Imperial Valley press., 1907-11-16

health officer, under the direction and control of the Board of Supervisors, to enforce all laws, ordinances aud regula- tions relating to the causes of sickness, nuisances and sources of filth existing within said county.
 Sec. 2. Placards of the various col ors, green for diptheria. red for scarlet fever and yellow for smallpox, shall be provided by the direction of the board of supervisors, and such as may be nec- essary supplied to the various druggists in the county outside of the incorporat- ed cities. also to those in incorporated cities or towns where special health or dinauces do not exist
 Sec. q It shall be the duty AOf any and all physicians treating or having charge of any case or cases of cOntagl- ous orinfectious disease within the coun- ty of Imperial and under the jurisdiction of said Imperial county health officer to placard the house where said contag- ion or infection exists, obtaining the placards from said druggists, free of charge, and otherwise enforce a strict quarantine to the extent of minimizing the contagion or infection and report the same forthwith to the county health officer on postal cards supplied for said purposes; placards to remain on said houses from ten to thirty days, at the discretion of the health officer.
 Sec. 4. Should any physician be call ed to treat or come in contact with, or have knowledge of any case or cases of smallpox, typhus or yellow levers or leproSy within the borders of Imperial county, he shall enforce the strictest quarantine possible and communicate by the surest and quickest means (tele- phone if possible) with the county health officer, whose duty it shall be and who shall have full power in the in- terest of the community at large to re- move any such patients if such removal can be accomplished without danger to life, to pest house or other places of safety and otherwise enforce such quar- antine measures as he may deem wise and eXpedient in the interest of the general health of the community.
 Sec. 5. No person or persons, except the physician, clergyman or undertaken and those having written permit from the health officer, shall enter or depart from any house where smallpox, cholera or any other dangerous, contagious or infectious disease exists or while the corpse of any person who shall have
 
 house, or within ten days thereafter or until said building and it's contents shall have been disinfected or otherwise dis posed of to the satisfaction of the health officer.
 Sec. 6. No person shall, without a permit from the health officer carry or remove from one building or place to another. or from any railroad depot to any house or through any public street or highway, any person sick of contagl.. ous disease, nor shall any article of clothing or bedding or any other article by which the germs of disease might spread, be removed from said premises, oughly disinfected, to the satisfaction judgment of the health officer, 1t IS necessary to destroy said clothing or bedding or other article, in order to prevent the spread of said disease, then the same shall be destroyed by him or tending upon or otherwise coming in ous disease in such manner or to such extent as to render him or her liahle to contract said disease or to communicate OdiQ uloCdOC CO OIAIC1o, olIclli iiON oC AiCO any public place or assembly or mingle with other persons not affected with such infectious or contagious disease. And, if, in the judgment of the health officer it is necessary that such person so exposed be quarantined then quar- antine of such person shall be establish ed as provided in section 8, and shall be continued until the danger of communi- eating such contagious or infectious dis ease shall have passed. And it shall be unlawful for said person so quarantined to leave the quarantined premises with out the written consent of the health officer. Any person employed by the health officer and authorized i'll writing filed by the county clerk, to enforce section or section 8 of this ordinance by confning persons to their dwellings or places of abode, is hereby authorized to wear as a badge of authority badge or star bearing the words Quarantine Officer" and it shall be unlawful to re- sist or obstruct or interfere with such person in the discharge of his duties.
 Sec. T. It shall be the duty of every householder in this county to report, in writing to the health officer, immediate ly the name of every person boarding at his or her house whom he or she shall have reason to believe to be sick with scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, small poX or other dangerous, contagious or