever, scarlet fever, diphth,
ria, or other diseases dangerous
) the public health, to immediatel
e notify the State board Of health I
d the fact, and, in addition, on Il
d first Of each and every month maE
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