Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-07

dency to become epidemic, the
public and private schools must
be closed, and, in extreme cases,
church services suspended and
public assemblages of people at
shows, circuses, theaters, fairs
or other gatherings prohibited.
In case of smallpox, a general
and thorough vaccination should
be recommended and insisted
upon.
SEC. 4. All persons sick with
smallpox, cholera, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, epidemic cerebro-
spinal meningitis or any conta-
gious or infectioun diseases dam
gerous to the public health shall
be thoroughly isolated from the
public and quarantined.
SEC. 5. Members of any house
hold in which cholera, smallpox,
diphtheria. scarlet fever, epidem-
ic cerebro-spinal meningitis,
measles or other infectious or
contagious diseases exist shall be
required to abstain from attend
ing places of public amusement,
worship, and from visiting other
private houses. No person re-
covering from such diseases shall
be permitted to appear on the
public streets or highways or in
any public places until after dam
ger from contagion is passed and
the premises thoroughly disin-
fected.
Sec. 6. No person afflicted
with auy infectious or contagious
disease dangerous to the public
health shall be admitted into any
public or private school. No
parent, guardian, tutor, or other
person having charge or control
of children whose residence is
infected with smallpox, cholera,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, cpl
demic cerebro-spinal meningitis,
or other infectious or contagious
disease dangerous to the public
health shall allow or permit them
to attend any public or private
school during the continuance of
suuh infection, or until the prem
Uses have been thoroughly disin-
fected and all danger from con-
tagion has passed.
SEC. 7. No public funer al shall
be allowed, either at the home or
church, where death occurs from
smallpox, cholera, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, epidemic cerebro-
spinal meningitis, or other infec-
tious or contagious disease dan
gerous to the public health.
SEC. s. Diphtheric Group,
croupous diphtheria, membran-
Gus Group, Group other than spas
modic, putrid fever, diphtheritic
sore throat, and sloughing sore
throat, occurring in communities
where diphtheria is prevalent,
shall be included among the dis
eases dangerous to the public
health, and subject to the same
precautions as diphtheria. In
like manner, patients suffering
from or exposed to scarlatina or
scarlet rash or varaloid shall be
required to undergo the precau-
tons prescribed for scarlet fever
and smallpox, respectively.
SEC. 9. 1t shall be the duty of
every physician in attendance
upon any person afflicted with
any contagious or infectious dis
eases designated in this act to
notify the proper health officer
when said premises are ready for
disinfection, so that the same may
be properly disinfected under
the direction of said heath officer
or some other person under his
authority.
Sec. 10. Whenever cholera,
smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet few
err, epidemic cerebro-spinal men
nights or other infections or con-
tagious diseases show tendency
to become epidemic, and the To-
cal authorities neglect to proper
ly isolate and quarantine such
diseases, the state board of health
or its executive officer may quar-
antine any city, township or coun-
ty in which any of these diseases
may show a tendency to become
epidemic.
SEC. II. Any person found
guilty of violating any of the pro-
visions of this act, or failing to
comply with any requirements
thereof, shall be fined not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars for each
offense.
SEC. II. This act shall take
effect and be in force from and
after its publication in the official