Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-16
ORDINANCE NUMBER 100.

Public Health and regulating the public
health, and prescribing penalties for the
the violation thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND COUNCILMEN OF THE CITY
OF MEADE:
SECTION 1. The committee on Public
Health of the City Council, shall be and
constitute the Board of Health of the city OF
Meade. and adjacent territory within fVe
miles of its limits. Such Board shall have
authority to employ competent physician to
assist them in the performance of their duties,
which employment shall be confirmed by the
council, and il shall be the duty Of such ply
sician TO advise the Board in all matters rela-
ting to the sanitary condition of the city,
and to examine all cases of an epidemic,
infectious or contagious nature in the CITY
and adjacent territory within FIVE miles OF Its
limits, and Immediately report the same to
the Board. The compensation OF said phy-
sician shall be fixed, determined and paid by
the council of said city.
Section 2. The board of public health
shall have power, and it shall be their duty,
to make and enforce all needful rulse and
regulations not inconsistent with this ordl-
nance to prevent the introduction or spread
of epidemics, infectious and contagious dis
eases, by quarantine, and the regulation OF
intercourse and communication with infected
persons and places, by the arrest, separation
and treatment of the infected person or per-
sons who may have been exposed to any
epidemic, infectious or contagious disease,
and by abating and removing all nuisances,
which they shall deem prejudclal TO the
public health; to mark infected houses or
places; to prescribe rules for the maintenance
and construction of house drains, waste and
soil pipes and cesspools; and to make all such
other regulations as they shall deem neces-
sary for the preservation of the public health
With the approval und concurrence of the
Council, the Board of Health shall have
power to issue any order to close all schools,
churches, theatres, shows, circuses, billiard
and pool rooms and bowling alleys, or places
of public gathering within said city and with
in radius Of five miles of its limits, which
in their judgment would aid in preventing
the spread of any infectious or contagious
disease.
1t shall be the duty whenever any physi-
clan shall know or have reason 10 believe
that any person in said city of Meade, or
within a radius of FIVE miles of its limits, is
sick with or has been exposed, or become
subject to, or has died of any infectious or
contagious disease, shall Immediately give
notice thereof to the Board of Health or to
the physician thereof.
Section 3. 1t shall be the duty of each
and every citizen and resident of the city OF
Meade, and of the adjacent territory within
five miles of its limits, who has any notice of
any infectious or contagious disease, within or
near SAID city, to Immediately give notice
thereof to the physician of the Board of
Health of said city.
Section a.. Such Board of Health of said
city, or the physician thereof, having knowl-
edge of any infectious or contagious disease
within the said city. or within radius Of
five miles of its limits. shall Immediately ex-
ercise and maintain a supervision over such
case or cases during their continuance, and
said physician shall confer personally with
the physician in attendance on such case or
cases as to the management and control of
the persons inflicted with such disease or ex-
posed thereto, and said Board shall have full
power to establish quarantine against premises
containing any person inflicted with any con-
tagious or infectious disease, or any person
who has been exposed and become subject to
any contagious or infectious disease within
the limits of said city, or within the adjacent
territory within FIVE miles of its limits, and ia
prescribe rules and regulations under which
persons may enter or leave such premises
and the time during which said quarantine
shall remain effective
Section s. No person inflicted with any
infectious or contagious disease dangerous to
the public health, shall be admitted into any
public or private school in said city, or in the
adjacent territory within five miles of its
limits No parent, guardian, tutor or other
person having charge or control of any child
whose residence is infected with any conta-
gous or infectious disease, dangerous to the
public health, shall allow or permit such
child to attend any public or private school
until physician of the Board of Health has
issued to such parent, guardian, tutor or Other
person having charge or control of such child
a certificate in writing that such child may
attend any public or private school.
Section 6. No public funeral shall bt
allowed either at the house or church in sale
city, or in the adjacent territory within hvt
miles of its limits, where death occurs from
any infectious or contagious disease danger
Gus to the public health.
Section 7. Dphthertic Group, croupou
diphtheria and membranous Group, crou
other than spasmodic, putrid fever, diphthe
rite sore throat and sioughing sore throat
occurring when diphtheria is prevalent i
said city, or in the adjacent territory with
five miles of its limits, shall be include
among the diseases dangerous to the publ
health, and subject to the same precautions
rules and regulations as diphtheria, and a
persons infected with or have been expose
TO smallpox, varioloid, cholera, scarlet fever
scarlatna, scarlet rash, diphtheria, epidemi
cerebro-spinal meningitis, measels, or othe
infectious or contagious diseases dangerou
to the public health, shall be subject to tn
provisions of this ordinance and to all rule
and regulations made and published by sal
Board of Health, and every person so infec
ed or exposed shall obey the provisions c
this ordinance and the rules and regulation
made and published by said Board of Healt
of said city.
Section s. The Board of Health or il
physician, when informed that any perso
in said city, or in the adjacent territory with
in FIVE miles Of its limits, is infected with an
contagious or infectious disease, or that an
person in said city or within said adjacer