, 1922-04-25
Promulgated by the State
Board Of Health of Wyo-
ming. June 8, 1921.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR
CONTROL OF VENEREAL
DISEASES

following rules and regulations
were established by the Wyoming
State Board of Health, at their an
nual meeting held at Cheyenne,
Wyoming, June s, 1921 They sup
eHede all previous rules and regula-
tons and have the force and effect
of law.
GENERAL RULES, DEFINI-
TONS AND STANDARDS
Rule /. Any person reported by
n legally qualified physician as re-
fusing or diseontinuing treatment
before becoming non-infectious and
who refuses OF fails 20 return for
treatment after notice from the
health officers having jurisdiction
shall be considered a proper subject
for examination in accordance with
the provisions of Section "a, Chap
ter 100, Session Laws of Wyoming,
1921.
Rule 8. No health officer. physi-
cian or other person shall issue a
certificate of freedom from a veneer
cal disease in such a form tina. 1t
may be used for purpogc7 of solci-
tation.
Rule 4. The word isolate" as
used in Section "a, Chapter 100,
Session LAWS of Wyoming, 1921, is
held to mean restriction of the in
fected person to the home or prem
Uses where such person is usually
domiciled and the exclusion from
such home or premises of all per-
sons except nursing attendants and
members of the immediate family
of the isolated person /.
Rule S. The word Quarantine
as used in Section "a, Chapter $50,
Session Laws of WyominS, 1921, is
held to mean detention OF any in
fected person in a place other than
such persons usual home or DOM
icile.
Rule 6. The standards of enforc-
ed treatment, isolation md quar-
antine are designated for the protec-
ton of public health and are, there
fore, applicable only to cases cap
able of transmitting infection to
others. The criterion for determin-
ing the necessity of treatment or es-
tablishing isolation or quarantine
shall be as follows:
(a) In the case of syphili, a dag
nosis of syphilis when open lesion
of skin or mucuous membrane The
Wassenman test alone is not consid-
cred a sufficient warrant for re-
gsrding 4 person as infectious or
non-infectious.
(b) In the case of g~onorrhea, a
diagnosis of g~onorrhea based on
other clinical findings or the dem
onstrated presence of an ~intro-cel-
lular or gram negative diplococci in
secretions from the genito-urinary
tract or of both clinical and labora-
tory evidence.
(c) In the case of chancroid, a
diagnosis of chancroid with open le-
sion of skin or mucuous membrane.
Rule z. The standards for dis
charge from enforced treatment,
isolation or quarantine as non-in-
fectious shall be as follows:
(a) In the case of syphilis, COM
plete healing of al LESSONS of skin
or mucuous membrane.
(b) In the Ease Of gonorrhea,
the absence of discharge or other
clinical signs and the absence of
gram negative diplococci in secre-
tions from the genito urinary tract
on three separate days when smears
are made and examined by a labora-
tory approved by the State Board
of Health, or by reputable physician
properly equipped and trained in
this procedure.
(c) In the ease Of chancroid
complete healing Of all LESSONS OF
skin or mucuous membrane.
RULES FOR PATIENTS.
Rule /. Every person who
Knows or has reasonable grounds
to suspect that he or she is infected
with a v~enereal disease (syphilis,
gonorrhea, or chancroid in an infec-
fictitious stage) shall forthwith place
himself or herself under the care
and treatment of n legally qualified
practitioner of medicine, Of shall re.
BORT to the county or municipal
health officer for examination to
determine whether or not such in
lection exists
Rule q. Each and every person
under treatment for venereal dis
ease shall continue treatment until
non-infection according to standards
for the discharge of carriers fixed
by these rules and regulations.
(These standards are given under
General Rules.f
Rule a. (a) No person infected
with syphilis in communicable form
shall engage in the occupation OF
nurse, nurse-maid, domestic servant
barber, hair-dresser, chiropodistr
manicure, bath attendant, masseur
physician, dentist, baker OF any
other occupation in which syphilitic
infection may be transmitted to
others. No person infected with
syphilis in communicable form or
gonorrhea shall engage in any occu-
patton which involves intimate con-
tact with children.
RULES FOR PHYSICIANS.
Rule /. All reports of cases Of
~venereal disease required by Sec
ton 2 and 8, Chapter $50, Session
Laws of 1921, shall be made in writ
ing within forty-eight hours after
diagnosis, on blanks prepared by
and obtainable from the Wyoming
State Board of Health, and all in
formation called for in said blank
shall be furnished in each case.
Rule 3. Whenever any legally
qualified physician is willing to as
s1me resuonsibility for such conduct