The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-08-27
Ordinance No. 49,

provide for the protection of the
public health; to prevent the 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 |
Board Of Trustees of the Village of |
Teton City, that:
SECTION l. A Board of Health is
hereby established to consist of the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, a
Quarantine Physician, and the Village
Marshal, if there be no physician resid- |
ing IN the village OF Teton, then 1t
suitable person shall be appointed by
the Chairman of the Board of Trustees
and all matters relating to quarantine,
sanitary regulations, and all nuisances
and other conditions affecting the public
health, and cleanliness, are hereby
declared to be under the supervision
and the village of Teton City is hereby
declared to be subject to quarantine
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,
he shall, if in the judgmentif 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
shall 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
strict quarantine of said place, or
places of abode by causing to be kept n
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 so shall be
established by the Board, until all
danger from infection therefrom shall
and household effects shall have been
disinfected under directions of the Board
of Health
SEC. B. The Board of Health may
at any time, when in its judgment the
: public good requires it, 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 property
Of any person be found in a condition
liable to engender any contagious disease
the same may at the discretion of said
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 any
person afflicted with any contagious
? disease, the premises from which he is
removed and the household thus exposed
shall be strictly qnarantined until the
2 danger of contagion shall have passed
and such measures for the publication
disinfection OF destruction of said
/ premises and property shat be taken as
in the Judgment of the Board shall he
necessary, provided, that before any
2 property real or personal shall be des-
:, troyed by order of the Board, the same
shall be appraised by three suitable, dis
t interested persons, to be selected by
, said board
SEC ). 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
2 disease, and to report same to the officer
! every case of death from any such
4 disease Immediately after it occurs.
q Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of
every house holder in the village of
Teton City to report in writing to the
f Chairman of the Board of Health the
:, name or every person living, boarding
y or lodging at his house, whom he shall
Il have reason to believe to be sick or
f affected with any contagious disease,
L immediately upon the discovery. of the
h same, and any death occurring at his
house from any such disease, unless a
i regular physician is in attendance upon
l. such person.
SEC. T. No person. except physi-
> clean attending or otherwise coming in
contact with any contagious disease, in
- such manner and to such an extent as
! to render him liable to communicate the
4 disease shall without the permission OF
the Board of Health go upon any public
l 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 to prevent theil
communicating such disease to others
o SEC, s. No person shall remove a
c patient affected with any contagious
e disease from any house or place in the
y village of Teton City, or shall remove
e any bed or bedding or any clothing
used or worn by any patient affected
t with any contagious disease to or from
any house place or premises, within the
/ said village without permission of the
$ Board of Health.
SEC o. The Board of Health shall
have power during the prevalence OF
: any contagious disease to fumigate and
: disinfect any premises which in its
{ judgment require disinfection.
SEC. 10 No person shall tear down
remove, or mutilate the colored flags SC
!. put up by the Board of Health as herein
/" provided or in any manner hinder,
n interfere with or delay said Board in the