The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-12-10

/ kCJ w neneNer yellow 1eNeFs CHOl-
era, smallpox or other epidemic or
communicable diseases appear in am
locality within the City, and informa-
ton thereof is brought to the know
ledge of said City Manager, Director
of Public Welfare or the Health Of
ficer of the City, they shall prepare
and carry into effect such rules and
regulations as, in their judgment,
will, with the least inconvenience to
commerce, travel and business pre-
vent the spread of diseases.
SECTION NO. 4. They shall Sc
lect suitable localities for establishing
quarantine stations, and may erect
necessary temporary buildings for the
disinfection of passengers, baggage,
cargoes and other meters believed to
convey the contagious principle of
cholera, yellow fever, small pox and
other epidemic diseases, and may en-
force such transhipment of passen-
gers as they may deem necessary.
SECTION NO. 5. They shall as
sign to the charge of each station
competent physician and necessary
assistants, who shall receive such
compensation as the Board of Com
missioners may deem reasonable and
just.
SECTION NO. 6. Any person who
shall willfully disregard or evade
such quarantine as the City Manager,
Director of Public Welfare or Health
Officer of the City may declare or
violate any rule or regulations they
shall make in attempting to prevent
the spread of any epidemic disease,
ch1Il no O1IIltU of cd
and, upon conviction, shall be fined
not less than $500 nor more than
$4,000.
SECTION NO. 7. Whenever any
case of smallpox, yellow fever, chol-
era, bubonic plague, typhus fever,
dlphtherla, membranous Group, scarlet
fever, or other communicable diseases
exist, or is even suspected in any
household, it shall be the duty of the
head of said household or any other
person in such household possessing
knowledge of said facts, to immedi-
ately notify the Director of Public
Welfare of the City.
SECTION NO. 8. Whenever any
physician, surgeon or practitioner of
medicine shall know or suspect that
any person or persons, whom they
have been called to visit, or who has
been brought to them for examina-
ton Cor any other suspicious infor-
nation received relative thereto) is,
or are infected, or even suspected,
with any of the aforementioned
diseases, he shall, and it shall be his
duty to Immediately notify the Di-
rector of Public Welfare or Health
Officer of the City of such fact or
facts.
1t shall be the duty of the City
Manager, Director of Public Welfare
or Health Officer of the City, without
delay, upon receiving such notice as
above provided for, to Immediately
proceed to carry out such rules and
regulations as they may deem proper
and advisable, and such rules and
regulations as the Board of Health of
the State of Tennessee may prescribe,
having for their object the prevention
and restrictions of the disease or
diseases mentioned in the foregoing
sections.
SECTION NO. 9. That it shall be
the duty of said City Manager, Di-
rector of Public Welfare or Health
Officer of the City, upon the receipt
of said notice of existing or suspect
ed disease aforesaid, to inspect or
cause the house or, locality to be in
spected by it's sanitary officers, and
on discovery such disease exists, the
Health Officer of the City, may, as he
deems best, isolate and quarantine
said diseased person or persons. He
may also quarantine any other person
or persons exposed to said disease
and restrain them within their home
or locality from intercourse with
other persons, and prohibit ingress
and egress to and from such premises
whenever it is necessary for the pre-
vention or restriction Of such diseas-
es.
SECTION NO. TO- Any person or
persons isolated or quarantined that
shall willfully escape from said isola-
ton or quarantine before they have
fully recovered or before their
clothes have been disinfected by the
authority in charge, or willfully per-
nit clothes or other articles to be
carried from the infected premises
prior to disinfection, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall |
pay a fine of not less than $500 or
more than $4,000.
SECTION NO. II. 1t shall be the |
duty of the Director of Public We'll
fare or the Health officer of the City
when a case of small pox, cholera,
bubonic plague, yellow fever, typhus
fever, diptheria, membranous Group,
or scarlet fever is reported within its |
jurisdiction, to at once cause to be |
placed in conspicuous position on
the house wherein any of the afore-
said diseases occur or exist a quaran-
tine card having printed on it in
large letters the name of the disease
within, and to prohibit entrance to or
exit from such house without written
permission from the Health Officer
of the City, and no person quaran-
tined by the Health Officer on &C
count of having contagious disease,
or for having been exposed thereto,
shall leave such quarantine house or
place without the written permission
of the Health Officer, and every ply
stefan attending a person affected
with any of the aforesaid diseases
shall use such precautionary measures
to prevent the spread of the disease,
as may be required by said Director
Of Public Welfare or Health officer
Of the City. No person shall remove
nor deface nor destroy such quaran-