, 1922-04-20

oSStioH "a, SHapte lou, oeStlOH
Laws of Wyoming, 1921, is held t.
mean restriction of The infected per
son to the home or premises where
the exclusion from such home or
ing attendants and members of the
immediate family of the isolated
person.
Rule 5. The word Quarantine as
used in Section "a, Chapter l6O. SEES
sion Laws of Wyoming, 1921. is held
to mean detention of any infected per-
son in a place other than such persons
usual home or domicile.
Rule 6. The standards of enforced
treatment. isolation and quarantine
are designated for the protection OF
public health and are, therefore. ap-
pl!cable only to cases capable of
transmitting infection to others. The
criterion for determining the necessity
Of treatment or establishing isolation
or quarantine shall be as follows:
(a) In the case of syphilli, a dag
nosis of syphilis when open lesion
of skin or INCUBUS membrane. The
Wassenrman test alone is not con-
sidered a sufficient warrant for re-
garding a person as infectious or nom
infectious.
(b) In the case of gonorrhea, a
diagnosis of gonorrhea based on other
clinical findings or the demonstrated
presence of an intro-cellular or gram
negative diplococci in secretions from
the gcnito- urinary tract or of both
clinical and laboratory evidence.
(c) In the case of chancroid, a
diagnosis of chancroid with open le-
sion of skin or mucuous membrane.
Rule 7. The standards for discharge
from enforced treatment, isolation or
quarantine as non-infectious shall be
as follows:
(a) In the case of syphilis, com
plete healing of all LESSONS of skin or
mucuous membrane.
(b) In the case of gonorrhea, the
absence of discharge or other clinical
signs and the absence of gram mega
tive diplococci in secretions from the
g~enito-urinary tract on three separate
days when smears are made and cx-
amined by a laboratory approved by
the State Board of Health, or by rep
utable physician properly equipped
and trained in this procedure.
(c) In the ease of chancroid, COM
plete healing of all LESSONS of skin or
mucuOuS membrane.
Rule for Patients
Rule l. Every person who knows
or has reasonable grounds to suspect
that he or she is infected with a We
nereal disease (syphillis, gonorrhea, or
chancroid in an infectious stage) shall
forthwith place himself or herself un-
der the care and treatment of q le-
gally qualified practitioner of medi-
cine, or shall report to the county or
municipal health officer for examina-
ton to determine whether or not such
infection exists.
Rule 2. Each and every person I'M
der treatment for venereal disease
shall continue treatment until nom
infection according to standards for
the discharge of carriers fixed by
these rules and regulations. (These
standards are given under General
KG!asJ.
Rule 4. (al No person infected with
syphilis in communicable form shall
engage in the occupation of nurse,
nurse-maid, domestic servant, barber,
hair-dresser, chiropodist, manicure,
bath attendant, masseur physician,
dentist, baker, or any other occupation
in which syphilitic infection may be
transmitted to others. No person in
footed with syphilis in communicable
form or gonorrhea shall engage in any
occupation which involves intimate
contact with children.
Rules for Physicians
Rule l. All reports of cases of We.
nereal disease required by Section 2
and 3, Chapter 100, Session Laws of
1921, shall be made in writing within
f~orty-eight hours after diagnosis, on
blanks prepared by and %obtainable
from the Wyoming State Board of
Health, and all information called for
in said blank shall be furnished in
each case.
Rule 8. Whenever any legally
qualified physician is willing to as
sumo responsibility for such conduct
on the part of a venereal disease pa
tient as will not expose others to in
lection. such physician shall have the
privilege of reporting such case by