ï~~'Mel )g6ul/doc) 'snf Aq pepealoid eq Aew pue Apjed pijt e Aq eupoipe'J jo A~qie7IUOPBeq 41 109 UO fl o aWOJJ pedoo seM abed sitg uo leuele *L - 48 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HEALTB REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HEALTH 49 Section 6793: Boards in incorporated towns. In every 'incorpor ated town in the state, the town board of trustees shall constitute a board of health, and shall perform all the duties required of the town ship board of directors, and shall be under the same supervision of the state board of health and the county superintendent of public health. Section 6794: City boards-powers. In cities in this state the mayor and common couicil shall constitute a board of health; said mayor and councilmen shall have the power, and afre hereby authorized, to appoint a city superintendent of public health, who shall be a regularly licensed and practicing physician in good standing and of good moral character, and a resident of said city. Said mayor and council shall have the power, and it is hereby made their duty, to enforce all of the rules and maintain quarantine under the supervision of the city superintendent of public health, as prescribed by the rules and regulations of the state board of health relating to all contagious and infectious diseases. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Section 6795: Physicians to report contagious diseases-quar antine. It shall be the duty of all practicing physicians in each county to make a report to the county superintendent of public health for said county, upon forms to be prescribed and furnished by the state board of- health, of all the cases of infectious and contagious diseases. Such report shall 'be made by said physician as soon as the,disease is discovered, and upon failure on the part of the physician so to report said disease as herein provided, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars and not more than twentyrfive dollars. Upon receiving the, said report, it shall be the duty of the county superintendent, if such contagious and infectious disease exists in a township or-town, to issue an order of quarantine to the board'of health,' as herein created, in such township or town, in such form as may be stipulated by the rules and' regulations of the state board Ofi health, requiring such township or town board of health to serve a true copy of said order of quarantine upon such person or persons having such contagious or infectious disease, and upon the person having charge of such person or persons, in the same manner as criminal processes are served; and thereupon such person having such contagious or infectious disease or exposed to such infection or contagious disease who shall" leave the place where he has been isolated by any township or town board of health, or by any officer or other person acting confined, and all other persons exposed to said infectious and contagious disease shall, at the discretion of said township or town board of health, be also isolated and confined; and any person having such disease who shall leave the place where he hao been isolated by any township or town board of health, or by any officer or other person acting under any order sof the said township or town board of health, without the consent of the said board of health, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, and not to exceed one hundred dollars. Any person confined or isolated by order of a township or town board of health shall not be released or relieved of such isolation or quarant'ne without an order from the county superintendent of public healit made to the township or town board of health. Whenever a physician discovers a case of infectious disease he shall have the power, and it is hereby made his duty, to place into effect a temporary qarantine, under such rules,and regulations as prescribed by the state 1oard of health, and until the proper authority can order a quarantine, and the penalty herein provided for the violation of a township or town quarantine shall be enforced against the violation of a quarantine order made by such physician. QUARANTINE IN CITIES. Section 6796: Same-in cities. It shall be the duty of every practicing physician in any city to make a report to the city superin tendent of public health, upon forms prescribed and, furnished by the state board of health, of all cases of infectious and contagious disease, as soon as discovered by him or coming to his knowledge. Any failure upon the part of said physician to report said disease as herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. Section 6797: Same-quarantine in cities. Upon receiving said report it shall be the duty of the city superintendent of public health to issue an order of quarantine to the mayor of said city, on such form as may be stipulated by the rules and regulations of the state board of health, requiring such mayor to serve a true copy of said order of 0