Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

requirements of this rule, or other rules, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the State Board of Health to assume charge, and either with nou-humanized virus, the only exception being that, during an epidemic of smallpox. should a sufficient quantity of bovine virus not be obtainable humanised virus may be used when sanctioned by the Board of Health under whose jurisdiction said epidemic may occur. Bulb 13. Whenever a physician is called upon to attend a case of communicable disease dangerous to the public health, it shall be his duty to immediately report such case to the local Health Officer under whose jurisdiction such case inay occur, and then it shall be the duty of such Health Officer to establish quarantine immediately by placarding " the house and officially informing the householder, commanding the members thereof not to leave the premises except by permission under the sanitary directions of the Health Officer. The card used for placarding shall not be less than twelve inches square, with the nameof thedisease plainly printed thereon, and said card to be posted In a conspicuous location. The card or Hag for cholera shall be black, with the name of the disease printed in white letters. The card or flag for smallpox shall be red. and have the name of the disease printed thereon. The card or flag for diphtheria, membranous eroup, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, typhus fever and cerabro-spinai meningitis shall be yellow, with the name of the disease printed thereon. No person shall remove or cause to be removed (except as already provided) any such card or flag, and the quarantine shall not be raised until a certificate is made by the attending physician satisfactory to the Health Officer in authority that the disease has subsided and ail danger of contagion or infection by reason of such disease is passed, and that praper disinfection satisfactory to the Health Officer has been accomplished. Any person violating the quarantine or causing the removal (except as provided) or mutilation of said card or flag before a proper certificate has been placed in the hands of the Health Officer in authority, upon conviction shall be subjected to the penalties provided in section 13 of an act approved February 7.1899. In cities and towns, flags or cards shall be provided by City or Town Boards of Health, und outside the corporate limits of cities or towns, by County Boards of Health. Every physician attending a case of smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, or other communicable disease dangerous to the public health, shall use every leusonable precaution to prevent communicating the disease to others. Bulb 14. It is hereby made the duty of any person having charge of the remains of one who has died of smallpox to cause the body to be interred within twelve hours after death, and it shall be the duty of any person having charge of the remains of those who died of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox or bubonic plague to cause said remains to be immediately wrapped in a sheet saturated with a solution of bichloride of mercury in the proportion of one ounce of the bichloride of mercury to the gallon of wuter and placed in a coffin, which shall be securely closed, und the coffin not to be again opened. Bule 15. In all cases of death from cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, diptheria. membraneous croup, scarlet fever and cerabro-spinai meningitis, the funeral shall be strictly private. No public or church funerals shall be held, or any person permitted to enter the house containing the remains, excepting the undertaker and his assistants, unless by permission of the health officer.

Rulb 16. The room in which there has been a case of coutageous disease dangerous to the public health shall be immediately disinfected following the recovery of the sick or the removal of the remains, as follows, to-wit: All surfaces should be thoroughly washed with a solution of corrosive sublimate of the strength of one part in one thousand parts of water. The walls and ceiling, if plastered, should be brusned over with this solution, after which they should be whitewashed with a lime wash. Especial care must be taken to wash away all dust from window ledges and other places where it may have settled, and to thoroughly cleanse crevices and out-of-the-way places. After this application of the disinfecting solution and an interval of twenty-four hours or longer for free ventilation. the floors and woodwork should be well scrubbed with soap and hot water, and this should be followed by a second more prolonged exposure to fresh ,air admitted through open doors and windows. School books or books from a circulating library shall not be taken into or removed from any house during the prevalence of any contageous disease dangerous to the public health*, and if such books nave been in such houses during the prevalence of said diseases, they must be destroyed by such owner or library authorities or be properly disinfected before being returned to schools or put in 'circulation. Formaldehyde disinfection may be substituted for the above method of disinfection as follows: Clothing—-As here described or as below under sick room—lnto a trunk or a box having a cover, place the garments one at a time, sprinkling each one with one or two tablespoonfuls of 40 per cent, formaldehyde, mixed with an equal amount of water. Allow' the trunk orbox to remain closed for five hours, then open and hang the garments in the open air. If the formaldehyde odor persists, sprinkle the garments lightly with diluted aqua ammonia. Bed Clothes and Bed Furnishings— Sheets, piUow cases and blankets should be boiled in water for at least thirty minutes. Comforts may be treated as described for clothing, or submitted to the action of formaldehyde gas in the sick room. Straw ticks, husk and cotton mattresses, should be burned, as they are too inexpensive to trouble with. Hair mattresses and feather beds should first be subjected in the sick room to the action of formaldehyde gas and afterward sent to be steamed and renovated. Pillows should be treated us described fur mattresses and feather beds. All bed clothes, except bed linen, may also be treated in the sick room as described below.

Sick Room —Make as air tight as possible, open closet doors, drawers, and ull closed receptacles; scatter their contents about the room: susiiend clothing and bed clothes upon lines stretched across the room, or spread out on chairs or other objects; books must be opened and the leaves spread—in short, the room and its contents so disposed as to secure free access of gas to all parts as freely as possible. Now for each 1.000 cubic feet of space take eight ounces of 40 per cent, formaldehyde. mix with one pint of water, and with a small sprinkling pot having a very fine sprinkler—a child's toy sprinkling pot is satisfactory—sprinkle the disinfectant over cariiet. clothes, mattresses, stuffed furniture and sides of the room. Before sprinkling, place a damp towel over mouth and nosqrClose the room and allow it to remain so for not less than five hours, but ten if possible, then open, remove all articles to the open air and clean the room thoroughly. MARRIAGE, BIRTH AND DEATH REPORTS. Rule 16. City and Town Health Officers shall record in a record book all- births and deaths and contagious or infectious diseases named in Rule 1. and they shall, before the 15th of each month for the mouth preceding, seud to the County Health Officer the original returns of births and contagious disease, but the original certificates and records of death received shall after record in the local books, be sent direct to the State Board of Health by the fifth of each mouth for the month preceding. It shall be the duty of the County Health Officer to make a record of returns of births, contagious diseases and marriages, in a record book. All record books shall be of the form and character prescribed by the State Board of Health Rule 17. All physicians, accoucheurs and midwives in this State are hereby required to report to the Secretary of the Board of Health of the town, city or county in which they may occur (within fifteen days thereafter), ull births which may occur in their practice. Whenever a physician’s supply of the necessary blanks on which to make returns is nearly exhausted, be shall at once make a requisition for the same on the Health Officer within whose jurisdiction he may reside, iind suid Health Officer is hereby required to immediately supply the demand. Rule 18. It is ordered that each County Health Officer in this State shall, on or before the 2oth day of the month following the close of each quarter, make his quarterly returns <lf all marriages, births and diseases dangerous to the public health, to the Secretary of the State Board of Health, on blanks prescribed and furnished by the State Board of Health. Rule 19. Whenever apy birth occurs with no physician, accoucheur or midwife in attendance, then such birth shall be reported to the Town. City or County Health Officer by the householder or other person under whose observation such birth may occur. Ail such reports to be made within fifteen days. Rule 20. AH persons authorised In this State to solemnize marriages are ordered to make a report of all marriages solemnised by them to the Clerk of the Circuit Court by days after the marriage is solemnized.