Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-08-08
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNsYLvANIA-DE
PARTMENT OF HEALTH.


GOVERNING TIE REPORT OF COMMuN-
+ lCABE DISEASES.
In order to carry out the provisions of
the Act OF Assembly OF April twenty seven
one thousand nine hundred and five, en-
titled, An Act creating a department Of
Health and defining its powers and duties
the Department of Health of .he Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania has adopted
the following additional Rules and Reg
ulations governing the control of Conn
municable Diseases
RESOLN ED: That Section | of the
Rules and Regulations as published in
Circular No. which reads as follows:
"All physicians practicing within the
limits OF the State shall make an immed
late report Of every case occurring in their
practice of the diseases hereinafter speci
fied if occurring in city or borough to
the Secretary OF the Board of Health OF
such city or borough, and if occurring
withh the limits OF township, to the
County Medical Inspector # the county
in which sal township may be located,
and also to the Department of Health at
Harrisburg be amended to read as
follows:
All physicians practicing within the
limits OF the ; ate shall make an immed
late report OF every case occurring IN their
practice OF the diseases hereinafter spec
fed, 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 patieut may be located.
PROVIDED, that in any city or
borough not having a Board of Bureau
| OF Heath or Sanitary Committee, the re
port of such cases occurring within the
limits of said city or borough shall be
made directly to the Department OF
Health, and
PROVIDED, further that when a
vacancy shall be known to exist in the
position OF Health Officer in any township
the report of such cases occurring within
| the limits of such township shall be made
directly 10 the State Department of
! Health.
RESOLN That physicians or
others in charge of hospitals cituated in
cities or boroughs shall report cases OF
diseases hereinafter specified occurring 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 com
municable disease received from territory
outside OF cities or boroughs to the State
d. .partment Of Health at Harrisburg at
| the end OF each week.
PROVIDED, that in any city or
| borough not having a Board of Health
or Bureau OF HEALTH or Sanitary Com
mittee, the report of such cases occurring
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 OF
borough has no Board of Health, Bureau
OF Health or Sanitary Committee, the re.
port 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 boroughs
to the State Department of Health al
! Harrisburg at he end OF each week.
RESOLN ED. That when none OF the
diseases hereinafter enumerated occurs in
city or borough during any calendar
month, report of this fact shall be made
by the Secretary of the Board or Bureau
of Health OF SANITARY Committee at the
end OF such month to the Department ot
| Heal h at Harrisburg on The report cards
supplies for this purpose.
RESOLVED. That the quarantine
period for cases of scarlet fever shall be
30 days from the date OF onset Of the dis
ease. provided that at the end of said
period the physician in charge certifies in
writing that desquamation has entlely
and absolutely ceased,
The diseases referred to above and o
which report is required to be made by
| physicians and health authorities are as
follows: Actinomycosis, Anthrax, Bub
onic plague, Epidemic Cerebro Spinal
Meningitis (Spotted Fever), Chicken. pox
Cholera, Diphtheria, (So-called membra
nous Group, diphtheritic sronp, putrid
sore throat, should he reported as diphth
eria). Epidemic Dysenery, Erysipeas
German Measles, Glanders, Hydrophobia,
Leprosy, Malaria Fever, Measles. Mumps
Pneumonia (true), Puerperal Fever, Re
lapsin. Fever, Smallpox, Scarlet Fever
| (So.caled scaratna and scarlet rash
should be reported as scarlet iever,) Te
tanus, Trachoma, Trichiniasis, Tubercu
losis tspeciiy what form. Typhoid Fever
Typhus Fever, Whooping Cough and
Yellow Fever.
| RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE ADVISORY
| BOARD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
| OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
| WANNA, JULY %, 1907.
RESOLVED: That in the opinion Of
the Advisory Board and the Commissioner
OF II Health a person who has had the
operation for vaccination faithfully per
formed three times, at intervals of two
successive weeks, without success is for
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