The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
RESOLUTION.


Be It. Resolved, by the Board of
Health of the City of Keokuk, County
of Lee and State Of Iowa,
That the special regulations of the
State Board of Health adopted at a
special meeting of the Board held in
the Capitol Building at Des Moines,
Iowa, April 8, 1918. be, and the same
are hereby adopted. the said rules be-
| ing set out as follows:
Whereas, by section twenty-five
hundred seventy-five-a6a, (2575-a6a),
Supplement to the Code of 1913, syph-
Ills and gonorrhea are declared con-
tagious and infectious; and
Whereas. in recent months there
has been an alarming increase in the
number of persons in the city of Des
Moines and other cities of the state
afflicted with these diseases: and
Whereas. in order to protect the
health of the thousands of our soldier
boys now in training at Camp Dodge,
and Of the thousands that are yet to
come, and to maintain at the highest
point of efficiency and strength Of
these soldiers, and to prevent the
spread of these plaques or diseases
in Des Moines and it's vicinity and
throughout the state; it is necessary
to restrain and treat all persons so
afflicted; and
Whereas, in order to prevent the
spread of syphilis, gonorrhea and
chancroid, it is necessary that all per-
sons who have been exposed to said
diseases shall be restrained until the
time for infection has passed: and
Whereas, the State Board of Health
finds and does hereby declare that the
rapid increase of the number of per-
sons in the state of Iowa afflicted with
the diseases mentioned in the pre-
amble, to-wit: syphilis, gonorrhea, and
chancroid, is not only alarming but
has reached point of actual public
danger, and to meet the emergency
thus existing, said Board hereby
formulates the following regulations:
First: Every physician, nurse, at
tendant, hospital superintendent, drug
gist, member Of the police department
police magistrate or other person hav-
ing knowledge of known or suspect
ed case of syphilis, gonorrhea or chan
croid. must Immediately report the
same to the mayor of the city or town,
or township clerk Of the township, if
the case is not within the corporate
limits of an Incorporated town. also
to the Secretary of the State Board
of Health, such report to be in writ
ing and to contain the necessary in
formation from which the person at
flicted with any Of said diseases may
be located, and from which the neces-
sity Of restraining such persons may
be determined.
Second: 1t shall be the duty of the
chief of police, or of any peace officer
within the state of Iowa to cause all
persons arrested for being found in a
disorderly house, or for prostitution
or lewdness and all prostitutes and all
persons arrested for prostitution or
lewdness and all other persons held
under arrest who are suspected OF
having syphilis gonorrhea or chan
croid in the infectious stages, to be
examined before being released or
discharged, and if any of such per-
sons are found to be afflicted with any
of said diseases, or to have been ex-
posed to the same, to report the same
Immediately as required in rule first
hereof
Third: 1t shall be the duty of the
mayor or township clerk as the case
may be whenever person is found
in a disorderly house or is guilty of
prostitution or is suspected of having
syphilis, gonnorrhea or chancroid in
the infectious stages or is suspected
of having been exposed to any of said
diseases or where the existence of a
case of venereal disease is known.