Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1904-01-21
INTERESTING
COMMUNICATION
FROM COUNTY HEALTH Of
FICER, DR.. GEO. q.
GRANT.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
Sd Is
Attention of Public, Physicians, Etc,
Called to the Marriage
Rules. Etc.

DIR. George II. Grant, health officer
of Wayne county, wishes to cali the
attention of the public, physicians
and persons authorized to perform
marriages to the following rules of
the state board Of health, recently
revised, and hereby promulgated for
the second time.
The health officer wishes especial
consideration of the sections REFER
ing to contagious diseases and quar-
antine:
Rule 6. Infectious Diseases.
All eases Of infections and contag
ious diseases which are listed in rule
u shall be Immediately reported on
the official blank to the health officer
having jurisdiction, by the physician,
if any be in attendance, otherwise by
the householder or attendant. The
health officer receiving said report
shall Immediately enter the same in
his infectious disease record book,
and in person, or by deputy, establish
quarantine, as directed In rule 18th.
All city and town officers shall pre-
serve the infectious disease reports
they may receive and send the same
to their county officer by the 9th of
each month for the month preceding.
Upon receipt of the said reports the
county officer shall enter them in his
record for infectious diseases, and he
shall each quarter, from said record,
fill out the infectious disease blanks
he receives from the state board, and
send said blanks to the state board
within twenty days after the end of
each quarter.
Rule z.
1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son, other than licensed physicians,
to enter or leave any house or build
ing infected with any communicable
disease listed in rule u, without first
procuring a permit from the health
officer having jurisdiction, and obey
ing absolutely his directions as to all
sanitary precautions which he or
ders.
Rule 8.
1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son who is or has been recently af-
fected with any communicable disease
listed in rule -, (omitting pulmo-
nary tuberculosis and typhoid fever),
to travel or appear upon the public
streets or highways, or to appear In
any public place or gathering, or to
travel in any public vehicle or vessel,
until a certificate is made by the at
tending physician to the health Of
ficer within whose jurisdiction the
case occurs, stating that all danger
from infection or contagion by rea-
son of such disease Is passed, and
such certificate is approved and en-
dorsed by said health officer.
Rule 9.
Whenever a health officer shall
know or suspect or be informed Of the
existence of any communicable dis
ease dangerous to the public health,
and there be no physician In atten-
dance, or should any physician while
in attendance fail or refuse to imme-
diately report such case to the health
officer, it shall be the duty of the
said health officer, or deputy, to ex-
anime such case or cases of alleged
communicable disease dangerous to
the public health, and act as required
by the rules governing such eases of
communicable diseases.
In all cases where there has been
an exposure or a suspected exposure
to smallpox of any person or per-
sons, it shall be the duty of the
health officer under whose jurisdiction
said person or persons may be tenn
porarily or permanently resid-
ing to quarantine for four
teen days or keep under observation
such person or persons as may be
exposed or suspected Of having been
exposed to smallpox and to advise
vaccination or revaccination of all
who may have been exposed.
1t shall be the imperative duty of