Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-16

Fever, hembraneOus Group, &c.
The State of Pennsylvania has OK.
cellsnt regulations concerning con
tagioue diseases, the law now In effect
having been passed in 1895. 1t is do.
signed to protect the public health |
and is cummendable precautionary |
measure.
The law provides that every ply
sician in any municipality in the State |
shall report in writing to tho local
health authorities all details concerning
the existence OF any contagious disease
coming under their care, tho list OF
diseases being expressly stated. The
health authorities. upon receiving
notice Of the existence of any ouch
disease may place upon or near tho
promises in which case exists q
placard bearing the MANS of the
disease, and may also place guards on
the premises where cases exist. The
plRcards shall remain until ordered re-
moved by the health authorities and
should they be taken down or destroyed
tho head of the family, provided he or
she shall know OF it, shall be liahle to
q penalty. Provision is also made for
diainfecting premises, and any person
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persons who have died of contagious
disease shall thoroughly disiniect and
place every such body within the coffin
OF casket in which it ia to be buried
within six hours after being first called
upon to take charge of it, If the call is
made bewteen a. N. and IL p. m,
and IL hours il made at any other
time. The body Of person who has
died OF any contagious disease shall
not remain unburied more than &c
hours after death. unless by special
permission from the health authorities,
and the head of the family or any person
having charge of the body is held
liable for violation of the law in this
respect. All funeral services must be
private and only adult relatives and
adult pail. bearers shall be admitted,
and any advertisement of such funeral
shall state the cause of death. The
body shall not be taken into any
church, chapel or public hall. All
conveyances used for such funerals
shall be fumigated and tlisinfected as
the local health authorities direct.
Upon the removal to hospital or
other place, or upon the discharge or
recovery or death of any person suffer-
ing from such diseases, the premises
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fumigated and disinfected, as shall also
the clothing, bedding and other in.
fected articles
No child or other person belonging to
or residing With the family of any per-
son, or residing in the same house in
which any person ia suffering from a
contagious disease, shall be permitted
10 attend any public, private, parochial,
Sunday, or other school in the munich
pality, and school principals, Sunday
school superintendents and other per.
sons in charge are required to SOC that
the law is not violated in this respect.
Such persons shall not be permitted to
return TO the schools until they can
furnish certificates from the medical
attendant at the house in which they
reside, or by physician to be
designated by the health authoritips of
sud municipalities, setting forth that
80 dayH have fully expired.
Principnle of schools are required to
refuse admission to children unless they
can furnish certificates from physIcans
stating that they have been vaccinated
or have had the smallpox. The prin,
cipals small be furnished with the nscps-
sary blanks. upon which they shall re-
cord all transactions required of them
in the act.
The health authorities shall furnish
daily Ivy mail or otherwise to princi.
pals or persons in charge of schools a
printed or written bulletin containing
the name. location ana disease of all per
SONS suffering from contagious Diseases.
No person suffering from any con-
tagious disease shall be permitted tn
enter any hired vehicle or other public
conveyance or permit any ono in his or
her charge who is so suffering to enter
such vehicle without previously notify
ing the owner or driver, and the owner
or driver. in case person SO suffering
shall have entered, shall Immediately
disinfect such conveyance after it has
been used for such purpose
No person suffering from anv contag.
ious disease shall expose him or herself
in public. No person shall, without
previous disinfection, give, loan, sell,
transmit or expose any bedding. cloth
ing, rags or other articles which have
been exposed to infection.
No person shall knowingly LET any
room. house or part Of house, in
which there has been person suffering
from a contagious disease, without
having SUCH room, house or part of a
house and all articles therein liable Ia
infection disiniected to the satisfaction
OF the health authorities
The health authoritios OF the sevsrul
municipalities are permitted 20 make
such regulations as they see fit 10 make
the law further effective. Offenders
against the law arc Liable TO fines not
less than So and not more than 500, in
default of which offenders may he sent
to jail for period not exceeding GO days.
Tbs diseases enumerated in the Penn,
Hylvania law are as follows: Cholera,
SINAI .pox, yellow fever, typhus fever,
scarlet fever relapsing fever diphtheria,
diphthcretic Group, mamhrane0us crouE
and leprosy.