Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-21
AN ORDINANCE.

Approving and Adopting Certain Rules
and Regulations Adopted by the
Board Of Health Of the Town or
Yorkville, S. c., with Respect to Con-
tagious and Infectious Diseases.
m HE following Rules be and the
Il same are hereby adopted by the
Board Of Health Of the Town Of York
vile, S. c.
Rule l. It shall be unlawful for any
person or persons suffering from any
contagious or infectious disease to be
and appear upon the streets, highways
or public places within the corporate
limits Of the town of Yorkville, s. c.,
80 long as said person or persons are
suffering from said infectious or con-
tagious disease or so long as their
presence on the public highways,
streets or public places Of the town OF
Yorkvile may tend to the spread OF
such infectious or contagious disease.
Rule 2. 1t shall be unlawful for any
parent or guardian to allow his or her
child or ward, who is suffering from
any contagious or infectious disease,
to leave the premises on which said
child or ward resides so long as said
child or ward shall be suffering from
any contagious or infectious disease, or
to allow said child or ward to leave
said premises until written permission
is granted to such child or ward to
leave said premises by the Board or
Health of the said town.
Rule 3. AS soon as any contagious
or infectious disease breaks out in any
house or dwelling within the limits of
the town. it shall be the duty Of the
persons residing in said house or build
ing to Immediately notify the Board of
Health of the town Of the presence OF
said contagious or infectious disease.
Upon the receipt Of such information
the Board of Health shall at once place
said house or dwelling and the prem
ises attached thereto in a state OF
quarantine, and it shall be unlawful
for any person to leave said quaran-
tined premises without the written
permission cf the Board of Health, and
1t shall be likewise unlawful for any
person, other than the physician in
charge of the persons so suffering or
trained nurses employed in such cases,
to enter the premises so quarantined
without written permission from the
Board Of Health.
Rule 4. Until it shall be made to ap-
pear to the satisfaction Of the Board or
Health that there Is no longer any
danger of the spread Of said contagious
or infectious disease from the premises
or persons so quarantined, said quar-
feet, and it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons in any manner to in
terfere with said quarantine or to at
tempt to make the same ineffective.
Rule 5. Any person or persons vio-
lating any Of the foregoing provisions
of the above Rules shall be liable to
pay fine Of not less than Five $5.OO)
Dollars, nor more than Twenty five
($2500) Dollars, or be sentenced to
work on the public places of the town
of Yorkville or the county Of York for
a period Of not less than Ten QO) Days
nor more than Thirty 800 Days for
each and every offence.
Adopted by the Board Of Health in
meeting this the 21st day Of June, A.
D., 1910. r. f. MONTGOMERY,
Attest: President.
Quinn Wallace, Secretary.
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and AL
dermen, the Town Council of the
Town of Yorkville, S. c.:
Section /. That the foregoing Rules
as adopted by the Board of Health Of
the town of Yorkville, be and the same
are hereby adopted and ratified.
Witness the hand of the Mayor OF