Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A8 - General measures for control of reportable diseases

Current through July 10, 2024
The local director of health, in instituting measures for the
				control of reportable diseases:
Investigation
(a) shall make, or cause to be made, such
			 investigations as he may deem necessary and shall secure all such data as may
			 assist him in establishing adequate control measures;
Isolation and orders
(b) shall establish and maintain quarantine,
			 isolation or such other measures for control as are required by statute, the
			 public health code or special instructions of the state department of health,
			 and, when possible, shall issue his instructions and orders in writing or on
			 printed forms;
Removal
(c) shall have the authority to set up proper
			 isolation or quarantine of an affected person or persons, carrier or contact,
			 when, in his opinion or in the opinion of the state commissioner of health,
			 this is not or cannot be effectively maintained on the premises occupied by
			 such person or persons by methods designated in this part; to remove or require
			 the removal of such person or persons to a hospital or other proper place
			 designated by him; or to employ such guards or officers as may be necessary to
			 maintain effective isolation or quarantine;
Instruction
(d) shall provide, by himself or his
			 authorized agent, for the specific instruction of cases, contacts, their
			 attendants and all other persons affected, in the proper methods for the
			 prevention of the spread of the disease and shall supply such information and
			 literature as may be required by law or by the instructions of the state
			 department of health;
Enforcement
(e) shall make, at intervals during the
			 period of communicability, inquiry or investigation to satisfy himself that the
			 measures instituted by him for the protection of others are being properly
			 observed;
Laboratory tests
(f) shall, when the control or release of a
			 case, contact or carrier of a reportable disease is dependent upon laboratory
			 findings, require the specimens upon which such findings are based to be
			 examined by the laboratory division of the state department of health or by a
			 laboratory specifically approved for that purpose by the state department of
			 health and shall, by himself or his authorized agent, secure and submit release
			 cultures or specimens for examination; in cases of enteric diseases all release
			 specimens shall be taken at least one week after specific therapy has been
			 discontinued;
Schools-Isolation
(g) shall, in the event of an outbreak of a
			 communicable disease in any public, private, parochial or church school, make a
			 prompt and thorough investigation; control such an outbreak by individual
			 examination of pupils, teachers and other persons associated with the outbreak;
			 employ such other means as he deems necessary to determine the source of
			 infection or to provide for the segregation of infected persons; in the event
			 of an outbreak of a communicable disease in any school, require school
			 physicians and school nurses to conform to the orders, regulations and
			 restrictions issued by him;
Schools-Readmission
(h) shall, in the case of any school child
			 who has been excluded from school for having been a case, contact or carrier of
			 a communicable disease, by himself or his authorized agent, issue a permit for
			 such child to re-enter school when in his opinion such child is no longer
			 infectious;
Unusual disease
(i) shall, when an unusual or rare disease
			 occurs in any part of the state or when any disease becomes so prevalent as to
			 endanger the state as a whole, contact the state department of health for
			 assistance, and shall cooperate with the representatives of the state
			 department of health acting under the direction of the state commissioner of
			 health;
Other measures
(j) shall introduce such other measures as he
			 may deem advisable.