HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 368 ORDINANCE NO J~/
AN ORDINANCE RELATIND TO INFECT-
I0U ;, CONTAGIOUS AND C0~,~,~'UNICABLE DISEASES:
PP, F..[~,CRIBING THE DUTIES OF THE HEALTH 0FFI~ER,
PHY[',ICIANS AND OTHER PERSONS IN RELATION tHERE-
TO' PROVIDING FOR THE QUARANTINE ISOLATION
AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS IN RESPECT'T~RET0, AND
PR01'IDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, AND
REP_,',ALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF 0RDIN~J~CES
IN IONFLICT HEREWITH.
WHEreAS, ,he immediate preservation of the .public health
requires the pas ~age of an emergency Ordinance relating to infec-
tious, contagiou~ and communicable diseases;
NOW, THER]FORE, be it ordained by the Comncil of the City of
Bakersfield., as ~ollows'
SECTION 1. Thai, for ;he purposes of this .0rdinsnce, the following words
and phrases shal have the meaning hereinafter set forth:
CAPJ~IER: Any person who may be free from symptoms of a dis-
ease smd who bari,ors baccilli or germs of such disease.
CONTAGIOU · Communicable by contact or touch.
CON??ACT' A person who has be~n recently in close association
with a per'son in?ected.
C0~UNICA~LE DISEASE' Disease capable of being, communicated.
EXCLUSION PERIOD' Time prescribed by Health Officer for
quarantine or isolation or persons in'fected with contagioms or c'om-
mmnicable di seas~.
INFF, CTIOUS DISEASE' Disease con~nunicated by chance; carried.
in the air or water and thus spread without contact with the patient·
ISOLATE' To compel to remain at a distance or at a given
place v;ithout intercourse.
QUARANTII~E ~.~:~RIOD. 'The period of time which must elapse before
those exposed tc contagion or attacked by it, can be considered in-'
capable, respectively, of developing or transmitting the disease, snd
during which tinge all persons are forbidden to enter or leave the
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premises, or remove any articles therefrom without the permission of
the Health Officer.
SECTION 2. It is hereby ms.de the duty of every physician, Christian Sci-
ence Practitioner or pur.~orted healer of any sad every kind sn~ char-
act~,r or name in the City of Bakersfield, who visits for treatment,
or treats stay person for conta?jious sickness, no matter by what name
same may be desi~sted by such physician or ~:erson, either as illness,
disease or error, or in what manner the same may be treated by such
person, to report s~ch contagious case i.~m~ediately to the Health Offi-
cer, and it is also their duty to report to such Health Officer all
cases or suspected cases of anthrax, beri-beri, cerebro~pinal meniny~i-
tis (epidemic), chickenpox, cholera (asiatic), dengue, diiohtheria, dys-
entery, erysipelas, German measles, glanders, gonococcus infection (re-
port by office nmmber), hookwo~,t, leprosy, maleria, measles, m~mps,
ophthalmia neonator~m, paratyphoid fever, pellagra, pls~;ue, pneumonia
(lobar), poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis),' rabies, Rocky ]~otmtain
spotted. (or tick) fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, syphilis (report
by office nm.~:ber), tetsmus, trachoma, t~berculosis, typhoid fever,
typhus fever, whoopinf;-co~h, yellow fever, anf, all contagious, i~fec-
tious and co:.,~nmnicable diseases req. aired by the rules of the Sts.te
Board of Health to be reported to such Board.
SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the head of every household, and every
person keeping a board' ~
zn~ or lodging house, or a hotel, or the Super-
intendent of any institution or any school within the City of Bakers-
field, to forthwith report to the Health Officer of said City, if a
report has not been already ms,de as provided in Section 2 hereof, the
name of every person who is an inmate of his or her home, or his or
her hotel, boardin~ or lodging house, institution or school, whom he
or she has reason to believe has any disease mentioned i~:~ Section 2
her,,of, or any contagious or infectio~s disease, and shall also re-
port the death of any person occ~ring in said house, hotel, boarding
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or lodging house, from any such contag~ious disease,
SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer or of some person
authorized by him, immediately after the receipt of notice announcing
the existence in any building.: of any infectious or contag.~ious disease,
to quarantine smme if so directed by the State Board of Health,/o~ if
in his judgment said build.in~; should be quarantined. Said building
shall be quarantined by posting i~ such places as may be designated
by the Health Officer, a placard or flag upon. which shall be printed
the name of the disease in plain smd legible letters of at least two
and one-half (2-~) inches in length. The Health Officer may, in his
judgment, quarantine the whole or any portion of said building.
Placards or flagos, announcing the existance of infectious or contagious
di.seases in a building or .cart of a building shall not be removed,
defaced or destroyed by any person except the Health Officer, or by
some person authorized by him, and in ~o case ~ntil the premises shall
have been thoroughly disinfected. Premises or parts of premises,
while quarantined, shall not be visited nor resided in by any person
or persons other 'than those who are sick, or by those in attendance
on said sick person or persons.
SECTION 5. No per,~ona shall drive or use any vehicle or permit any vehicle
belonging to him or her, or ~nder his or her control 'to be driven or
used for the conveyance or removal of any person or persons infected
with any inf,sctious or contagious diseases without the written con-
sent of the Health Officer first had smd obtained.
SECTION 6. No person attending upon or coming in contact with any person
infected with any contaf~ious or infectious disease in such a manner
or to such an extent as to render them liable to commaicate the
.......... di'seaSe '(except physicians, clergymen, nurses 'and those engaged-.in
treating.~, contagious diseases) shall go' upon any public street or
attend public or private school, church, place of amusement, or in
any way mingle with people not affected with the disease, and all
places, premises and exposed rooms, and all personal property which
have become infected with infectious or contagious matter by reason
of such contact, ~shall be thoroughly disinfected by or under the
direction of the Health Officer, and.in such manner as he shall direct,
SECTION 7. No person shall remove a patient 'suffering from any infectious
or contagious disease from any house, or place within the City of
Bakersfield, to any other house or place without the written consent
of the Heal'th Officer; and all such removals shall be done only by or
under the direction of the Health Officer.
SECTION 8. Ail diseases ment'ioned in Section 2 hereof, shall be subject
to quaranti:ae in the manner snd for the period as prescribed by the
State Board of Health, for each such disease, respectively.
SECTION 9. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to see thatl all
cases of chickenpox, measles, German measles, mumps, and whooping
cough, are properly isolated and to define the area in which the~
patient and his immediate attendants s.~'e to be officially isolated.
Without permission, from the Health Officer, no person shall carry,
remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed from any hotel,
boarding house, lodging house, or other dwelling, any person affected
with the diseases mentioned herein. Isolation in these diseases is
defined as that degree of detention necessary to insure non-contact
with susceptible persons. Isolation shall be terminated only by the
Health officer.
SECTION 10. ~qaen a person affected with any of the diseases mentioned in
Section 9 of this Ordinance is properly isolated on the premises,
adult members of the family or household, unless forbidden by the
Health Officer, may continue their usual vocations pro.~ided such
vocations do not bring them in close contact with children.
SECTION 11. Every child or teacher, or any adult person who is an inmate
of a household in which there is or has been within fifteen (1~)
days, any of the diseases mentioned in Section 9 of this' Ordinance,
shall be excluded from every public, private or Sunday school, and
from every ~oublic or private gathering of children, except upon
written permission of the Health Officer.. Persons excluded from
school under'this regulation shall return only on presentation to
the school authorities of a certificate from the Health Officer that
they are el:[gible so to do.
SECTION 12. It shall be the duty'of the principal or other person in
charge of any public, private or Sunday school to exclude therefrom
any child or other person affected with a disease presumably commun-
icable, until such child or other person shall have been seen by the
School Nurse, or shall have oresented a certificate issued by the
Health Officer or by the attending physician and countersigned by
the Health Officer, stating that such child or other person is not
liable to convey a communicable disease.
SECTION 13. Records of tubercular cases when reported as provided in
Section 2, hereof, shall not be kept so that they are accessible to
the public and special care shall be taken to protect the privacy
of these records.
SECTION 14. When premises have been vacated by a person sick with open
tuberculosis, they must not be occupied until the same have been
tho. roug~hly cleaned and disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health
Officer. St~ch cleaning should be performed at the expense of the
owner or occupant of the oremises. When. in the opinion of the Health
Officer renovation is also necessa.ry, this may consist of re-oaperi~,
re-painting or re-calcimining of walls and wood work, such premises
not to be. occupied except upon written permission from the Health
Officer.
SECTION t%. All children having infectious discharges from eyes, ears or
suppurating glands shall be excluded from school until the discharge
has disappeared, smd shall not be permitted to attend same without
written pen~ission of the Health Officer.
SECTION 16. All children having pediculosis shall be excluded from school
~ntil same have disappeared, and shall not be permitted to attend
said school without written permission of the Health Officer.
SECTION 17. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to make such other
rules and regulations for the prevention and control of all contagiou~
infec~-ious and communicable diseases as may be necessary or the rules
of the State Board of Health may require.
SECTION 18. Any person failing to perform any duty prescribed herein, or
violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be p~nish-
able by a fine in 'the s~m not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00)
or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding nine-
ty (90) day~., or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 19. Each. such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for
· ~' every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of
this'~Ordinance is committed, contained or permitted by such person, and
shall be pmaishable therefor as provided by this Ordinance.
Th~, Ordinance is designed for the immediate preservation of
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the public health and is hereby declared to be an emergency measure,and
shall be in full force and effect immediately, upon its passage.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was passed by the
Co~ucil of the City of Bakersfield, on the/~ day of March, 1918, by
NAYS: /~ .
Co -cuffgj/l of th§ City of Bakersfield.
APPROVED this / day of March, 1918.