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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 288 07/13/1948 FMO*AGH 1&:5c 7/J*"" '48 ~.tt. AN ORDINANCE REGULATING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. ****** 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~ I 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 -2- 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. ~~ _ l?l~t6;~~ President Acting Village C PUBLISHED in the MOUNT PROSPECT HERALD the /~ "!, day of July, 1948.