Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

RULES AND REGULATIONS Foil Ti m COVKIIN.MK.NT OF Ton, City pt County Boar is of Mt! ADOPTED isy the INDIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH JANUARY 28TH, 1892, SCHOOLS. Rule L No person affected witli any contagious or infectious disease shall be admitted into any public or private school. Rule 1. No person shall lie admitted into any public or private school, from any house or building infected with any contagions or infectious disease, or who may recently have been afflicted with small-pox, scarlet fever, cholera, whooping cough, diphtheria, membraneous croupe, measles,or other contagious or infectious disease until first presenting a certilicate signed by a reputable physician that all danger ofcommunicating such disease is passed, and said certilicate is indorsed by tlie health offl cpr in whose jurisdiction the person may reside. Rule 3. Town, City and County Boards of Health, shall exercise especial supervision over the location, drainage, water supply, hooting, ventilation, plumbing and disposal of excreta, of schools and school houses within their respective jurisdictions, and where any hygienic faults are found, it shail be their duty, upon complaint of said health officers, to notify immediately the proper authorities and cause the same to be corrected. g 77

DISEASES DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH. ■ Bulk 4. Whenever any householder shall know or suspect that any person within his or her own family, or who may lie temporarily residing witli him or her, is sick witli small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, lie shall immediately give notice to the health officer within whose jurisdiction he may reside. Rule 5. Whenever any physician shall know or suspect that any person whom lie is called to visit lias small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, cholera or any other disease dangerous to public health, such physiclau shall give notice immediately together with the locality and a full description of the case to the local Board of Health, witli in whose jurisdiction the disease or diseases may occur. Rule 6. No parent or guardian or other person having charge or control of any child or children, shall allow or permit any such child or children to go from any house or building infected witli small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, cholera or other contageous or Infectious diseases, to attend church or public meeting, or place of amusement or to travel in any street car, or any public vehicle, or to appear on any public street or highway. Rule 7. No person shall be permitted to go from any house or. building infected with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, cholera or other contagious or infectious diseases, dangerous to pub-lic-health, to attend any church, public meeting or place of amusement or travel in any street car, or public vehicle, or to appear on any pub*ic street or highway without making a complete change of clothing, and then lie must have a permit from the local Board of Health, Rule 8. No pefsonjwho Is or has been affected with with any contagious or iu£eetioii.s di.sease dangerous to the public health, shall he permltted to appear; upon the public streets or highways, or in any public place, or public conveyance, until a certificate is made by the attending physician to the local health officer In -jvlinii,e.„umiidic.tloji-the . ease occurs that all danger from [contagion by reason, of such disease is passed, and such certificate is endorsed by said health officer Ri i.K'.'i. In case of tin- alleged presence (if any contagious or. infectious disease dangerous to the public health, where the local health officer is not satisfied of tlie existence of such, it shall be iris duty to visit and examine in tlie pVeSmkVof tlie attending physician, such case orvii4cs of contagious or infectious diseases and d<‘f according to rules governing his office. SMALI^rqX. Rule 10. No person will lie allowed to leave small-pox, unless lie lias heretofore had the disease, and then he must make a complete change of clothing and have a permit and instructions from the tooal health officer.

Ri i.f, 11. In all cases where an exposure to small-pox is threatened, It shall be the yinty of the Board of Health, within whose jurisdiction such exposure shall have occurred, or danger of such epidemic ensuing, to compel a vaccination, or revacelnation of all exposed persons. All vaectnations must be made with non-lmmanized virus. The only exception to this rule that Is recognized by this Board, is in the event that small-pox is prevalent In epidemic form and the health officer should certify to the impossibility of obtaining such virus in sufficient quantity and also as to the purity of the humanized virus to be used iu lieu of the bovine virus. * — CARDS AND FLAGS. Rri.K 12. Upon notice being given of cases of small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, ‘cholera or auy other contagious or infectious disease. the county-health officer shall cause the attending physician, when such cases are outside the corporate limits of any town or eity, where there Is no organized Board, of Health, to see that proper cards or flags of warning, not less than twelve inches square, are fastened to the front door, or other conspicuous place of the building where such sickness prevails; and when tlie above na med diseases occur within the limits of any town or city which lias an organized Board of Health, it shall be the duty of the local health officer to cause the said cards or flags of warning to be properly placed. The card or flag for small-pox shall be red. and shall have printed tlmrebn small-pox; for scarlet fever, measles and diphtheria, it shall he yellow and have scarlet fever, measles or diphtheria printed thereon in large letters; for cholera a .black card or flag with cholera printed thereon ill white letters, shall be usedrNo i>erson shall remove or cause to lie remov ed any such card "or flag, until a certificate is made by the attending physician to the health | officer iu authority, that the disease has subsid- ‘ edaud all danger from contagion by reason of 1 ! such disease is passed, aud that the proper disi Infection has beyn accomplished. (See rule 14.) Auy person causing tin' removal of said cards or flags, before said physician's eertiticate is placed in the possession of the Board of Health i in authority, or without tin* consent of the exj ecutive officers before such certificate has been issued, shall lie subject to a ltoualty as provided by section 9, of an act passed February Jn, 1891. (Copies of these rules aud regulations, and the necessary cards and flags, will be furnished on application to the proper health officer.) BURIAL. Rule 18. It is made the duty of every person who may have charge of any one ijrho has died of small-pox, to cause the body of any such person to be Interred within twelve hours after death. Whenever any person lias died from small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or cholera,