Pennsylvania Act 1905-165 — CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, CONTROL OF IN FIRST CLASS CITIES

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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, CONTROL OF IN FIRST CLASS CITIES
                 Act of Apr. 20, 1905, P.L. 228, No. 165              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for the protection of the public health, by giving
        and granting to those having charge of the public health and
        sanitation in cities of the first class of this Commonwealth
        full power to make rules and regulations governing the care
        and control of persons suffering from cholera, yellow fever,
        typhoid fever, typhus fever, scarlet fever, relapsing fever,
        small-pox, (variola or varioloid), chicken-pox, (varicella),
        diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, membraneous croup, cerebro-
        spinal meningitis, measles, mumps, whooping-cough,
        tuberculosis (in any of its diverse forms), pneumonia,
        erysipelas, puerperal fever, plague (Bubonic), trachoma,
        leprosy, tetanus, glanders, hydrophobia (rabies) or anthrax;
        also, to make rules and regulations governing the sanitary
        control and disinfection of premises, where persons may be or
        have been suffering from said diseases, and of persons coming
        in contact therewith, and the burial of persons who may die
        from any of said diseases; also fixing fines and penalties
        for the violation thereof and the enforcement of the same.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all departments of
     health of the cities of the first class of this Commonwealth
     shall have full power, and shall make, immediately after this
     act shall become a law, such rules and regulations, which in
     their judgment may be proper and necessary, for the protection
     of the public health, and amend or alter the same, from the
     diseases known as cholera, yellow, malarial, typhoid, typhus,
     scarlet, puerperal and relapsing fevers, small-pox (variola or
     varioloid), chicken-pox (varicella), diphtheria, diphtheritic
     and membraneous croups, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles,
     mumps, whooping-cough, tuberculosis (in any of its diverse
     forms), pneumonia, erysipelas, plague (Bubonic), trachoma,
     leprosy, tetanus, glanders, hydrophobia (rabies) and anthrax.
        Section 2.  That said rules and regulations shall cover and
     include:
        (a)  The reports to be made by physicians or other persons,
     in attendance upon any person afflicted with any of the said
     diseases, to said health authorities.
        (b)  The quarantining and disinfecting of persons and
     premises, and the placarding of notices.
        (c)  The treatment or disposal of infected bedding, clothing,
     or other articles.
        (d)  The care and burial of the bodies of persons who may
     have died from any of the said diseases, fixing the limit of
     time for burial, the methods to be used, the attendance of
     persons, and the style of advertising the funeral.
        (e)  The disinfection of conveyances used in the burial of
     persons who may have died from said diseases, or which may have
     been used by a person afflicted with any of said diseases, or
     person who may have been in contact with the same.
        (f)  The admission and attendance of persons at public or
     private schools, hospitals and asylums, or any other public or
     private educational or charitable institutions, and the
     compulsory vaccination and revaccination of inmates thereof, and
     of persons attending the same, or employed therein as
     physicians, teachers, nurses, or in any other capacity.
        Section 3.  All rules and regulations and all changes and
     amendments, when adopted, shall be printed and distributed for
     public use; copies of the same shall be filed with the State
     Board of Health. Copies shall be prepared and furnished to every
     educational institution, public or private, and to every
     physician and undertaker, within the jurisdiction of the health
     authorities promulgating the same.