The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-05
Public Health.

An infectious disease is one caused
by living organism or germ
Those infectious diseases, which are
. readily transmissable from one person
to another or from man to the lower
animals, or visa versa, are contagious
diseases.
The following diseases, viz. scarlet
fever Gncluding scarletina and scarlet
rash), diphtheria including membrane
GUS croup), smallpox, epidemic cerebro-
spinal meningitis, asiatic cholera,
bubonic plague, leprosy, measles,
.whooping cough, chickenpox, mumps,
puerperal fever, typhoid fever, tubercu-
losis Gncluding consumption, and,pneu-
monia are declared by the Iowa State
Board of Health to be contagious and
infectious diseases, and dangerous to
the public health.
Whenever physician, osteopath,
parent, person having charge of a
patient or premises occupied by pa
tient, school teacher or officer of a
school, shall recognize case of any of
the above named diseases they shall at
once notify the mayor of town; or if
it is not in a town the township clerk
of the township wherein the disease
exists. The State Board of Health re-
quirers this notice to be given by tele-
phone and to be followed within twelve
hours by a written notice to the above
named officers.
Upon being notified that a contagious
or infectious disease exists within his
jurisdiction the mayor or township
clerk las the case may be) shall at once
quarantine the premises of the persons
confined therein have scarlet fever Gn-
cluding scarletina or scarlet rash),
diphtheria Gncluding membraneous
Group smallpox, epidemic cerebro-
spinal meningitis, asiatic cholera, bu.
bonic plague or leprosy. He shall take
suppress the disease and protect the
public. If the disease is measles,
chickenpox, whooping cough or mumps
the mayor OF township clerk (as the
case may be) shall not quarantine
the premises, but shall placard them
with danger card and shall prohibit
all persons living upon the premises
from attending the public schools or
public gatherings.
Where the disease is typhoid fever,
puerperal fever, tuberculosis (consump-
tion} or pneumonia they shall be
neither quarantined nor placarded, but
shall be reported to the mayor or town
ship clerk las the case may be) in the
same manner as the above named dis
eases. The houses wherein such dis
eases have been shall be disinfected
the same as for smallpox or dipbtheria
after death or recovery of those so af-
flicted.
All persons afflicted with scabies,
lice, itch or vermin shall be excluded
from public schools. The teachers and
isuperint tendent Of public schools shall
promptly report all cases Of their
character to the mayor OF other proper
authority. One family Of children af-
flicted with lice or itch can, and fre-
quently do, infect an entire school,.
This rule is designed to prevent the
filthy indolent habit Of one family from
menacing the happiness and comfort of
the entire community.
When people are quarantined it is
the duty of the mayor or township
clerk (as the case may be) to make
proper provisions for the care of the
sick and to designate certain peace
officers as sanitary police. These
sanitary police shall visit all quaran-
tined premises within their jurisdiction
at least once in every twenty-four
hours and see that quarantine is proper
ly observed and shall make daily repor,
to the mayor or township clerk (as the
case NAV be)