The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-16
published IN Hays Free Press, octo-
Der 16, 1919
ORDINANCE NO. s62

ORDINANCE NO. s6z
AN ORDINANCE designating vene-
real diseases, regulating persons
having the same, and providing
for the suppression of the same
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE
CITY OF HAYS:
Section 1. Venereal Diseases Dam
gerous to Public Health.-Syphilis,
gonococcus infection and chancroid,
hereinafter designated venereal dis
eases, are hereby recognized and de-
clared to be contagious and infectious
communicable and dangerous to the
public health.
Section 2. Venereal Diseases to be
Reported.-Hereafter, each and every
physician or other practitioner of the
healing art practicing in the City of
Hays, or any superintendent or man
ager of a hospital or dispensary, or
any other person who treats or exam
ines any person suffering from or af-
ficted with venereal disease in any
of its stages or manifestations, shall
report to the City Health Officer the
existence of such disease.
All such reports shall be made in
writing within forty-eight hours after
diagnosis, on blank forms approved
by the State Board of Health and OBJ
tainable from the City Health Officer,
and shall give the number of the case,
which number shall correspond with
the serial number of the circular of
Instructions given to the patient; the
name and address of the patient as
hereinafter required, the type and
stage of such disease; the color, the
sex, the marital state, and the occu-
patton of the person affected with the
disease, and statement as to whether
Or not the nature of the occupation
or place of employment of the person
afflicted with such disease makes him
or her menace to the health of any
other person or persons, PROVIDED,
that whenever the person making the
report will assume full responsibility
for such conduct of the person aff1ict-
ed with venereal disease as will pre-
vent the transmission of same to
others, nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to require the report
ing OF the name and address of the
person afflicted with a venereal dis
ease. In the event that the person
making the report is unwilling to as
sumo such responsibility or shall know
or suspect that a person having a
venereal disease is so conducting, or
about to conduct himself or herself
in such manner as to expose other
persons to such infection, he shall
then report the name and address of
such afflicted person, together with
such other essential facts as may be
required by the City Health Officer.
Section 3. Persons Afflicted With
Venereal Disease to be Given a Cir
cular of Information.-It shall be the
duty of each and every physician or
other practitioner of the healing art
practicing in the City of Hays, or any
other person who visits, attends, ad-
vises professionally, prescribes for or
renders medical or surgical assistance
to, or is consulted for medical advise
by any person having a venereal dis
ease, to at once give to such person a
copy of this ordinance together with
serially numbered circular of in
structions, obtainable from the City
Health Officer and approved by the
State Board of Health, entitled Gin
structions for Preventing the Trans
mission of Gonorrhea Cor Syphillis) %
and to report such fact in writing in
the report required to be made of
such cases.
Section q. Change of Physician to
be Reported to Physician First Con
sulted.-When a person applies to 2
physician or other person for treat
ment of venereal disease, it shall be
the duty of the physician Or person
seeking treatment whether such per
son has heretofore consulted with OF
been treated by any other physician
or person and if so, to ascertain the
name and address of the physician OIL
person last consulted. 1t shall be the
duty of the applicant for treatment
to furnish this information and a re
fusal to do so, Or falsely stating the
name and address of such physician
or person consulted shall be deemed
a violation of this ordinance. 1t shall
be the duty of the physician whom th'
applicant seeks and does consult o.
employ to notify the physician las
consulted or employed, of the chang'
of advisers, such notification to b.
made upon a form furnished for tina
purpose by the City Health Office
Should the physician or person pre-
viously consulted fail to receive tn
notice within ten days after the las
appearance of such venereally dis
eased person, it shall be the duty o
such physician to report to the Cit,
Health Officer the name and address
of such venereally diseased person.
Section S. Protection of Other
from Infection by Venereally Dis
eased Person.-Upon receipt of a re