The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-11-28
RIGID RULES OF HEALTH BOARD.
People Afflicted With TuberCu-
losls Must Stay out of School
or In Public places.


police office to inspect and enforce
guarantees.
No second hand clothing or articles
Of any kind can be sold without first
being fumigated.
Physicians attending infectious or
contagious cases must wear robes
which must be removed and fumigated
on leaving the premises.
Children with itch or lice must be ex-
cluded from the public schools, teach
erst to be held responsible.
No person afflicted with tuberculosis
will be allowed in any school or public
place or market place, restaurant, hotel,
theater, church or like as employee.
No person shall be allowed to spit in
public place, inside the state of Iowa.
The long looked for rules by the state
board of health have been printed and
made public for the first time by
Secretary Thomas of the board. The
rules are given in brief above and are
the most drastic and far reaching that
any state board of health in Iowa. has
yet adopted, and the board declares
that it will see that they are enforced.
A meeting of the board with the health
officers of the entire state of Iowa will
be held in Des Moines and the board
will conduct school of instruction in
| the new rules.
One of the most drastic rules is that
in regard to tuberculosis. The board
decided that no person afflicted with
| tuberculosis can be allowed to work
in public place or places frequented
by the public. The board promulgates
a state wide anti-spitting ordinance,
prohibits the employment of persons
afflicted with tuberculosis about
schools, confectionery, bakery, dairy,
meat market, hotel, restaurant, railway
train or dining car, theater, library,
church, department store or other pub
lie place where numbers of persons
habitually congregate."
Teachers and principals of schools
are held by the board personally liable
or responsible for the presence in the
school of any pupil afflicted with scab-
les or itch, or vermin and the children
must be excluded from the school. 1t
is made the duty of the mayor or town
ship clerk to appoint sanitary police
officer who shall visit all quarantined
premises at least once every "a hours
to see that the quarantine is observed
and report daily to the mayor.
The head of the family heretofore al
lowed to go in and out when there was
case of diphtheria is hereafter not to
be allowed that liberty, i'll the case of
any disease where quarantine is en-
forced.
All releases from quarantine must be
under the supervision of the health
officer who is hereafter burdened with
the duty of seeing to it that all flies,
rats and mice about the premises are
killed and that all dogs and cats and
| pet animals of any kind are thoroughly
washed and fumigated.
Hereafter the physician must pay
closer attention and have more respect
for guarantees and the physician who
dares to violate the rules or the state
board of health is liable to have his
certificate revoked. In the first place
physicians are not to be allowed to
visit patient who has diphtheria OF
smallpox and from there go straight to
the person who has mild case of
nervous collapse. A strict rule of the
is that physicians on visiting patients
afflicted with any contagious or infec.
tious disease must on entering the
premises wear robe that will entirely
cover all the clothing. On leaving the
premises this must be fumigated and
thoroughly disinfected before visiting
the next patient and the physician is
furthermore required on leaving the
premises to wash his face and hands
with disinfecting solution.
War on germs from one end of the
state to the other is declared in the
new rules of the state board and even
Uncle Sans domains are invaded and &
rule of the board provides that nc
letter from quarantined premises can be
removed and if by chance it is removed
and gets to the postofice the health
officer must fumigate it and all articles
|; that it comes in contact with. Further
more, railroad companies under the new
rules will have to reconstruct The
sanitary appointments of their passen
, ger cars and desist from scatterin.
germs of disease through the country.
The state law gives the state boart
, of health practically unlimited author
ity and power to make and enforc
!, rules affecting and protecting the healtl
of the people of the state.
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