The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
Legal Notices
NOTICE
AMENDMENTS TO AN ORDI- NANCE CONCERNING INFEC-
 TIOUS DISEASES

Be It Ordained by the Board of AL
 dermen of the City of Water
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 1. REPORT BY PHYSICIAN DE. It shall be the duty of every phy- sician to report to the Department of Health the full name, age, and address of every person suffering from any one of the infectious diseases included in the list ap- pended, with the name of the dis ease, within rwerty-four hours of the time wh .n the case is first seen: Actinomycosis, Amebiasis. Anthrax, Botulism, Chancroid, Chickenpox, Cholera, (ASiatic), Conjunctivitis, Gnfectious), Diphtheria Gall forms), Dysentery (bacillary), Encephalitis (epidemic), Favus, German measles, Glanders, Gonorrhea, Hookworm (infection), Influenza (grippe), Lep- rosy, Malaria, Measles, Meningococ- ous meningitis, Mumps. Ophthalmia neonatorum, Paratyphoid fever, Plague, Pneumonia (Broncho) Pneu- monia Qooar), Poliomyelitis, Psitta- cosis, Rabies Gin humans), Rocky Mt. SD. Fever (East. Type), Scarlet fever, Smallpox, Streptococcus sore throat, Syphilis. Tetanus, Trachoma, Trichinosis, Tuberculosis (pulmon- ary), Tuberculosis (other forms), Tularemia, Typhoid fever. TyphuS fever, Undulant fever Whooping cough, Yellow fever.
 3. DEATHS FROM INFEC- TIOUS DISEASE. PHYSICIAN TO REPORT. It shall be the duty of every physician to report, forthwith, to the Department of Health, the death of any person who dies from, or while suffering with ary infec- tious disease, and to state in such report the specific name and type of such disease.
 3. KEEPER OF BOARDING OR LODGING HOUSE. PROPRIETOR or LODGING HOUSE AND HO- TELS. DUTIES OF. The proprietor or keeper of any hotel, boarding house or lodging house shall report forthwith to the local health off cer any knowledge he may have re- lating to the illness or physical con- dition of any person, in the hotel or llOu0C llluCl lllS NOlll1Ols WllO oP- pears to be affected with com municable disease, giving the name of such person; unless licensed physician is in attendance upon such person.
 4. INTERFERENCE WITH IN SPECTORS, ETC, PROHIBITED. NOTICES OF DEPARTMENT. It shall be the duty of every person having knowledge of the existence of any person afflicted with any one of the following infectious diseases: Measles, diptheria, (croup), scarlet fever, smallpox, chickenpox, epidem- ic cholera, typhus fever, rubella, (rotheln), plague, tuberculosis and Whooping cough, who he has reason to think requires the attention of the Department of Health, to at once report to the Department all facts in regard to the disease; and no person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance, inspection or examination of any building or house, or the occupants thereof, by the inspectors and officers of this Department, when any case of one of the infectious diseases above spe- cified has been reported as existing in such house or dwelling; nor shall any person interfere with or ob- struct mutilate or tear down any notices of this Department posted in or on any premises in the City of Waterbury.
 5. TUBERCULOSIS. CASE TO BE REPORTED BY WHOM. It shall be the duty of the commissioners or managers, or the principal, superin- tendent or physician of each and every public or private institution or dispensary in this city to report to the Department of Health, in writ ing, or to cause such report to be made, by some competent and proper person. the name, age, sex, occupation and latest address of every person afflicted with tuber- culosis, who is in their care and who has come under their observa- tion, within one week from such time. It shall be the duty of every person sick with this disease and Of every person in attendance upon anyone sick with this disease, and of the authorities of public and pri- vate institutions or dispensaries, to observe and enforce all the sanitary rules and regulations of the Board of Health for preventing the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis.
 6. UNDERTAKERS. D U T l E $ OF. Within twelve hours after be- ing called to take charge of a body dead of a communicable disease, the undertaken shall report the case to the local health officer and he shall prepare such body for burial in &C., cordance with the regulations of the State Department of Health.
 T. FUNERALS. REGULATION DE. Funerals of those dead of Chol- era (Asiatic), Diphtheria, Encepha- litis (epidemic), Glanders, Leprosy, Meningococcus meningitis, Para typhoid fever, Plague, Poliomyelitis, Psittacosis, Scarlet Fever Smallpox, Streptococcus sore throat, Typhoid i fever, Typhus fever, when con- ducted in or on the emises where such deceased person died shall be attended only by the members of the immediate household, the cler- gyman and the undertaken with his assistants; when held from a place other than where such person died, the health officer may, if the body has been embalmed and is perm anently enclosed to his satisfaction, permit a public funeral, provided such persons as may be carriers of the infection by reason of contact shall be forbidden to attend such funeral. Bodies dead of the diseases mentioned, if not embalmed, must be buried within twenty-four hours.
 8. SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. PROHIBITION DE. No person shall, within this city, with out permit from the Board Of Health, carry, move or cause, or permit to be carried or removed, any person sick with any infectious dis