Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-08-08
ADDITIONAL
HEALTH rules
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Department. of Health.
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Department. of Health
Harrisburg, Pa, July %, 1907.
Additional Rules and Regulations
Governing the Report of Communic-
able Diseases.
In order to carry out the provisions
of the Act of Assembly of April twen-
ty-seven, one thousand niue hundred
and five, entitled. can Act creating
Department of Health and defining
it's powers and duties,'' the Depart.
ment of Health of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania has adopted the fol-
lowing additional Rules and Regula-
tions governing the control of Com
municable Diseases.
RESOLVED: That Section of the
Rules and Regulations as published in
Circular No. l which reads as follows
"All physicians practicing within
the limits of the State shall make an
immediate report of every case occur
ring in their practise of the diseases
hereinafter specified, if occurring in a
city or borough, to the Secretary of
the Board of Health of such city or
borough, and if occurring within the
limits of township, to the County
Medical Inspector of the county in
which said township may be located,
and also to the Department of Health
at Harrisburg" be amended to read
as follows:
All physicians practising within the
limits of the State shall make an i'm
mediate report of every case occurring
in their practise of the diseases here
matter specified, if occurring in city
or borough, to the Secretary of the
Board of Health. Bureau of Health or
Sanitary Committee of such city or
borough, and if occurring within the
limits of township, to the Health
Officer in charge of the township in
which said patient may be located.
PROVIDED, that in any city or bor-
ough not having Board or Bureau of
Health or Sanitary Committee, the re-
port of such cases occurring within
the limits of said city or borough
shall be made directly to the Depart
ment OF Health, and
PROVIDED, further that when a
vacancy shall be known to exist in the
position of Health Officer in any
curing within the limits of such
township shall be made directly to the
State Department of Health.
RESOLVED That physicians or
others in charge of hospitals situated
in cities or boroughs shall report cases
of diseases hereinafter specified occur
ring in cities and boroughs to the
respective local Boards or Bureaus of
Health or Sanitary Committees of such
cities or boroughs. daily, and report
all such cases OF communicable disease
received from territory outside of
cities or boroughs to the State Depart
ment of Health at Harrisburg at the
end of each week.
PROVIDED, that in any city or
borough not having Board of Health
or Bureau of Health or Sanitary Com
mittee, the report of such cases occur
ring within the limits of said city or
borough shall be made directly to the
Department of Health.
RESOLVED That physicians or
others in charge of hospitals situate in
the respective townships outside of
cities and boroughs shall report cases
of the diseases hereinafter specified
received from cities and boroughs to
the respective local health authorities
of the cities and boroughs from which
the cases are taken, daily, provided
that where such city or borough has
no Board of Health, Bureau of Health
or Sanitary Committee, the report of
such cases shall be made directly to
the Department of Health, and shall
report all such cases received from the
townships outside of cities and bor-
oughs to the State Department of
Health at Harrisburg at the end of
each week
RESOLVED, That when none of
the diseases hereinafter enumerated
occurs in city or borough during
any calendar month, a report of this
fa Gltal 10, 4 ~.
the Board or Bureau of Health or San
itary Committee at the end of such
month TO the Department Of Health at
Harrisburg on the report cards suppl
ed for this purpose.
RESOLVED That the quarantine
period for cases of scarlet fever shall
be thirty days from the date of onset
of the disease, provided that at the end
of said period the physician in charge
certifies III writing that desquamation
has entirely and absolutely ceased.
The diseases referred to above, and
OF which report is required to be made
by physicians and health authorities
are as follows: Actinomycosis, Anth-
raX, Bubonic Plague, Epidemic Cere-
bro Spinal Meningitis(S Spotted Fever
Chicken-poX, Cholera, Diphtheria $50
Salieu meHlDIahous Group, ulpuHeTltlc
Group, putrid sore throat, should be
reported as diphtheria), Epidemic
Dysentery, Erysipelas, German Meas
les, Chambers, Hydrophobia, Leprosy,
Malarial Fever, Measles Mumps,
Pneumonia (truel. Puerperal Fever,
Relapsing Fever, Smallpox, Scarlet
Fever, (So-called scarlatina and scar
let rash should be reported as scarlet
fever, Tetanus. Trachoma, Trichin-
iasis, tuberculosis (specify what |
form, Typhoid Fever, Typhus Fever,
Whooping Cough and Yellow Fever.