Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
vided for in this Chapter shall be done
under the personal supervision of the
Health Officer and at public expense.
Special Provisions Under Which Quar-
antine May be Released In Less
Than the Prescribed
Period

Than the Prescribed
Period.
Rule IL. Section /. At the termina-
| ton OF any quarantinable disease, ex-
cept Diphtieria, when there are no
further exposures thereto, upon the
premises, the quarantine may be re-
| leased even through the period pre-
scribed in Rule has not elasped. Pro-
vided, that no release from quarantine
shall be permitted until the following
| conditions have been complied with,
viz
Sec. .. Seventeen days must have
elasped after the date OF complete re-
covery or death of the last case on
the premises, to which fact the attend
ing physician must certify in writing
Sec. 3. The entire body of the pa
tient and all exposed individuals must
be bathed in / to 5000 solution BIZ
chloride of Mercury, or other approved
disinfection, and thoroughly washed
was soap and hot water. The clothing
and other personal effects must be
properly disinfected, as provided In
Rule Z, Chapter 2.
Sec 4. In cases of Smallpox atten-
| ton to the following additional require
ments is Imperative: Unvaccinated
persons who have been exposed to
Smallpox must be vaccinated at once,
and kept isolated until it is evident
that the vaccination is successful. Or
If such exposed person promptly sub
NIT to vaccination, he may at the dis
| erection of the Local Board of Health,
be permitted to go at large, provided,
that he make personal daily report
| for period Of twenty-one (2D days to
his attending physician, or the Health
Officer of the Local Board of Health
In either case, the requirements OF Sec
ton 8 of this Rule relating to disinfec-
ton, must be complied with. If the
vaccination should fail in the normal
period of time ten days. the isolation,
or observation with daily report, must
be continued until twenty-one (2D
days after the date OF exposure, when
| the person may be released; provided
that the requirements Of Section 3 of
this Rule relative to disinfection, have
been complied with. Persons who are
able to show satisfactory proof that
they have been successfully vaccinated
within three years prior to the date Of
exposure, are subject only to the re-
| quirements OF Section 3.
| Sec. >. Persons who have once been
successfully vaccinated, but not with
in period of three years next preced-
Ing the date Of exposure, must be re-
vacclnated or upon refusal, be dealt
with as unvaccinated individuals and
subject to the requirements of Sec
| ton of this Rule.
Release OF Nurses From Quarantine.
Rule II. After proper disinrection,
nurses who have been employed to
care for the sick may be released from
quarantine when their services are no
| longer required. The order for such
release must be made in writing and
signed by the Mayor or Township
Clerk In cases quarantined for Diph-
iberia, at least one culture test of
swabings taken from the nose and
throat of the nurse as provided for I'm
Section 3 of Rule IS, Chapter /, must
be required before the nurse is re-
ieased.
Quarantine Premises. Who May En-
ter or Leave.
Rule 13. No person except the at
tending physician shall be permitted
to enter or leave any premises while
/ mi
cept as specially provided for by the
regulation of the State Board Of
! Health and in strict accordance there
with.
| Infected Letters.
Rule IA. No letters or other articles
coming from quarantined premises
shall under any circumstances be
placed I'm any post office, letter box or
rural delivery. If on account of care
lessness or neglect, any such infected
| article shall have been placed In a
| postoffice, letter box or rural delivery,
all such letters or articles, together
with such other articles as have come
| in contact Herewith, shall be detained
and Immediately disinfected by the
Health Officer, without unnecessary
delay or removal from the custody of
the post master.
Second Hand Clothing. Books, and
Travelling Libraries.
Rule 10. Section ]. No person shall
publicly sell or offer to sell any second
hand clothing, books or other articles,
until the same have been properly dis
| infected.
Sec. 2 Books contained In travelling
| libraries shall be disinfected before
being shipped from one community to
another.
Sec 3. All disinfection provided for
in this Rule shall be done under the
| supervision of the Health Officer.
School Teachers.
Rule 16. School teachers boarding or
residing with family In which any
disease, subject to quarantine or pla-
| card, Is known or suspected to exist,
shall Immediately remove to premises
not so infected, and provided they
have not been actually exposed
| to Diphtheria. Scarlet Fever, or
Smallpox, may be allowed to continue
| their attendance at school. In all
cases they shall conform to the re-
quirements Of the State Board OF
Health relative to dislnfection.
superintendent of Schools.
Rule II. All persons suffering from
any disease subject to quarantine or
placard, or residing upon premises in
fected with any such disease, shall be
excluded from the public schools. The
superintendent, teacher or other Off
cial i'm charge Of any school, shall be