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

Sis y.
Whooping Cough. tuberculosis
OF the Air Passages, Mumps.
measles, German Measles. and Chick
en- Pox shall when elected be receiv-
ed IN suitable paper receptacle, nap.
KIN or cloth and Immediately burn
eu. races and urin that have been
passed by a person suffering from
typhoid or Para Typhoid shall be re-
celVed in a non-porous vessel AL
snail be subjected to immediate dis
infection before being removed from
the room occupied by the patient.
The disposal of this disinfected excre-
ia as well as the disinfection of such
excreta shall be done in strict con-
formity with printed instructions
from the Board of Health to be fur
nlshed in each such case. All faces
passed by a patient suffering from
epidemic dysentery, Amoebic Dysen-
terry, Entero Colitis and Intestinal Tu-
berculosis shall be received in a
non-porous vessel and shall be thor
oughly disinfected before being re-
moved from the room occupied by the
patient, in such a manner as may be
directed from time to time by the
Board of Health or the city Health
Officer. Patients suffering from Ty-
phoid Fever or Para Typhoid shall at
all times be thoroughly screened
from flies. Persons suffering from
malaria in any of it's forms, (Hemor-
rage or Black Water Fever, or Den
que Fever shall be thoroughly screen
ed at all times from mosquitoes.
SECTION z. Be it further ordained
that quarantine and isolation for the
diseases declared communicable and
dangerous to the public health, shall
be governed by the following addi-
tional regulations where not fully pro-
vided for in any given instance:
l. Milk men must empty milk de-
livered to infected premises into COW
cred containers placed outside the
door of such premises. They must
not enter quarantined premises nor
remove milk bottles therefrom until
the house or apartment has been dis
infected and the bottles have been
sterilized. All milk bottles or other
containers for milk which are in a
house at the time Of it's quarantine
shall not be taken from such house
until the termination of quarantine
and until such bottles or containers
have been thoroughly sterilized.
2. Grocery men and hucksters or
other persons delivering merchandise
are forbidden to enter premises quar-
antined or to remove anything what
soever from such premises.
8. Laundrymen are forbidden to
enter quarantined premises, or to re-
move any clothing therefrom until
each article has first been boiled
or otherwise sterilized.
4. No person shall remove any
thing from quarantined house or
building except by permission of the
Health Officer.
5. No dog, cat or other household
domestic animal shall be permit
ted to enter a room in which a pa
tient is isolated.
6. Representatives Of the Health
Department shall visit quarantined
PREMISES lIOH llluc " lllHe, DIS ildy
be necessary to observe the efficiency
of quarantine and isolation, and for
such purposes shall have the right of
entry at any time. When it shall
be found that the regulations govern
ing quarantine and isolation cannot
be followed, or are not for any reason
being followed, then the Health Off
Ger shall, when such is found neces
sary in the interest of public health,
and when directed to do so by the
Board of Health, remove the affected
person to some suitable place of quar-
antine or isolation, and shall take
such other steps as are necessary in
each case for the protection of pub
lie health.
z. 1t shall be the duty Of the at
tending physician to instruct those
living in the same Aouse as the pa
tient, as to the requirements of these
regulations and as to the meaning
of quarantine and isolation.
8. The Board of Health shall is
sue to each family in quarantine
circular explaining in simple Ian
guage the nature of the disease and
setting forth the rules of quarantine
and the rules to be observed in the
care of these cases
g. The period of quarantine or iso-
lation shall be reckoned from the
date on which the case is reported to
the Health officer, or from the day
on which the first symptoms appear
ed, when the attending physician
shall certify to this fact in writing
to the Health officer.
10. 1t shall be the duty of every
physician or householder, in case
there shall be no physician, to notify
in writing the Health Officer of the
termination by recovery or otherwise
of every case occurring in his prac-
tice, or in the household. of every
disease declared in these regulations
to be communicable and dangerous
to the public health.
II. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person to destroy, deface, remove or
obstruct any placard or other notice