Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-16
QUARANTINE = slSlNFECTION.
Extract From Section Eight OF an
Act Relating To The Board OF
Health, Ratified March |,
1898.

1898.
By order of the Board of County Com
missioners we publish the following,
and the county physician states that
the law will be rigidly enforced wher-
ever necessary:
[chapter ZIG. Laws of 1907, as amended IN 1901
finland quarantine shall be under
the control of the county superintend-
ent of health, who shall see that dis
eases especially dangerous to the pub
lie health, viz, smallpox, diphther1a,
scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever
a,.d cholera, are properly quarantined
and isolated within twenty-tour hours
after the case is brought 10 his knowl-
edge, and that after the death or re-
covery or removal of person sick of
either of the diseases mentioned. the
rooms occupied and the articles used
by the patient are thoroughly disin-
tected in the manner set forth in the
printed instructions, both as to quar-
antine and disintection, which shall be
furnished nII1 by tM0 oOCIOGdIy VI Gho
State Board OF Health. The expense
of the quarantine and of the disinfec-
tion shall be borne by the householder
In whose family the case occurs, If a BILE,
otherwise by the city, town or county
of which he if q resident. Any person
neglecting or refusing to comply with
or in any way violating the rules pro-
mulgated in the manner above setforth
on the subjects 'ot'quarantine and dis
infection, shall be deemed guilty OF a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be fined or imprisoned, lat the dis
cretion of the court, not less than five
or more than fifty dollars, or less than
ten or more than thirty days. In any
city or incorporated town having a
regularly appointed medical health Of
ficer, who is a member of the county
board of health, the duties assigned in
this section to the county superintend-
ent of health shall oe performed by the
said medical health officer for the peo-
pie OF his city or town.
QUARANTINE.
L. Every person sick OF either of the
diseases men toned in the above extract
from section s of the health law must
be imm ediately isolated with a nurse
in a separate room, if there be one. All
carpets, curtains and upholstered furn-
iture should be removed. Nothing
should be taken out OF such room at
any time during or after the sickness
without having been previously disin-
fected in the manner described under
the head of disinfectien. The nurse
should wear clothing of washable ma
terial and should remain in the quar-
antined apartment. The mildness OF
the attack must not be permitted to
beget laxity in carrying out these in
structions..
2. When any Of the diseases men
ing only one room, the house and all
persons residing therein shall be quar-
antined. The same rule shall apply to
the entire house, even if of sufficient
size to permit the isolation of the sick
person and his nurse in separate
room, in cases OF smallpox cholera,
yellow fever and typhus fever; but in
the quarantine need extend only to the
room occupied by the patient and his
nurse and to the occupants thereof.
Whenever possible, persons sick OF
smallpox, typhus fever or yellow fever
should be Immediately removed to
quarters specially provided for the de-
tention and treatment Of such cases.
Particular care should be taken to
quarantine for time sufficiently long
to insure safety to others all persons
who havelbeen exposed to Infection
before the removal of the patient.
8. When house is in quarantine
no one whatever, excepting the attend
ing physician and the minister, should
be admitted. : The person doing the
outside service forka quarantined fam
lily should take orderstiverbally from a
distance and should lay down at the
entrance of the house or room any ar
ticles he may bring there. No pet dog
or cat should be allowed in the room.
4. When either of the diseases men,
toned has declared itself in house mo
work for trade purposes or private fam
lilies should be taken in by any one in
habiting the same, and all such work
as may have been taken in before the
outbreak of the disease must be disin-
footed before being sent home.
5. No person recovering from either
of these diseases, and mo person who
has nursed or been exposed to such a
nafiant shn11ld nuit the honsa hafora