Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-02-18
AN IMPORTANT LAW.
Bill Relating to Treatment Of VenereaI
Diseases.

Diseases.
What was known as the McAdams
bill to require physicians to report
cases of venereal diseases under treat
ment, and to isolate persons affected
with such diseases, has passed poth
houses and has been signed by the gov
ernor.
The bill was amended by the senate
so as to forbid the divulging Of names
three or six months warning should
be recorded in the office Of the clerk
of the court, or more properly In the
office Of the probate judge.
Sections 4 and 5 Of the law are OF
very great importance, and II these
sections are honestly and faithfully en-
forced the result will be Of untold ben
eft to the present generation as we'll
as to future generations.
The text Of the law Is as follows:
Section 1. Syphilis, gonorrhea and
chancroil hereinafter designated as
venereal disease, are hereby declared
to be contagious, infectious, communi-
cable and dangerous to the public
health II shall be unlawful for any
one infected with these diseases or any
of them to expose another to infection.
Sec. 2. Any physician or other per-
son who makes diagnosis in or treats
a case of venereal disease, and any sup
erintendent or manager OF hospital,
dispensary or charitable or penal in
stitution in which there Is a case OF
yenereal disease shall make report
of such case to the health authorities
according to such form and manner as
the state board Of health shall direct;
Provided, that nothing herein contain
ed shall be so construed as to require
or allow any physician or other person
herein required to make such report
to divulge the name of the person or
persons, male or female, who may be
afflicted with such disease.
Sec. 3. State, county and municipal
health officers, or their respective Ju-
risdictions, are hereby directed and
empowered, when in their Judgment
It is necessary to protect the pubic
health. to make examination of
nersons being or suspected Of being in
fected with venereal disease to require
persons infected with venereal diseases
to report for treatment until cured or
to submit to treatment provided at
public expense, and to isolate persons
infected or reasonably suspected OF be-
ing infected with venereal disease.
Sec. 4. All persons who shall be con-
fined or imprisoned in any state, coun-
ty or city prison of this state may be
examined and treated for venereal dl-
sease by the health authorities or their
deputies. The state, county and NUM-
cipal boards of health shall have au-
thority to take over such portions OF
any state, county or city prison as may
be necessary for board OF health nos
pital wherein all persons VINO snall
have been confined or imprisoned and
who are suffering with venereal disease
at the time Of the expiring OF thelr
terms of Imprisonment shall be isolateo
and treated at public expense until
cured, or in lieu of such isolation such
pcrsons may, in the discretion OF the
board of health be required to report
for treatment to a licensed, physician
or submit to treatment provided at
public expense as provided In Section
3 of this act.
Sec. s. The state board Of health Is
hereby empowered and directed to
make such rules and regulations as
shall, in its judgment, be necessary
for the carrying out Of the purposes
of this act, including rules and regu-
lations providing for such labor on the
part of isolated persons as may be
necessary to provide in whole or IN
part for their subsistence, and to. safe
guard their general health ana such
other rules and regulations concerning
venereal diseases as 1t may from time
to time deem advisable. All such rules
and regulations so made shall be of
force and binding upon all country and
health officers and other per-
sons Affected by this act.
Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate
any of the provisions Of this act or any
lawful rule or regulation made by the
state board Of health pursuant to the
authority herein granted or pursuant
to the authority granted by any other
statute law, or shall fail or refuse to
obey any lawful order issued by any
State, county or municipal health Of
ficer pursuant to the authority grant
ed in this act or any other act or the
regulations prescribed hereunder shall
be guilty or a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall suffer such
penalty as shall be imposed by the
trial judge.
Sec. Z. That this act shall take eff
feet upon approval and all acts or parts
Of acts In conflict herewith are re-
pealed.