The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-30
TO STOP EPIDEMICS
Preventive Rules Adopted by Cascades
Board of Health.
WISE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
The Punishment for Violation 10 q
Fine OF $500 or Six Months In
Prison, or Both : Sand ~
Coulee's Quarantine. sfa'

Great Falls. Nov. 2s.-The county
board Of health. consisting of the coun-
ty commissioners and DIR. A. +. Lone
way, ex-ofiicio chairman, met In spe-
cial session again to-day and adopted
rules and regulations for the preven-
ton of contagious diseases In Cascade
county. the principal object being to
suppress the epidemic OF diphtheria
now prevalent In San Coulee. The
rules require that all privdes and cess
pools shall be more than Is feet from
any well or spring and shall be cleaned
and disinfected whenever ordered by
DR.. Longeway. No house offal or dead
animals of any kind shall be exposed
and all cellars must be cleaned when
ordered. All keepers of hotels or res
taurants shall provide a properly COW
cred receivable for swin and offal.
which shall be emptied weekly and all
stables must be kept clear and free Of
manure. No hogs shall be kept within
200 feet Of any dwelling or source OF
drinking water.
II a person is ascertadned to have
attended school when affected with
either diphtheria, measles. scarlet
fever. membraneous Group, whooping
cough or smallpox, the heabth officer
must Immediately close the room
where such persons attended and d.
rect the application of proper disin-
fectant and may close all schools in
the district indefinitely.
All physicians must report contagious
diseases within II hours. and 1t shall
be the duty of the health officer on
being notified of the existence Of any
contagious disease to repair to the
place or places where such contagious
disease exists and use due preoaution
to prevent the spread of the disease.
He may prevent all intercourse with
the neighbors. and he shall put up on
or in front of the said infected house
a card with the name Of the disease
printed thereon, and no person shall
be allowed to visit said house while
the card is there, only on order of the
health officer. and then only the neces-
sary person to care for the sick, and
no person shall deface, destroy or re-
move the card.
No person shall expose himself or
another affected with "a contagious or
infectious disease in any public place.
No public or church funeral OF any
person who may die from contagious
disease shall be held and no person
whose presence Is unnecessary shall
attend the funeral Amy person vfo-
lating the rules shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding $500, or six months
in prison. or both such fine or impris-
onment.
The board ordered 500 placards bear
ing the rules posted throughout the
county. and DIR. Longeway has already
proceeded TO enforce a rigid quarantine
In Sand Coulee. The infected houses
are closely watched by the officers and
any person who infrnges the rules
will be vigorously prosecuted. 1t ~
due to Deputy Sheriff Sires OF Sand
Coulee to say that he has used his ut
most efforts to prevent the spread OF
disease at the camp, but up to this
time he has been handicapped by want
OF authority to act in an official man
ner in stopping foreigners from visit
ing each other and otherwise violating
all rules adopted for the maintenance
of health.