The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-09-21
RULES ADOPTED
|. BY HEALTH BOARD
AT A SPECIAL MEETING or BOARD
A NUMBER OF NEW RULES
WERE ADOPTED I'M REGARD TO
CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
or SCARLET FEVER CASES.

/ AT special meeting of the board OF
health held Sept. 10, 1911, the following
rules and regulations for the control
and management of cases of scarlet
fever were unanimously adopted.
Regulations for the Control and Man
asement Of Cases Of Scarlet Fever
in the city of Fargo.
]. Report OF Cases
/ ID Every physician who attends
any person In the city of Fargo hav-
ing scarlet fever, (scarletina, scarlet
rash), shall report the same within
twenty four hours from the time he
first saw the case. to the health officer.
He shall make separate reports for
each additional case which may fol-
low in the same family or in the same
dwelling place.
CD Hotel and boarding house keep
ers, managers Of public or private
| institutions, and teachers in public
and private schools shall report such
| cases coming under their observation
to the health officer
H. Quarantine
ID The health officer shall, upon
receiving notice Of the existence OF
such disease, investigate the same i'm
mediately, and shall take such meas
ures as he sees fit to prevent the
spreading Of said disease.
CD He shall remove, or cause to be
removed, any patients affected with
scarlet fever, (scarletina, scarlet rash)
to the city quarantine hospital, or shall
establish, or cause to be established
proper quarantine at the dwelling
place of the person or persons so af-
fected.
CD In such cases as he deems from
personal investigation that proper
quarantine is not possible, as in over
crowded districts. tenement houses,
ETC., he shall have the power to cause
such patients to be removed to the
city quarantine hospital.
(4) He shall also have the power
to cause persons affected with scar
let fever, (scarleti9a, scarlet rash), to
be removed to the city quarantine
hospital for any violation of the quar-
antine rules OF the board of health
by any person or persons living in
the same dwelling place as the pa
tient.
CD The expenses for such hospital
care shall be borne by the patient If
the patient is able to pay them, other
wise they shall be paid by the city
of Fargo, in accordance with section
20 Of the revised ordinances of the city
of Fargo
(6) The minimum period of quar-
antine for cases Of scarlet fever shall
be thirty days, and this period shall
be reckoned from the date on which
the case is reported to the health
officer by the attending physician,
with such additional time as may be
necessary for the complete recovery
of the case. No case under any cir
cumstances shall be released from
quarantine until the. attending ply
stefan has certified In writing to the
health officer that desquamation has
entirely and absolutely ceased, and
that nasal irritation and ear discharg-
es have healed. Upon receipt of such
certificate from the attending physi-
clan, the health officer shall terminate
the quarantine and shall cause the
premises to be fumigated, and the pa
tient and attendants to be disinfected
in such manner as provided by the
board of health.
Cd School children will be given
certificates by the health officer rec
ommending readmission to school If
teen days after the conclusion of quar-
antine.
CD No child or other person re-
siding in the same premises with any
person suffering from scarlet fever. |
shall be permitted to attend any pub
lie, private, parochial or other school. |
and teachers of public schools and
principals. superintendents or other
persons in charge Of such schools are
hereby required to exclude any and
all such children from said schools |
until the expiration of the quarantine |
period for the last person in the said |
premises SO affected, provided the per-
son or persons so affected, has or have
been properly isolated during the |
quarantine period. otherwise such ex-
clusion shall continue for a period of |
ten days following the removal Of |
quarantine of the person last affected. !
CD Any child not affected with |
scarlet fever, but who lis residing In /
the premises where an outbreak Of the
said disease takes place at the time
of such outbreak, may be allowed after
taking disinfecting bath, and putting |
on disinfected clothing, to remove I
therefrom and take up his or her resi- /
clusively by adults. and may ten DAYS |
from and after such removal, be given |
a certificate by the health officer.
recommending readmission into any Of |
the said schools.
(10) The health officer shall. after |
personal investigation of the premises
wherein a case or cases of scarlet few |
er exist, issue written permit to |
householders and wage earners to en-
ter and leave the premises during the |
period of quarantine, providing that |
he finds that such a modification of /
quarantine Is not endangering the pub |
lie health. Neither this nor any other
modification Of quarantine will be per-
mitted except with the written con-
sent of the health officer.
Section 26-Revised ordinances of |
the city Of Fargo. Penalty for dis |
obeying quarantine rules:
Any person whomsoever who shall |
violate any clause, provision or re-
quirement. duty or regulation of this
chapter, or of any rules or regulations
of the said health OFFICER, physician or
person in charge Of any quarantine, or
who shall fail or neglect to comply
with any such rules, provisions, re-
quirements, duty or orders, or who
shall interfere with, or In any manner
resist, any officer or agent of the city
in the discharge of his duty as herein
contemplated or who shall commit any
breach Of the peace, or be guilty of
any act, or thing calculated to defeat
or interrupt the carrying into effect
any part Of this chapter, or any regu-
laffon or the board Of health shall ~,