Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-12-28
Reporter 40 Farmer,
Thursday. December %, 1899,
ADAMS q ARTHUR. proprietors.

Health urging the people to take all pre-
cautions against contagious diseases;
At a meeting of the South Dakota
State board of health, held November
20. 1899, the following rules and order
of vaccination were adopted, for the
restriction and prevention of smallpox in
the state of South Dakota, pursuant to
authority vested in this board by chapter
90, Session Laws of 1895:
First. All persons in this state over the
e of one year, who have not been vacciI
mated, or who in the opinion of the local
board of health of the district or iuris-
diction in which such persons reside or
arr found, do not furnish satisfactory evil
dence of protection by vaccination. The
fact OF vaccination and protection must
be entered 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
sheriff's c~onstabl.'s city m~arshals, police
officers within their respective jurisdic-
tions, are hereby directed To enforce the
foregoing order as soon as practicable
and so far as said ordershall apply to the
pupils of any public or private school or TO
the teachers thereof. The officers of the
scholldistrict in which such school is stu
ated shall also require its enforcement.
Third. Persons affected with diphtheris
(mem- branous Group measels, mumps,
scarlet fever (~scarlatina, scarlet rash)
whooping cough, or small pox, must be
excluded from the school until upnn a
certificate from the attending physician,
showing complete recovery, through dis
infection of his or her person aud cloth
ing, and the disinfectioR Of the home, the
mayor or township clrr (, as the case may
be, issued u written permit for re-admis
sion, after the quarantine rules Of this
board have been firs: complied with. All
oeher persons from families whore such
diseases exist shall also b~.excluded from
the school rntil they are furnished with
q permit as above required.
Fourth. Every school teacher who dis
covers among his or her pupils a case of
contagious disease, must immediately
report { e fact to the mayor or township
clerk, as the case may be; also To the
superinte ndent or principle of the school
and to the parents of the children, aud
must send the pupils thus afflicted to
their homes at once. Teachers mus, not
visit premises wherein are children sick
with any contagious diseases, and must
carefully avoid exposuret to such diseases.
Fifth. fla person Is ascertained to
have attended school when affected with
either of these contagious diseases, the
local board of health shall Immediately
close the room wherein such persons
attended until 1t has been properly dis
Infected.
In cas- of any outbreak OF small pox in
any community, or threatened outbreak
every child attending the schools and
every teacher must be examined r.laiive
to having been successfully v~accinated
and IL they have not be,n vsccinated
they must be excluded from the schools
until so protected. This yaccina tion
shall include the community generally
as far as possible.
1t is not the province of the state board
10 construe the statutes, or prescribe the
manner of enforcing regulations by
local boards. The state board will not
furnish virus. All matters relating {
obtaining virus and the compensation
for vaccination must be determined by
local boards.
As 30 public schools, the order of the
the state board Is p. remptory, and is an
order for the quarantine OF all schools
against children and teachers whodonc
give evidenced euecessfui VA, ION. u
the parents of ehti zen a
them raccinat,a, Tie caildit nu.t ?
excluded from G &c moot nuia ftey csp
form tn he regulations ptde recor
sbould 81 Ia1ia 81 a- den
of al chilafea b eSr.gnr
Fanisi. ln, - iaati
done 70 theif aoI.ea y ...-- ~-.>
~ t~aase. Tor q. indigept pol,
mean saon! beproriied for vaccination
NJ pnt lie expense, which will be nothing
In comparison to an outbreak of small
pox in an unprotec. d community, liabl
by tramps, and by importation in various
ways. ltis Of great importanc" that local
boards ard all persons, should secure
only pure and healthy bovine virus.
This dene, the ciia.,ees of u~nfnvorable
results are reduced to tie lowest posi-
bility.
Opposition TO this order is unwise absc-
lut-ly false ia fact, a,nd nothing le>s
than favoring the spre,d OF small pox,
n :-..Jo.sb IL ,nt,fot,,a xph ara