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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1. That the term "contagious, epidemic, or
communicable disease" is hereby defined to mean any of the fol-
lowing: cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus,
typhoid fever, small pox, measles, whooping cough, influenza,
cerebrospinal fever, septic sore throat, or any grades of these
di:seases, and any disease designated by the Board of Health a~
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contagious, epidemic, or communicable.
SECTION 2. Any physician or any other person who shall
discover, prescribe for, treat, care for, attend, or learn of
any person within the Village having, or suspected of having, a
contagious, epidemic, or communicable disease, within twenty-
four hours after first discovering or learning of the existence
or suspected existence of the disease, shall report the facts
to the Board of Health, giving the name, if known, and the place
of residence or the location of said person having, or suspected
of having, the disease, and the character and state of the dis-
ease.
SECTION 3. the Board of Health shall impose such re-
strictions upon and exercise such supervision of such person
reported to it as having or suspected of having, a contagious,
epidemic, or communicable disease, as shall be necessary to protec
other persons. To aid in securirig the isolation of a person
having, or suspected of having, a contagious, epidemc, or com-
municable disease, the Board of Health shall cause a notice of
the disease to be placed upon or near the house, apartment or
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building in which the person is sick. No person shall deface,
alter, conceal, mutilate, destroy or tear down any such notice,
wihout permission of the Board of Health; and every occupant of
said building upon which the notice is placed shall be responsi-
ble for the removal of the notice. No person within such quar-
antined premises shall be permitted to associate with others
unless they shall first have submitted to the Board of Health a
certificate from a reputable physiCian that said person, adult
or child, have had the disease or are immune therefrom by virtue
of vaccination or other vacines.
SECTION 4. Any person who disobeys or violates any of
the provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars.
SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, approval and publication, ac-
cording to law.
PASSED: this 13th day of July, 1948.
APPROVED:
this
13th day .~ July, 1948. ~~ _
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President
Acting Village C
PUBLISHED in the MOUNT PROSPECT HERALD
the /~ "!, day of July, 1948.