The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-01-15
Will IMPOSE The PENALTY.
Public Health Authorities to Prosecute
VfoIafors oE~SJ6EFzrutfne.

Fiolators OF uarlutime-
Persons affixed with diseases dan
gerous to the public health, OF who by
contact with the same, imPeril the
health 81 others, viii be prosecuted IN
der the quarantine law Of Kansas. This
information comes directly from the
authorities having the matter of public
health IN charge, and so It behOOves
every person amenable TO quarantine
restrictions to look about lest they find
themselves IN the clutches of the law
Ignorance IS not sufficient excuse to
avoid prosecution, and If every one
should have a greater respect for others
and more conscientious self-reproof
mingled with common sense, much
sickness and possibly fatalities could
not otherwise be laid at your door
The men under obligation to enforce
the quarantine law have expressed a de-
termination to make an example OF the
first offender in this respect, and that
the public may have a full knowledge
of what IS required IN cases of danger
Gus contagious diseases, DR.. Gulick,
county health officer, thinks that the
publication again of sections Of the law
would be a help and a warning % all.
Following are some of the provisions:
Section / When any physician
shall know or have reason to believe
that any person whom he is called to
visit, or any person sick within his
knowledge without the care Of a physi-
clan, is sick with or has died of cholera,
small POx, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cpl
demiC Cerebro-spinal meningitis, or any
disease dangerous to the public health,
he shall Immediately give notice there
of to the nearest board of health or
health officer, and, If the case occurs in
his own practice, shall at once cause a
red or yellow cloth or card not less than
y inches square, with the name of the
disease written or printed thereon in
large characters, to be fastened upon
the front door or other conspicuous part
Of the building wherein the sickness
prevails; such cloth or card to be main
tained during the existance of the dis
ease, and until such time as the health
officer, or, in his absence, the attending
physician, acting by his authority and
approval, is satisfied that the premises
have been thoroughly disinfeCted and
are fit for reOccupation.
Section 2. Whenever any house
holder shall know that any of his fami-
ly is sick with or has died of small pOx,
scarlet fever, cholera, diphtheria, cpl
demic cerebrO-spinal miningitis, or any
disease dangerous to the public health,
he shall Immediately give notice thereof
to the nearest board of health or health
officer, and shall cause the house to be
Placarded as prescribed in section 1.
Section l. All persons sick with
small POx, cholera, scarlet fever, diph-
liberia, epidemic cerebro-spinal mening-
tits, OF any contagious OF infectious dis
eases dangerous to the public health,
shall be thoroughly isolated from the
public and properly quarantined.
Section 9. 1t shall be the duty OF
every physician IN attendance upon any
person afflicted with any contagious OF
infectious disease designated in this &C,
to notify the proper health officer when
said premises are ready for disinfection,
50 that the same may be properly dis
infected under the direction Of said
health officer OF some other person un-
der his authority.
Section II. Any person found guilty
Of violating any of the provisions of this
act or falling to comply with any re
qui1ements thereof shall be, upon con
victiOn, fined not less than SIS nor more
than 500 for each offense."
The state board Of health have sen
positive instructions to prosecute any
householder, person or physician failing
to report OF to fasten up the red OF
yellow card or cloth as provided by law