Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-08-15
COM MONWEALTH OF FENNSYLVANIA-DE-
IARTMENT OF HEALTH

COMMONWEALTH OF -FENNsYLvANIA-DE-
fARTMENT OF HEALTH.
Harrisburg. Pa. July %. 1907
ADDITIONAL RULES AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING THE REPORT OF CoMMCN-
| 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, IAN Act creating department of
Health and defining its powers and duties
the Department of Health Of The Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania has adopted
the following additional Rules and Reg
ulations governing the control OF Com
municable Diseases.
RESOLVED: That Section of the
Rules and Regulations as published in
| Circular No. which reads as follows:
"All physicians practicing within the
limits of the Stat: shall make an immed
late report of every case occurring in their
practice of the diseases hereinafter speci.
fed, 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 a township, to the
County Medical Inspector If 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 speci
| 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 a 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 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 p shall be made
directly to the State Department Of
Health.
RESOLVED: 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
department 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 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 or
borough has no Board of Health, Bureau
OF Health or Sanitary Committee, the re-
port of such cases shall he 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 a, The end OF each week.
RESOLN That when none of the
diseases hereinafter enumerated occurs in
a city or borough during any calendar
month, report OF this fact shall be made
by the Secretary Of the Board or Bureau
of Health or Sanitary Committee at the
end ofsuch month to the Department of
Heal at Harrisburg on the report cards
supplies for this purpose.
RESOLVED. That the quarantine
period for cases of scarlet fever shall he
80 days from the date OF onset Of the dis
ease. provided that at the end of said
period the physician in charge certities in
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, Anthrax, Bub.
onic Plague, Epidemic Cerebro Spinal
Meningitis Spotted Fever), Chickenpox
Cholera, Diphtheria, (So-called membra
nous Group, diphtheritic sroup, putrid
sore throat, should be reported as diphth,
eria) Epidemic Dysentery, Erysipelas,
German Measles, Chambers, Hydrophobia,
Leprosy, Malaria Fever, Measles, Mumps,
Pneumonia (true), Puerperal Fever, Re
lapsing Fever, Small-po Scarlet Fever.
$50 called scarlatina and scarlet rasl.
should be reported as scarlet fever,) Te
tanus, Trachoma, Trichinasis, Tubercu.
losis tspecify 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-
VANIA, JULY 25, 1907.
RESOLVED: That in the opinion of
the Advisory Board and the Commissioner
OF 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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