Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-17

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he is satisfied as to the perfection of the isolation, disinfec-
ton, vaccination and immunity from the disease, and that
such persons may mingle with the public without danger of
imparting the disease to which they have been exposed.
9. During the existence of the infection from any of the
above diseases, in any house or building, if it is found by
the health officer that his instructions for the isolation of the
patient are not being strictly adhered to then he shall at
once Withdraw any perlnissions he may have given, allowing
parties occupying other parts of the same building to mingle
with the public.
10. In any case of suspected infectious or contagious dis
ease the health officer shall have the right to take what
ever steps he may deem necessary to arrive at a correct dag
nosis, but in no way interfere with the treatment TO the case.
This implies that the health officer shall quarantine all cases
which are suspected to be communicable disease until a
correct diagnosis is made.
II. The minimum period during which a case of scarlet
fever shall be deemed infectious shall be up to five days be-
You'd complete desquanaton, but in no case shall it be less
than thirty days. In diptheria the period shall be thirty days
unless an absence of the diptheria bacili is proved by a
ARCHAEOLOGICAL examination The latter method of determin.
ing the time of quarantine is much to be preferred, for it
will allow a person liberty when he is no longer dangerous to
the public and not before. Some few Threats are free from
bacilli about the end Of the second week, but very many not
until after thirty days, even where antitoxin is used. In
smallpox, the period shall be five days after all crusts shall
have fallen from the skin. The minimum period of quaran-
tine for measles shall be two weeks; whooping cough, one
week after all paroxysrnal cough has ceased, provided, how
etver, that this shall not apply to adults who are not in at
tendance upon persons afflicted with whooping cough or
measles. In case of typhoid fever the patient shall be isolat-
ed as we'll as possible, though not absolutely quarantined.
Stools must be thorough disinfected before being emptied.
There are several disinfectants which are reliable, such as
chloronated lime, 4 per cent, 40 per cent solution of formal
dehyde 4 percent, and carboic acid 5 per cent. Mix the
disinfectant freely with the stools. Cover and let stand at
least one hour before emptying: In case of tuberculosis, the
patient must be instructed how to dispose of his sputu1n and
required to sleep in a we'll ventilated room.
-. During the period of quarantine of any of these dis
eases, no person or persons whomsoever, other than the at
PENDANTS, physicians, health officers, and clergymen, shall
have ingress to the isolated rooms or premises and these
shall only enter upon taking reasonable precautions to avoid
being the cause of the spread of the disease. Gergymen
shall only enter under the direction of the health officer.
10. No person fro many house or building where smallpox
dlptheria or scarlet fever exists, shall expose himself or chr
sef in any railway car, cab or public conveyance without the
or she has a certificate from the health officer that there is
no danger of infection to others from such exposure.
ID. No person shall let or hire any house or room in a
house or other building where any of the diseases mentioned
in Sec. 1 have been, until the same have been thoroughly dis
infected and a certificate to that effect received from the
health officer. This provision shall apply to all hotels and
lodging houses.
Is. There shall be no public funeral of any person who has
died from any of these diseases and the coffin containing the
body of any person dead from the same shall not be taken in
any church OF public building, typhoid fever and tuberculosis
excepted.
16. The body of a person having died from smallpox, dip
liberia, scarlet fever, measles or whooping cough shall not be
deposited in a public morgue.
II. No person, either by himself or agent, shall sell or ex-
pose for sale milk from COWS kept upon premises where any
of these diseases exist, nor milk which has been handled by,
or has been in contact with, persons who have or who have
been exposed to any of such diseases, until such person has
received a certificate from the health officer stating that there
is 10 danger of infection to others.
IS. In all cases Of these diseases, disinfection shall be-:
directly under the supervision of the County Health Officer
and not without his authority: Burn everything of little
value. Boil in water for one hour everything that can be
boiled, the articles to be completely submerged. Wash the
floors woodwork, walls ceilings and all furniture that can
be washed, with a corrosive sublimate solution of the strength
of 10000 or carbolic acid $50. All furniture or other things
that would be injured by any of the above means must be
exposed from ten to twelve hours in a room made air-tight
by closing up seams and openings to the fumes of burning
sulphur using not less than four pounds of sulphur to each
1000 cubic feet of space, or exposed to the action of formalde-