The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
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respond with the serial number OF the
State Board of Health Circular OF In
structions given to the patent ths 'y ,PPe
sex; the marital state; and the occupation
of the person affected with the disease;
and a statement to whether or not the
nature of the occupation or place or EN-
ployment of the person afflicted with sucE
disease makes him or her menace to the
health of any other person or persons,
provided, however, that nothing In TINS
paragraph shall be construed to require
percons afflicted with u venereal disease,
aforesaid.
cd 1t shall be the duty of each and
every physician or other practitioner OF
the healing art practicing in the State
of Kansas, or any other person who visits,
attends, advises professionally. prescrioes
for or renders medical or surgical assist
ance to- or is consulted for medical ad-
vice by any person having gonorrhoea or
syphilis as aforesaid, to at once give to such
person serially numbered Circular of In
struetions furnished by the State Board OF
Health, entitled instructions for Prevent
ing the Transmission of Gonorrhoea or
Syphilis, and to report such fact in writ
ing to the State Board of Health in the
report required to be made of such cases.
RULE III.
by scientific investigation that acute
poisoning of foods is for the most part the
result of certain toxins produced by the
action of certain transmissible bacteria
upon such foods, the following named dis
ease or illness is hereby declared to be
dangerous to the public health and shall
be reported to the local health officer in
the same manner and by the same persons
as prescribed in Rule l.
Group III.
Food poisoning.
RULE ".
The following named diseases shall be
considered diseases dangerous to the pub
lie health and are declared to be notf-
fable diseases and are hereby required to
be reported by the attending physician or
local health officer in the same manner
as prescribed in Rule 1.
Group ".
Pellagra
Cancer
(a) The following named diseases are
also declared to be dangerous to the pub
lie health and are declared to be notifiable
diseases:
Arsenic poisoning
Brass poisoning
Carbon monoXide poisoning
Lead poisoning
Mercury poisoning
Natural gas poisoning
Phosphorus poisoning
Wood alcohol poisoning
Naphtha poisoning
Bisulphide of carbon poisoning
Dinitrobenzine poisoning
Cafsson disease compressed illness)
Any other disease or disability contract
ed as Il result Of the nature OF the persons
employment.
(b) Hereafter each and every physician
or other practitioner of the healing art
practicing in the State of Kansas who
treats or examines any person suffering
from or afflicted with any of these dis
eases shall Immediately report such cases
of notifiable disease in writing upon a spe-
cial blank to be furnished by the State
Board of Health, directly to the State
Regulations for the Quarantine and Isola-
ton of Infectious. Contagious or Com
municabIe Diseases, Dangerous to the
General Measures.
RULE VI
Observation-Disclosures the term quaran-
tine is used in connection with any dis
ease, it is meant that the person or per-
sons affected with such disease and their
| attendants, except the attending physician.
and all those who come in contact with
lowed to leave tile premises designated as
under quarantine, except as hereinafter
specified.
Quarantine of Persons Exposed to Dis
ease-Ali persons exposed to, but not evi,
be subject to the same rules as TO quar-
antine as If they were sick with the dis
cept as hereinafter specified.
RULE VIII.
Temporary observation-disclosures a case
of obscure illness shall occur which pre-
sents symptoms of a disease subject to
quarantine or isolation but In which suf-
f der f positive has Of the Ga
ease possible, temporary quarantine
or isolation shall be imposed, which quar-
antfne or isolation shall be in all respects
governed by the same rules and regulations
as a permanent quarantine or isolation and
remains in doubt If the disease proves
not to be of contagious or infectious
nature, the temporary quarantine or isola-
ton may terminate
Quarantine of Doubtful Cases-In all in
stances of doubtful diagnosis, as for in
stance where the physician or health Of
fcer is unable to distinguish positively
between ehiekenpox or smallpox: .,, or be-
is ruled that the public shall be given the
benefit of the doubt, and quarantine re
I II faln will nnf q
against the most serious of the diseases
suspected, shall be imposed.
RULE Y.
Diseases not requiring strict quaran-
tine-(a) In all cases of infectious, con-
! tagious or communicable diseases which
are not subject to regulations of quaran-
tine as hereinafter specified, proper pre-
cautions shall be maintained to prevent the
(b) Persons afflicted with the following
diseases shall be subject to this rule:
Actinomycosis, Anthrax; Continued fever
(both amebic and bacillary), Erysipelas,
! Favus, Chambers, Hookworm disease, Ma
Wits Wits Of newborn Infants. Pne1monia
! (acute lobar). Rabies, Tetanus and Trich-
inosis-
Pet animals to be excluded-All dogs,
cats or other pet animal owned In premises
(a) Excluded from house for all quaran-
(b) Excluded from room of sick per-
sons affected with Aetinomycosis; Anthrax,
| Erysipelas, Favus, Chambers, Rabies, Sep
| tic Sore throat or Ring Worm.
(c) If admitted to house or sick room.
given disinfectaat bath or wash under d.
rection of the health officer when disinfec-
ton of persons Is carried out. or. II not
( so disinfected the pet animal shall be killed.
| RULE XII.
Sale of Milk Prohibited-(a) The sale.
: distribution or Of milk or dairy pro-
ducts from premises where smallpox, diph-
iberia, septic sore throat. scarlet fever. cpl
: cprphrOsniDal meningitis.
demIc poliomyelitis typhoid fever or para
typhoid fever is known to exist is strictly
forbidden unless the milk is handled, milk
utensils sterilized, and stock cared for
and product transported by persons en-
tirely disassociated with the quarantined
3 or diseased family, or the house IN which
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