The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-17


! and preservation of the public health,
| to provide for the prevention of con-
! and regulations for the Board of Health
| of the City of Walla Wala. and pro-
viding a penalty for the violation
| thereof and repeating all ordinances
and parts Of ordinances in conflict be
amended to read as follows:
| Sec s. 1t shall be the duty Of every
physician, every household, every
member or occupant Of any house,
| store, hotel, boarding house, stable, or
any building and any tenant in any
way wherein any person has diphthe-
! ria. small pox varialoid, scarlet fever,
, measles, whooring cough, chicken pox,
| cerehro spinal meaningless, typhoid fe-
yer, tuberculosis, or any other disease
| or diseases which the health officer
| shall deem to be contagious or infec-
| tious, and any eruptive diseases Of
which a physician is in doubt whether
| the same is contagious, infectious or
! not, given notice within "a hours to the
| health officer in PRISON or in writing of
| the existence of such disease, particu
larly describing the place where the
same exists.
Sec. 6. All reports made to the
health officer shall contain all infor
! nation required by the laws Of the
state of Washington, and shall be made
upon printed blanks furnished by the
city or state board Of health, and the
same shall be kept by the health officer
until the first day of the month sue
ceeding the month in which the same
was filled with him; and he shall, dur
inc the time the Same remains in his
office, make a record Of such information
shown by said reports as shall be ne
cessary to enable him to keep the
registers provided for by section 9 of
this ordinance. He shall, when re-
quircd by the city board of health,
examine into and if possible, ascer-
tain the cause Of any epidemic disease
prevailing by reason of improper sani-
tary conditions Of the city and re-
commend such measures as he may
think proper to prevent the spread of
such disease.
Sec. H. In case of death or re-
covering from smallpox or diphtheria
or scarlet-fever or typhoid-feve or
cerebro spinal meaningless, the person
in charge of the patient during his or
her illness shall see that all bedding,
bed-clothing, carpets, curtains and
garments of any description that may
have been used with the patient during
his OF her illness, are properly and
thoroughly disinfected, and that the
house has been thoroughly fumigated
before anyone who has not been eX
posed to the disease be allowed to
enter the same.
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of the
health officer, whenever any case of
smallpox. diphtheria, scarlet fever, or
any other disease which he shall deem
of such a character as to require
quarantine, to at once establish a
quarantine of the premises and all
persons exposed to contagion in &C
cordance with the laws of the state of
Washington, which quarantine shall be
maintained such time as said health
officer shall deem necessary.
Sec. IS. Every physician, midwife,
and other person who may profession
ally assist or advise at any birth.
shall, within As hours make report OF
such birth to the health officer, and
therein. enter the time and place, ward
and street, name and residence Of each
of the parents, SO far as the foregoing
facts can be ascertained.
Sec. 10. That no person from any
house where any person is sick or af-
fiicted with any of the diseases named
or provided for in section of this or
dinance, shall attend school in this
city. until the recovering or death of
said sick person, and said person must
be provided with a certificate from the
health officer, certifying to their nom
contagiousness, which statement must
be presented to the principal or teacher
of said school before said person will
be allowed to return.
Sec. %. The health officer is hereby
empowered to visit any and all public
and private schools in the city, and to