Isleton Municipal Code Ch. 5.16 Diseases

Contagious disease shall include every disease of any infectious, communicable, contagious or pestilential nature, particularly cholera, yellow fever, small pox, vericella, pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, typhus fever, measles, pneumonia, and every other disease publicly declared by the board of health to be dangerous to the public health.

Every physician must report in writing to the board of health within 24 hours after he has been called to attend any person afflicted with any infectious, contagious, communicable or pestilential disease, the name of, and place of residence of such person, and the name and state of the disease. In the event of the death of any person afflicted with any such disease, the attending physician must report in writing to the board of health within 24 hours thereafter, the name and place of resident of the deceased and the specific name and type of such disease.

Every physician and every person having the control or management of any public or private institution or dispensary shall report in writing to the board of health the name, age, sex, occupation and place of residence of every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis who shall come within his care, within one week thereafter.

Every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis and every person in charge of any private or public hospital or dispensary shall observe and enforce all sanitary rules and regulations adopted by the board of health to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis.

It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with, or obstruct the members, officers and inspectors of the board of health in the examination of any building or premises wherein a person is reported to be afflicted with any contagious disease.

The board of health is hereby authorized and empowered to post in a conspicuous place upon the building or premises wherein any person is afflicted with any contagious disease a notice specifying the name of such disease. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the post of such notice and to tear down or mutilate such notice so posted by the board of health in or upon such premises.

Whenever the board of health shall have reason to suspect the presence of any contagious disease within any building or premises and the physician, in attendance, or the head of the family refuses to permit the representatives of the board of health to personally examine the person suspected of being afflicted with such disease the board of health shall quarantine the premises and prevent ingress and egress from and to the same until such examination is permitted or until said member has practiced disinfection or detention to its satisfaction.

Whenever any person residing in a hotel, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house is afflicted with any contagious disease, the owner, lessee, keeper or manager of such place must immediately give notice thereof to the board of health. Immediately upon the receipt of such notice the board of health must cause an examination of the person so afflicted and if, in its judgment, it be necessary, it shall cause such place or any part thereof to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in an effective manner, and the board of health may cause the wall paper thereon to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in an effective manner and the board of health may cause the wall paper to be removed or placed, and the walls thereof to be whitewashed, and it may cause the bedding and bed-clothes used by the person so afflicted to be thoroughly cleansed, scoured and fumigated, or, if necessary, to be destroyed.

It shall be unlawful for any person having the possession or charge of the remains of any person who shall have died with any contagious disease to permit such remains to be viewed by any person except the attending physician, the representative of the board of health, the undertaker and his assistants and the immediate members of the family of the decedent, or to permit public services to be held over such remains within the premises where the death of such person occurred, or to remove or cause to be removed the body of such deceased person from said premises or any place other than a cemetery or crematory.

It shall be unlawful for any undertaker to assist in any public or church funeral on the body of any person who has died of a contagious disease.

It shall be unlawful for any person without a written permit from the board of health to remove or cause to be removed any person afflicted with a contagious disease from any building to any other building.

It shall be unlawful for any person having charge or control of any person afflicted with a contagious disease, or having control of the dead body of any person who has died of such disease, to cause, or to contribute to the spread of any such disease by any negligent act in the care of such sick person or such body or by the needless exposure of him in the community.

It shall be unlawful for any member or superintendent of any public or private school and any parent or guardian or custodian of any minor child afflicted with any contagious disease, or in whose household any person is so afflicted, to permit such minor to attend any public or private school until the board of health shall have given its written permission therefor.

The board of health is hereby authorized and empowered to remove or cause to be removed any person or persons afflicted with small pox, cholera, yellow fever, bubonic plague, typhus fever or any other contagious, communicable or infectious disease residing in, or being found in houses, places or districts within the city to such hospital as said board of health may designate; provided that no action looking towards to removal of any person afflicted with any of the above mentioned diseases shall be taken by said board of health until after a due and satisfactory investigation made personally by it.

The board of health of the city is hereby authorized and empowered to quarantine persons, houses, places and districts within the city when in its judgment it is deemed necessary to prevent the spreading of contagious, communicable or infectious diseases.

Any person who shall violate section 5.16.010—5.16.080, or shall in any manner interfere with the board of health, or any of its officers or members, in the performance of any duty required of them by this chapter or any other ordinance of said city shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00 or by imprisonment in the city jail for more than 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.