The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-09-03
Ordinance No. is.

HuDllc nealln, TO prevent Inc spread
Of contagious diseases; establish
quarantine regulations and to provide
for the punishment for the violation
of the provisions thereof
Be it ordained by the Chairman and
30 ard of Trustees of the Village of
TIE ton City, that:
SECTION 1. A Board of Health is
he eby established to consist of the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, n
Quarantine Physician, and the Village
Marshal, if there be no physician resid-
ing IN the village of Teton, then a
suitable person shall be appointed by
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees
and all matters relating to quarantine.
sd nitary regulations, and all nuisances
and other conditions affecting the public
health, and cleanliness. are hereby
declared to be under the supervision
and control of said Board of Health,
and the village of Teton City is hereby
d eclared to be subject to quarantine
n regulations as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. If any person shall be found
in an unhealthy condition within the
incorporate limits of the Village of
Teton City from any contagious disease,
b 9 shall, if in the judgment if said Board
Of Health it is advisable or necessary.
be required to remove forthwith to such
place as the said Board of Health may
direct, and provide; and if such person
! hall fail or neglect to comply there
with it shall be the duty of said Board
TO so remove such person, and such
removal shall be at his own expense.
If in the Judgment of said Board it shall
be deemed advisable for any person so
affecting to remain in his usual place of
abode, or elsewhere within said village
for care and treatment. it shall compel
q strict quarantine of said place, or
places of abode by causing to be kept a
yellow flag displayed conspicuously on
said premises to be provided by the
Board. And by establishing a guard at
or near the same if deemed necessary,
and by regulating or prohibiting ingress
or egress to or from said premises or
such quarantine limits 40 shall he
established by the Board, until all
danger from infection therefrom shall
have ceased and said premises. clothing
and household effects shall have been
disinfected under directions of the Board
of Health
SEC. 3. The Board Of Health may
at any time, when in its Judgment the
public good requires if, prohibits all
public meetings or assemblages of any
kind, or the keeping open of schools, or
any public funerals, and may also
prescribe the time within which any
person dying, from any contagious
disease shall be inferred and the manner
thereof.
SEC. 4. If at any time the propert,
OIL any person be found in a condition
liable to engender any contagious disease
the same may at the discretion of sa,d
Board be removed and disinfected or
destroyed, and the same may or may
not be done at the expense of the owner
thereof, at the option of the Board.
In the event of the removal Of II
person afflicted with any contagious
disease, the premises from which he is
removed and the household thus exposed
shall be strictly quarantined until the
danger of contagion shall have passed
and such measures for the publication,
disinfection or destruction of said
premises and property shall be taken as
in the judgment of the Board shall be
necessary, provided, that before any
property real or personal shall be des
troyed by order OF the Board, the same
shall be appraised by three suitable, dis
interested persons, to lie selected by
said board.
SEC. 5. Itshall be the duty of every
physician practicing in the village of
Teton City to report to the Chairman Of
the Board of Health in writing every
patient who is infected with any con
tagious disease, Immediately after he
shall be satisfied of the nature Of the
disease, and to report same to the officer
every case of death from any such
disease Immediately after it occurs.
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty of
every house holder in the village of
Teton City to report in writing to the
Chairman of the Board of Health the
name or every person living, boarding
or lodging at his house, whom he shall
have reason to believe to be sick or
affected with any contagious disease,
immediately upon the discovery of the
same, and any death occurring at his
house from any such disease, unless a
regular physician is in attendance upon
such person.
SEC. 7. No person, except Il physi-
cican attending OF otherwise coming in
contact with any contagious disease, in
such manner and to such an extent as
to render him liable to communicate the
disease shall without the permission of
the Board of Health go upon any public
street or in any way mingle with
persons not affected with the disease.
and such physician shall take such
precautionary measures of disintection
as shall be necessary 10 prevent their
communicating such disease to Others,
SEC. s.. No person shall remove a
patient affected with anv contagious
disease from any house or place in the
village of Teton City, or shall remove
any bed or bedding, or any clothing
used or worn by any patient affected
with any contagious disease to or from
any house place or premises, within the
said village without permission of the
Board of Health.
SEC. g.. The Board of Health shall
have power during the prevalence of
any contagious disease to fumigate and
disinfect any premises which in it's
judgment require d~isinfection.
SEC. 10, No person shall tear down.
remove, or mutilate the colored flags so
put up by the Board of Health as herein
provided or in any manner hinder.
interfere with or delay said Board in the
performance of its duties.
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