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31 of 1902 - Ordinance 31 of 1902 – Providing quarantine rules & regulations, etc. OWV O R D I N A N C E An ordinance providing Quarantine Rules and Regulations in Salt Lake City, and making provisions for disinfection in certain cases. Be:it thrdained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah: Section 1. That the following rules and regulations, in relation to the quarantine of and disinfection after scarlet fever, I small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague, epidemic cerebra-spinal meningitis, whooping cough, measles, typhoid fever, chickenpox and other infectious or contagious diseases are hereby adopted and declared to be in force in Salt Lake City: RULE 1. It shall be the duty of every physician or other person caring for the sick in Salt Lake City, and every person having knowledge of the existence, in Salt Lake City, of any of the diseases hereinafter mentioned, or any other infectious or contagious disease, to make a report of the existence of such disease, to the Board of Health, on forms to be furnished by said Board, within five (5) hours after such physician or other person becomes aware of the existence of any case of scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague, epidemic cerebre-spinal meningitis, whooping cough, typhoid fever, measles, chickenpox, or any acute contagious eruptive disease in his or her charge, or within his or her knowledge; additional cases occurring in the same house shall be reported in the same manner as the first case. Provided, that if the existence of such disease be discovered after five (5) o'clock P. M., or before eight (8) o'clock A. M., or I on a legal holiday, it shall be reported as soon as may be, but not later than twelve (12) o'clock noon next thereafter. RULE 2. The Board of Health may at all reasonable times, and after the exercise of proper disinfection, in accordance with the methods of 31. -2- the Board, permit any person not affected with any of the diseases in these quarantine rules specified, to leave the premises wherein any of said diseases may exist, provided, that the Board of Health, in its discretion may require any such person, although properly disinfected, to be detained in some isolated house or room a suffi- cient length of time to determine whether or not such person has contracted any such disease to which he or she may have been exposed. RULE 3. Upon the outside of any dwelling house, living room, apartment, or flat wherein is domiciled any person or persons having scarlet fever, small-pox, diphther , bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro- spinal meningitis, and near the front door or main entrance thereto, there must be displayed immediately upon the discovery of the existence of any such disease, a yellow flag not less than eighteen (18) inches in length by twelve (12) inches in height, upon which is printed in plain black letters at least six (6) inches; in height, the name of the disease which therein exists. It shall be unlawful for any person not a practising physician to leave such premises, wherein is domiciled any person having any of the diseases in this paragraph described, without first obtain- ing permission from the Board of Health, from the time of the discovery of any of said diseases until the quarantine on such premises shall have been removed, and the flag hereinbefore described taken down by the authority of the Board of Health. RULE 4. 1 I Upon the outside of any dwelling house, living room or apart- went wherein is domiciled any person or persons having measles or whooping cough, and near the front door or main entrance thereto, there must be displayed immediately upon the discovery of the existence of such disease, a white card at least twelve (12) inches in length by eight (8) inches in width, upon which is printed in plain black letters at least three (3) inches in height, the name k,r: -3- of the disease which therein exists. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons suffering from 1I either of such diseases to leave such premises after the discovery of such disease, until fully recovered, and until quarantine there- on has been lawfully removed, and such card taken down by the authority of the Board of Health; it shall likewise be unlawful for parents or guardians to allow children, whether actually suffering from either of said diseases or not, to leave the premises where either of such diseases exists from the time of the discovery of such disease until the removal of quarantine thereon, without first obtaining permission from the Board of Health. RULE 5. It shall be unlawful for any person cr persons to cut, mar, burn, deface, destroy, cover up or in any manner mutilate, obliter- ate or remove, any quarantine flag or card, posted by authority of the Board of Health. It shall likewise be unlawful for any person or persons to interfere with, hinder, delay or obstruct any agent or agents, officers or employees of the Board. of Health. in the discharge of their duties. RULE 6. The quarantine flag shall be displayed at least twenty-one (21) days after scarlet fever or small-pox, and. fourteen (14) days after diphtheria is first reported, and longer if directed by the Board of Health. In case of death the quarantine flag shall be displayed for not less than seven (7) days thereafter, and longer if directed by the Board of Health. 1 RULE 7. It shall be unlawful for any person wi13 is, or who has been, I affected with either scarlet fever, diphtheria, small-pox, whooping cough or measles, to leave the dwelling house, living room or apartment in which he or she has been so affected, without a permit from the Board of Health, which shall only issue upon presentation -4- of a written certificate from the attending physician that all danger of communicating the disease has passed.. RULE 8. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons residing or lodging in any dwelling house, living room or apartment wherein either scarlet fever, diphtheria, small-pox, bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis is present, or which is still under quarantine for any of such diseases, to leave such. house without the written permission of the Board of Health. RULE 9. No permit to attend school or other public gathering shall be granted to a person affected with scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, until twenty-one (21) days after the removal of quarantine in cases of scarlet fever, small-pox and bubonic plague, and fourteen (14) days after the removal of quarantine in diphtheria cases. Persons other than the particular individual affected, who have been under quarantine, shall, after the removal cf such quarantine be permitted , to attend school and other public gatherings, upon presentation of a written permit from the Board of Health. RULE 10. It shall be unlawful for aoy person to give, lend, sell, transmit, remove,or expose, without previous disinfection, accord- ing to the rules of the Board of Health, any bedding,clothing, rags, or other objects which have been exposed to infection from scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague, epidemic cerebro- spinal meningitis, whooping cough, measles, typhoid fever or chickenpox. RULE 11. It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners, or his or their agents, of any conveyance, in which has been conveyed any person afflicted with a contagious disease, or any person or thing liable to carry infection, to use or allow such conveyance to be used for i -5- any purpose, until it has been thoroughly disinfected under the supervision of the Board of Health, or its agent. RULE 12. It shall he unlawful for the owner or agent of any house in which a person has been suffering from any contagious disease, to let it or part of it for hire, without having previously disinfect- ed it and all articles therein, according to the rules of the. Board of Health-or under the supervision of it or its agents. RULE 13. It shall be unlawful for any person to take from a dwelling house, living room or apartment, within the city limits, in which there is existing or has existed a case of contagious or infectious disease, any material or articles for the purpose of washing or cleaning, without permission of the Health Commissioner or Board of Health, or to bring any such material, or articles within the city limits for the purpose of washing or cleaning the same. RULE 14. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons having knowledge of the removal, defacement or obliteration of any quarantine flag or warning sign, 'intended to inform the public of the existence of any contagious disease, to refrain from. advising the Board of Health of such removal for more than twenty-four (24) hours. RULE 15. It shall be unlawful for any physician or other person, to counsel or advise any other person or persons to disregard, disobey or violate any of these quarantine rules or regulations. RULE 16. It shall be the duty of the physician or person in attendance on any contagious case, to report in every instance, to the Board of Health on the forms provided, whether or not children in the same family or other children in the same building attend school, and if so, at what school building or buildings they so attend. i i -6- RULE 17. All persons suffering from either scarlet fever, small-pox, dlplatheria, bubonic plague, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles or whooping cough, shall. be isolated in rooms as far removed as possible from those occupied by other persons in the same building, and upon the to; floor when practicable. No person other than the physician in attendance and the nurse or nurses, shall be admitted to such room during the prevalence of scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro- spinal meningitis, and in no case shall the nurse or nursed,, visit other portions of the house without having taken precautions by change of clothing, disinfection or otherwise against conveying contagion. Every room occupied by a patient suffering from any contagious or infectious disease shall be immediately cleared of all needless clothing, carpets, drapery and other materials likely to harbor the poisons of the disease. RULE 18. Soiled bed and body linen shall be iranodi_aCely placed in vessels of water containing a solution of 1-1000 hi-chloride of mercury or a solution of chloride of lime of a strength, of eight (8) ounces to a gallon of water, or some other suitable and equally efficacious disinfectant, and be allowed to remain. in such solution or disinfectant at least half an hour. RULE 19. Excremental discharges from a patient suffering from contagious or infectious diseases shall be received in vessels containing a solution of 1-1000 bi-chloride of mercury or a solution of chloride of lime of a strength of eight (8) ounces to a gallon of water, or some other suitable and equally efficacious disinfectant, and shall then be allowed to stand for half an hour before being emptied into sewer or erivy vault. All vessels shall Ito kept scrupulously clean and thoroughly disinfected. Discharges front the t..hroat, nose -l- and mouth shall be received upon pieces of cloth, which must be immediately burned. RUI E 20. All persons convalescing from scarlet fever, small-pox,diph- theria, bubonic plague, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis and whooping cough shall be considered. dangerous, and ;ihatl not be permitted to associate with others until a certiaicate has been issued to them by the Board of Health, to the effect that they may go abroad without danger of disseminating the contagion. RULE 21. It shall be unlawful for any undertaker, or any person acting as such, called to take charge of the body of any person wico has died from scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, to take charge of the body of such parson without first notifying the Board of Health of such call. It shall likewise be unlawful for any undertaker or any person in card, of the funeral of any person wan tine died of scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, to permit the mingling of persons attending such funeral who have been exposed to toe disease from which such person may have died with persons who have not been so exposed. RULE 22. In all cases where a person has died from scarlet fever, small- epidemic pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague o hoerebro-spinal meningitis, it shall. be the duty of the undertaker or other person in charge of such dead body, to thoroughly disinfect the same and place it in a tight burial case, which case shall not thereafter be opened. RULE 23. It shall be unlawful to hold a public funeral over the body of a person who has died from either scarlet fever, small-pox, diph- theria, bubonic plague or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, or to remove the dead body or casket containing it, to any church, meeting 8- house or place of public assembly, or to in any manner remove such body or casket in any public conveyance. RULE 24. It shall be. tn.e duty of the undertaker or other , arson in charge of the funeral of any person who has died of any contagious disease, to sue that the ,elede.eai?ees-of-6aJ Laic 0e'hy and the rules of the Board of Health re9.ating to te conduct of such funeral are sric'dy complied v! th, and to promptly report to such Board in whit wxig,airy infraci. ,n n eeeof. RULE 25. It shall be unlawful to reieova the quarantine flag, from any 1 premises where scarlet fever, small-pox, diphtheria, bubonic plague 6r epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis has existed until such prom- ises eZhall have 1)een,thoreugaly disinfected under the supervision of the Board of FFealth or its authorized agent. a „ e Section 2. ,•hy" f,erson violating any of the provisions of this ordirttince, shall';be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and she-i] on oonv iu!.iou (,),..cur, Dv puniaucd bj a fine of nut, to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 3. That part of Chapter 5 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, which is entitled "Rules approved by the Board of Health August 8th, 1890;" and also an ordihanoe providing quarantine rules in Salt Lake City, approved by the Mayor December dth, 1900; and also an ordinance amending the last named ordinance approved by the Mayor January 28th, 1902; and also all other ordinances andlparts of ordinances inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Section 4. This ordinance s'aa_.l take efnct upon ,pleeeval. Paaoed ty the city uounoil of 3elt Laite city, Utah, 6Eay 20, 1902, And referred to the Mayor for his soorovs 0. .1� ity to rie;:\ Ac.oroved this g- sy of May, 1202. Mey or. , - - 11.3Jra -.)v 0,t1,-,, -. .,,, L.,,.. ‘ .',,, .o.L'. ,o,; ',o t,,„.1cinto..1„i oi...r..,,,,,f,,,. 1,,,s r4o.,,o. i.c., oairo,,, .f..,o ,,,,,sr,vr.lot, o i_L,,is,,, ;,,,,,, c.i. ,,...,.,,,',o .i,.:. 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