Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-12-09
TO COMPEL VACCINATION.
State Board Of Health Decides to Ehforo,
the law in South Dakota.


State Board OF Health Decides to Enforce
the law in South Dakota.
DR.. Moffit, the Black Hills member of
the State Board Of Health, received the
following from the president OF the
board:
Sioux FALLS, Nov. 80, 1899.
My DEAR Doctor We have three
cases Of small pox In this county, and
/ deemed an emergency to exist and
called meeting of the state board. call
ing the nearest members by the phone.
l enclose copy of our order of yaccins.
ton. Respectfully,
J. Fl. FILES.
FOLLOWING Is THE ORDER.
First. All persons In this state over
the age of one year. who have not been
yaccinated, or who in the opinion Of
the local board Of health of the district
or Jurisdiction in which suish persons
reside or are found, do not furnish sat
isfactory evidence of protection from
small pox, are hereby ordered to be
vaccinated. Every person entering any
public or private school Of South Da-
kota must give satisfactory evidence of
protection by vaccination. The fact of
vaccination and protection must be en-.
tered with each name on the school
record, and on transfer and promotion
lists.
Second. Local boards Of health and
all officers who compose said boards,
and all shsriffs, constables, city mar
shals, and police officers within their
respective jurisdictions are hereby di-
recled to enforce the foregoing order
as soon as practicable. and so far as
said order shall apply to the pupils of
any public or private school or to the
teachers thereof. The officers Of the
school IL held shall also require its en-
forcement.
Third. Persons affected with diph
liberia (mem5ranous croup) measles,
mumps, rothein, sea rlet fever (scarlatina.
scarlet rash) whooping cough or small
pox, must be ex GUIDED from school un.
ill upon a certificate from the attending
physician, showing complete recovery,
thorough disinfection of his or her per-
son and clothing, and the disinfection
Of the home, the mayor or township
clerk, as the case may be, issues q writ
ten permit for their readmission, afer
the quarantine rules Of this board have
been first complied with. All other
persons from families where such dis.
eases exist shall also be excluded from,
the schools until they are furnished with
q permit as above required.
Fourth. Every school teacher who
discovers among his or her pupils a
case of contagious disease, must imme
diately report the fact to the mayor or
township clerk. as the case may be
also. to the superintendent or principal
of the school and to the parents Of the
children, and must send the pupils thus
afflicted to their homes at once. Teach.
ers must not visit premises wherein are
sick children with any contagious dis.
ease, and must carefully avoid exposure
to such diseases.
Fifth. II a person IL ascegtained to
have attended school when affected with
either of these contagious diseases, the
local board of health shall Immediately
close the room wherein such person at
tended until it has been properly disin-
| fected.
In case Of an outbreak Of small pox
in any community, or threatened out
break, every child attending the schools
and every teacher must be examined
relative to having been successfully vac.
cinated, and if they have not been vac.
cinated they must be excluded from the
schools until 80 protected. This vaccin
alton shall include the community gen
orally, so far as possible.
1t IL not the province Of the state
board to construe the statutes. or to
prescribe the manner OF enforcing rsgu.
lations by local boards. The state
board will not furnish virus. All mat.
ters relating to obtaining virus and the
| compensation for vaccination must be
determined bv local boa ds.
As to public schools. the order of the
state board is peremptory, and is an or
der for the quarantine of all schools
against children and teachers who do
not give evidence of successful vaccin.
alton. If the parents OF children re-
fuse to have them yaccinated, the chill.
dren must be excluded from school
until they conform TO the regulations
made. A record should he made Of the
name and residence Of all children SC
excluded.
Families may have the vaccination
done at their homes by whomsoevel
they please. For the indigent, poor
means should be provided for vaccina
tion at public expense, which will he
nothing in comparison 10 an outbreak
Of small pox in An unprotected commun'
! ity, liable by tramps, and by ilnporta'
tion in various ways.
It is Of great importance that locaI
boards and all persons, shonld secure
~
This done, the chances of unfavorable
results are reduced to the lowest posi-
bility.
Opposition to this order is onwise
absolutely false in fact. and nothing less
than the fsvoring the spread or small
pox. and bringing death and misfortune
where it might be prevented.
All local newspapers are requested to
publish this order.
FREDERICK II. FILES, Pres
A. +. CLoUGH, Secretary.