Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-08
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
Harrisburg. Pa. July 25. l!

Harrisburg, Pa, July 20, 1907.
ADDITIONAL RULES AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING THE TEPORT OF CON-
MUNICABLE DISEASES,
IN ORDER to carry out the provisions of the
l. Act of ofAssembly of April twenty-seven, one
thousand nine hundred and five entitled, "An
Act creating Department of Health and de-
fning its powers and duties, the Department
of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
has adopted the following additional Rules and
Regulations governing the control of Communic-
able Diseases.
RESOLVED; That Section of the Rules
and Regulations as published in Circular No
which reads as follows:
"All physicians practcing within the limits
of the State shall make immediate report
of every case occurring in their practice of the
diseases hereinafter specified, if occurring in
city or borough, to the Secretary of the Board
of Health of such city or borough and if
occurring within the limits of a township, to
the County Medical Inspector of the county in
which said township may he located, and also
to the Department of Health at Harrisburg"
be amended to read follows:
All physicians praeticng within the limits of
the State shall make an immediate report of
every case occurring in their practice of the
diseases hereinafter specified, if occurring in
city or borough, to the Secretary of the Board
of Health, Bureau of Health or Sanitary Com
mittee 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 borough not
having Board of Bureau of Health or Sanitary
Committee, the report of such cases occurring
within the limits of said city 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 to the State
Department OF Health.
RESOLVED: That physicians or others in
charge of hospitals situated in cities
boroughs shall report cases of diseases herein
after specified occurring in cities and boroughs
to the respective local Boards Of Bureaus of
nr nit ~ n mi mos Of nrh
or boroughs, daily, and report all snch cases
of communicable disease received from territory
outside of cities or boroughs to the State De-
partment of Health at Harrisburg at the end
of each week.
PROVIDED, that in any city or borough not
/ having aboard of Health or Bureau of Health
or Sanitary Committee, the report of such cases
occurring within the limits of said city or
borough shall be made directly to the Depart
ment of Health.
RESOLVED: That physicians or others in
charge of hospitals situate i'll the respective
townships OUTSIDE OF cities ana boroughs shall
report cases of the diseases hereinafter specified
received from cities and boroughs to the respec-
sive local health authorities of the cities and
boroughs from which the cases are taken,
daily, provided that VIII ere such city or borough
has no Board of Health Bureau of Health
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
/ boroughs 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 citp or
borough during any calendar month a report
of this fact shall be made by the Secretary
I of the Board or Bureau of Health or Sanitary
( Committee at the end of such month to the
Department of Health at Harrisburg on the
report cards supplied for this purpose.
I RESOLVED: That the quarantine period for
cases of scarlet fever shall be 80 DAYS from
/ the date of onset of the disease provided that
/ at the end of said period the physician in
! charge certiies in writing that desquamation
! has entirely and absolutely ceased.
3 diseases above a "
report is required to be made by physi clans and
health authorities follows: ActinomyCo-
| sis, Anthrax, Bubonic Plague, Epidemic Cerebro
I Spinal Meningitis (Spotted Fever, Chicken
/ pox, Cholera. Diphtheria tSo-called mem branous
/ Group, diphtheritic Group, putlid sore throat,
/ should be reported as diphthera), Epidemic Dys-
| entery, Erysipelas, German Measles, Chambers,
| Hydrophobia Leprosy, Material Fever, Measles,
/ Mumps Pneumonia ttrue) Perpetual Fever, Re
lapsng Fever Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, so
4 called scarlatina and scarlet rash should be re-
I. ported as scarlet fever) Tetanus, Trachoma,
! 1richiniasis, tuberculosis Specify what form,
| Typhoid Fever, Typhus Fever, Whooping Cough
/ and Yellow Fever.
SAMUEL G.. DIXON, Commissioner,