The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-20

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the Health officer; unless the said
suspected case shall be small pox,
typhus fever, Bubonic Plague, Asiatic
Cholera, or Yellow Fever, in which
event the same shall be Immediately
reported to said Health Officer.
SECTION 3. Be it further ordained
| that where no physician is IN at
tendance, but the patient shall be
under the care of nurse, it shall be
the duty of such nurse to make the
report and give the information here
matter required, and in case there
| is no attending physician or nurse,
| it shall be the duty OF the head OF
| the household, or Of the proprietor,
or person in charge of any hotel or
lodging mouse wherein any person
may De who is injected or suspected
of infection with any of the diseases
declared communicable and danger
| Gus in Section one a. to report the
same within twenty-four ga hours
to the Health Officer, giving in each
| instance the street and number or
location of the house of patient, to-
gether with such other pertinent and
necessary information as he or she
may be able to give the Health Off
Ger.
, SECTION 4. Be it further ordained
! that it shall be unlawful within the
: limits Of the city OF Brunswick, with
out the written permission OF the
! Health Officer. to carry or remove
l h11t1 n
tient, affected with any disease de-
+, clared to be communicable and dan
gerous to the public health; nor shall
any person, by any exposure OF any
| individual SO affected, or OF the dead
| body OF such individual or of any ar
| ticIe capable OF conveying ContagIon
| or infection, from such sources Or by
| any negligent act connected with the
care ana custody Lnereof, OF by need
| less exposure OF himSelr or nelSeI,
cause or contribute to the spread OF
| disease from any such article, lndl-
vidual or dead body.
| SECTION 5. Be it further ordained
| that all persons within the city OF
| Brunswick, who are affected with
any of the following diseases to-wit:;
| Cholera (Asiatic or Epidemic), Bu-
bono Plague, Leprosy, Small Pox,
| Typhus Fever, Drills Disease), yell
| low Fever, Anthrax, Malignant Pos
| tule, or Chambers shall, IN those IN
| stances wherein the Board of Health
| shall find conditions to be such as to
I make it necessary for the preserva-.
ton of the public health, be removed
] to some suitable building or place
| in which such person or persons may
| be held in strict quarantine, and in
/ all other instances the person Or per-
! sons afflicted with said diseases shall
| be held in strict quarantine in their
own homes or other place in which he
| she or they may be residing at such
| time. In either case whether placed
| in an isolation hospital or place OF
| isolation or remaining in their own
home, no person other than the at
| tending physician or physicians, nurse
or nurses, shall enter or be admit
| ted to the building or any part thereof
during the time in which such build
| ing is being used as a place of isola-
| ton for said diseases. The Health
| officer is hereby empowered to use
| all reasonable means to enforce the
provisions OF this section, and he shall
| post in a conspicuous place on such
| building or place and at the entrance
| of the grounds thereof, a placard set
ting forth in letters not less than four
| inches high, the name of the disease
! Quarantined in such place, together
with warning to the public to keep
| out under penalty of the law. All
| persons, who at the time may be oc-
| cupying any building in which such
] disease is found or who by contact
! have become subject to infection
! therefrom, shall remain within said
| building or place or under quarantine
| until such time has elapsed whereby
| danger from infection has passed. No
such person or quarantlned snail
| leave such building without certifi-
| cate of discharge from the Health Of
| ficer, which certificate the Health Of
| ficer is required to give in every in
stance when danger from infection
| shall have passed nor shall any per-
! son send from such building any ar
| ticle or thing whatsoever that may
| convey infection until adequate dis
! infection Iof every such article or
| thing shall first have been made I'd
/ the satisfaction of the Health Off
| Ger.
| SECTION 6. Be it further ordained
! that every person in the city of Bruins
| wick suffering from any of the fol-
; lowing diseases; Diptheria Dipther-
| itic Sore Throat, Diptheritic Group,
Septic Sore Throat, Scarlet Fever,
(Scarlatina, Scarlet Rash), Cerebro
Spinal Meningitis, (Spotted Fever,
Acute Anterior Polimelitis, Qnfantile
Paralysis), Whooping Cough, Epi-
demic Influenza, Mumps, Measles,
German Measles, Chicken PoX, Ty-
phoid Fever, Para Typhoid and
1 Pneumonia, shall be isolated in
| room in the dwelling or place in which
/ c,nb norc0u shall live Or hos at the