The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-16
AN ORDINANCE

For Salt Lake County"
The Board of County Commissioners of
| the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah,
ordains as follows:
That all premises where either scarlet
! fever, diphtheria or smallpox has existed,
/ shall, before the quarantine flag is remov-
| ed be thoroughly diSinfected: the room
which has been occupied by the person
sick. with any of The above mentioned dis
| eases shall be thoroughly disinfected after
the recovery OF said person, or the death
/ of said person, as follows:
The floors, wood work and furniture
/ shall be thoroughly washed with a solu
/ ton of chloride OF lime, three ounces to
/ the gallon, or of corrosive sublimate of a
| strength not less than one part corro-
| sive sublimate to l,0o0 parts water. This
/ shall be followed after an internal of
! tWenty-four hours with a thorough scrub
/ bing with soap and hot water All dust
! shall be removed from said room and the
/ room shall be kept thoroughly clean. The
walls and ceilings of said room shall be
/ re-papered, or whitewaShed or painted, if
! such be advised by the local board of
1 health.
All carpets shall be burned or dislnfect-
ed by the action of super-heated steam.
or otherwise cleaned and disinfected, as
| directed by the local board of health.
All articles of clothing, hangings, bed
| linens and other fabrics shall be subjected
| 10 an action of boiling water or super
| heated steam. All school books in use by
| the person who has any contagious dis
/ ease shall be burned as soon as the dis
ease is known.
| sulphur snail be burned al said room,
/ under the direction of the local board of
/ health.
1t shall be the duty of every householder
! or every person in charge of every case
| of a contagious disease, when a warning
| sign has been displayed upon the premises
! which she or he occupies, to report
promptly the removal of such sign to
! the local board of health, unless the re
moval has been caused by order of said
board.
No person shall attend school from
nfg inf NrriFh INIT lgr1r
ease, except upon present ation of the
| proper certificate from the local board of
health. 1t shall be the duty of the per-
I son in attendance upon any contagious
disease to report to the local board of
/ health in every instance if children in the
same family, or other children in the
same building, attend school, and at what
school building attending.
All persons suffering from measles, scar
let fever, diphtheria- smallpox and whoop-
ing cough are to be isolated in rooms as
far removed as possible from those occu-
pied by other persons in the building. and
upon the top floor. when II is practicable.
No person other than the physician in at
tendance and the nurse or nurses and
parent or parents of the sick person shall
be admitted to SUCH room during the prev
alence of scarlet fever, diphtheria or
smallpox, and in no case shall the nurse
or nurses visit other portions of the house
without having taken precaution by
change of clothing or otherwise against
conveying contagion.
Every room occupied by a patient suf-
fering from any contagious or Infectious
disease shall be cleared of all needless
clothing, carpets, drapery, curtains or
other materials likely to harbor the pois-
ons of disease.
Soilec bed and body linen shall be i'm
mediately placed in vessels of water con-
tanning a solution of bi-chlOride Of mer-
curry. or chloride of lime, or some other
suitable disinfectant.
EXcremental discharges from the patient
suffering from contagious or infectious
diseases shall be received in vessels of
water containing such a solution as mem
toned in the preceding section, and all
vessels used shall be kept scrupulously
clean and thoroughly disinfected. Dis
charges from the throat, nose and mouth
shall be received upon pieces of cloth, cot
ton or paper, and must be Immediately
burned.
No person recovering from diphtheria.
scarlet fever, smallpox and whooping
cough shall be permitted to associate with
other persons until a certificate has been
furnished by the local board of health to
such person to the effect that they may
tagion, go abroad and associate with 9TH
ers.
An persons in charge of the premises
where contagious disease exists shall eX-
ercise all reasonable care in the preven-
ton of the co-mingling of persons who
come in contact with the patient. or any
other persons, whereby the contag1on
might be disseminated.
The body of any person who has died
from either diphtheria, scarlet fever or
smallpox snail De lUlUltuldtElE ulSlUltCltu
and placed in coffin, which shall be
tightly closed and shall not be taken to
any church or place of public assembly,
and shall be buried within forty-eight
hours unless otherwise ordered by the
local board of health.
No undertaken. or one acting in such
caDacity. shall conduct assist in con-
Quoting a public funeral in cases OF death
resulting from scarlet fever, diphtheria or
smallpox, and IL shall be the duty OF the
undertaken in charge of the body 10 see
taf mr. HiSfOfectiOn is made of such
cases as died from scarlet fever, diphthe-
ria or smallpox.
dwelling in which there is a case of either
diphtheria, scarlet fever or smallpox, nor
in which a death from either disease has
occurred.
sons having been exposed to any conta-
gious or infectious disease are forbidden
TO mingle with other persons subject
thereto in the clothing worn by them
while so exposed, unless the same has
been thoroughly disinfected, or to other
wise expose any other person TO such con-
tagion or infection.
The board of health shall have jurisdic-
ton in all matters pertaining to the pre-
servation of the health of those in at
tendance upon the public and private
schools in the county outside of incorpo-
rated cities, to which end il is hereby
made the duty of the said board of
To exclude from said schools any per-
son suffering with a contagious or intec-
tious disease, or liable to convey such dis
ease to those in attendance.
1t shall be the duty of the teacher or
school board not to allow any pupil to at
tend the district schools, or any member
of the household to which such pupil be-
longs is sick with any infectious or con-
tagious disease. nor during the period of
two weeks after the death, recovery, or
removal of such sick persons, then only
upon a certificate of a competent physi-
clan, or written permit of the district
school board.
To make inspection of all school build
ings and premises when deemed advisable
as to their hygienic condition, and to re-
port the result of such inspection to those
having charge and control of SUCH schools.
with instructions as to the remedy of
conditions Gf any such be found) whereby
the health of those in attendance may be
impaired or life endangered.
That in the event of failure or refusal OF
those having such charge and control to
carry out the instructions so given, then
the board of health shall cause such
faulty conditions TO be remedied at the
proper cost and expense of those having
charge and control of the school or
schools.
PENALTY.
That any person who violates. disobeys
omits neglects or refuses to comply WITH
or resists any of the provisions of this
ordinance, or who refuses or neglectS to
obey any of the rules. orders. proclama-