A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers / By Charles Harrington.

  • Harrington, Charles, 1856-1908.
Date:
1914
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Credit: A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers / By Charles Harrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    sale : And provided further, That in the reports of cases of the venereal diseases the name and address of the patient need not be given. Sec. 4. The requirements of the preceding section shall be ap- plicable to physicians attending patients ill with any of the notiiiable diseases in hospitals, asylums, or other institutions, public or private: Provided, That the superintendent or other person in charge of any such hospital, asylum, or other institution in which the sick are cared for may, with the written consent of the local health officer (or board of health) having jurisdiction, rejjort in the place of the attending physician or physicians the cases of notifiable diseases and disabilities occurring in or admitted to said hospital, asylum, or other institution in the same manner as that prescribed for physicians. Sec. 5. Whenever a person is known, or is suspected, to be afflicted ■with a notifiable disease, or whenever the eyes of an infant under two weeks of age become reddened, inflamed, or swollen, or contain an unnatural discharge, and no physician is in attendance, an immediate report of the existence of the case shall be made to the local health officer by the midwife, nurse, attendant, or other person in charge of the patient. Sec. 6. Teachers or other persons employed in, or in charge of, public or private schools, including Sunday-schools, shall report immediately to the local health officer each and every known or suspected case of a notifiable disease in persons attending or employed in their respective schools. Sec. 7. The written reports of cases of the notifiable disease required by this act of physicians shall be made upon blanks supplied for the purpose, through the local health authorities, by the State dejjartment of health. These blanks shall conform to that adopted and approved by the State and Territorial health authorities in conference with the United States Public Health Service. Sec. 8. Local health officers or boards of health shall within seven days after the receipt by them of reports of cases of the notifiable diseases forward by mail to the State department of health the original written reports made by physicians, after first having tran- scribed the information given in the respective reports in a book or other form of record for the permanent files of the local health office. On eacli rejiort thus forwarded the local health officer shall state whether the case to which the report pertains was visited or otherwise investigated by a representative of the local health office, and whether measures were taken to prevent the spread of the disease or the occurrence of additional cases. Se<;. 9. Local health officers or boards of health shall, in addition to the provisions of Section 8, make such other reports as may be pro- vided for the regulations promulgated by the State department of health (or board of health). SfX'. 10. Whenever there occurs witliin the jurisdiction of a local Ix^itli officer or board of iiealtli an cpideniie of a notiliahle disease, the local health oflicer or board of health shall, within tiiirty days after