The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
AN ORDINANCE

That all premises where either scarlet
fever. diphtherfa or smallpox has existed,
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
snail 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-
shall be followed after an interval 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
health.
All carpets shall be burned or disinfect-
! 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 shall be burned in 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-
Inoval has been caused by order of said
board.
No person shall attend school from
premises infected with a contagious dis
proper certificate from the local board of
| health. 1t shall be the duty of the per-
! 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 oceu-
pied by other persons in the building, and
upon the top floor. when il 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 10 such room during the prev
/ alence of scarlet fever, diphtheria or
smallpox. and in no case shall the nurse
without having taken precaution by
change of clothing or otherwise against
conveying contagion.
Every room occupied by patient SUI
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-
Soiled 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
oil thOrnIIphlX
charges from the throat. nose and mouth
shall be received upon pieces of cloth. cot
ton or paper, and must be Immediately
No persln 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,
without danger of disseminating the con-
Ia gion, go abroad and associate with 9TH
ers.
All 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 contaSion
might be disseminated.
The body of any person who has died
from either diphtheria, scarlet fever or
smallpox shall be Immediately disinfected
and placed in coffin, which shall be
tightly closed. and shall not be taken 10
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
capacity shall conduct or assist in con-
Quoting public funeral in cases of death
resulting from scarlet fever. diphtheria or
smallpox. and it shall be the duty of the
undertaken in charge of the body to see
that proper disinfection is made of sucn
cases as died from scarlet fever, diphthe-
No public funeral shall be held in
dwelling in which there is case of either
diphtheria, scarlet fever or smallpox, nor
in which a death from either disease has
occurred.
All physicians or nurses or other per-
sons having been exposed to any conta-
gious or infectious disease are forbidden
10 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 it is hereby
made the duty of the said board of
To exclude from said schools any per-
son suffering with a contagious or infec-
tious disease, or liable to convey such dis
ease TO those in attendance.
Ii shall be the duty OF the teacher or
school board not to allow any pupil TO at
of the household 20 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-olly
upon certificate OF 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 sucn schools.
with instructions as 10 the remedy or
conditions df 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 or
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
PENALTY
That any person who violates. disobeyS,
omits. negiects 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-
lions or sanitary regulations of the local
board of health health officer, or VINO
omits. neglects or refuses to comply with.
or who resists any officers or orders or
special regulations of said board of health
shall. upon conviction, be fined in sum
not less than five dollars t$5cO) nor more
than one hundred dollars tSlO0.00)
This ordinance shall take effect the first
day of July. A. d. 1893.
Passed and approved this 18th day OF
June. A ID. 1899. Commissioners Joseph ,.
Rawlins and George A. Whitaker voting
aye" Commissioner Francis Armstrong
being absent.
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