The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-01-22
forthwith notify the county commits

fCrthw1th notify the county commits
sionars of the filing of such applica-
ticn or such petition, as the case may
be. and it shall be the duty of the
county commissioners at their next
regular meeting thereafter to examine
and consider the same. If sufficient
grounds are set forth in such applica
tion or petition. for such employment,
the county commissioners may forth
with employ a trained nurse. or
nurses, in accordance with the re-
recommendations contained in such
application or petition and shall fix
the term of such employment and the
compensation therefor, such compen-
sation may be paid in whole or in
pari by the Red Cross Seal Commits
sion of South Dakota or other organ-
i2atlon or by any city or town OF such
county and the remainder or all Of
such compensation, together with the
cost of transportation of such nurse,
or nurses. within such county. shall
be paid out of the general fund of
such county unless the commissioners
shall, by resolution. provide for pay
ment from some other fund. The
person so employed shall be known
al the County Nurse" and shall pos
sess all Of the qualifications for reg
ularly graduated and registered pro-
and when in the discharge Of her pro-
fess,onal duties she shall wear, in
addition TO her usual nurses uniform
a badge or brassard bearing tn.
words County Nurse
Section 4 The board of county
commissioners OF any county may at
any time when in their Judgment and
GiSt retion the public health and inter
ests of such county will be benefited
thereby, take the same action for the
employment of a county nurse, as
though an application or petition
therefor had been previously filed.
Section 5. The county nurse shall,
IN conformity with the rules and reg
ula.ions of the state board OF health
anu medical examiners. perform such
Professional services as the county
board Of health, OF county commits
~sioners. shall deem necessary for the
protection and preservation of the
public health and to this end the
BOARD of health or commissioners may
req tire said nurse to make a physical
examination of the eyes, ears, s
threat and teeth of any or all pupils
enrolled i'm the public schools of the
county and to forthwith report to said
board of health any cases, which in
he, opinion are cases of tuberculosis,
infantile paralysis, d%iphtheria, small
rox. scarlet fever measles, chicken
poX, or any other contagious, com.
municable or other disease disclosed
by such examination; 10 visit any pri-
patp or sectarian school which holds
itself u to the pubic. or any part
thereof, for the education of children
and make similar examinations of
pupils or inmates therein and report
confidentially to the Superintendent
OF board of health and to the parent,
guardian or legal custodian; to wish
anv person, or persons, in any hotel,
rooming house or family home, afiict-
ed with tuberculosis. or other contag-
lous or communicable disease, and To
assist and direct in nursing such per-
son, or persons, and to advise and
direct as to the proper method to pre-
vent the spread of such disease, such
visiting in family homes to be with
CONSENT of such persons or family, or
upon the written order of the superin-
tendent of county board of health TO
visit N pest house OF detention
where any person afflicted with con
tagious disease may be isolated, and
uS9iot VA uaiCN 90 W Inv piopOh N"'N
ard nursing of such person, or per
sons, to act as visiting nurse through
out the county, or any portion thereof,
and in gathering statistics or diffus-
ins information with reference to the
protection and preservation OF the
public health.
Section 6. When the county nurse
is not needed in the general work OF
the county she may be employed by
cities, towns, associations or private
individuals at such rate of compensa-
ton as the county commissioners may
fix. the same TO pc paid to the county
and placed to the credit OF the fund
from which the salary OF the county
nurse is paid.
Section z. 1t shall also be the duty
of the county nurse to make a confid-
entail duplicate written report show
ing in full the services rendered dur
ing each calendar month and to file
one with the county board of health,
On or before the fifth day of each