Sec. 15-21. - Vaccination prerequisite to admission to schools.

No child or other person shall be permitted to attend any of the public schools, or any place of education within this city, unless such child or other person shall first present a certificate from some duly qualified physician to the director of public health that such child or other person has been successfully vaccinated as required by state and local school district regulations. Such certificate shall give a description of such child or person, his age and nationality, the kind of vaccination used, and such other information as the director of public health may require, for which purpose the director of public health shall furnish the necessary blanks to all persons requiring the same.

(Code 1950, § 14-3; Code 1959, § 18-9)

Sec. 15-22. - Certificate of vaccination.

The director of public health, or his assistant, shall give a certificate of such vaccination, or certify to the correctness of such certificate presented from some other physician, and such certificate, or certified certificate, shall be presented to the superintendent, principal or teacher of the school at which such child or person seeks to be admitted, before admission.

(Code 1950, § 14-4; Code 1959, § 18-10)

Sec. 15-23. - List of vaccinated or unvaccinated persons in schools.

It shall be the duty of all persons conducting any place or institution of education within the limits of the city to furnish the director of public health, whenever so required, a list by name of all teachers, pupils, employees and other persons connected therewith in any capacity whatsoever, and a statement duly verified by affidavit of such person so conducting such place or institution, or other person cognizant of such fact, showing date, time and place of vaccination of all such teachers, pupils, employees and other persons connected therewith, if vaccinated, and if not vaccinated such statement shall so show. The director of public health may require the certificate of such duly qualified physician that such teachers, pupils, employees and other persons connected therewith, have been successfully vaccinated within five (5) years preceding the date of such report, such certificate to give such description and other particulars to be furnished on such blanks as are provided for in section 15-21.

(Code 1950, § 14-5; Code 1959, § 18-11)

Sec. 15-24. - When vaccination compulsory.

Whenever in the opinion of the director of public health it is necessary for the public health, or the health of any such place or institution of education, that all teachers, pupils, employees or other persons therewith connected be vaccinated, the board of health may require such vaccination within such period of time and under such regulations as the director of public health may require.

(Code 1950, § 14-6; Code 1959, § 18-12)

Sec. 15-25. - Diseased persons, notification.

It shall be unlawful for any person afflicted with any communicable disease to be or remain in this city, or for any physician to treat any such afflicted person, or for any person to keep, nurse or care for any such afflicted person, unless notice of the presence of such contagious disease be given to the director of public health as required in this article and also unless such afflicted person be kept, cared for and treated under the conditions prescribed in this article. The presence and treatment otherwise than as aforesaid of any person afflicted with a contagious disease is hereby prohibited and declared to be a public nuisance and a menace to the health of the city, which it shall be unlawful for any person to permit, maintain or continue in any apartment or on any premises in this city owned, or occupied or controlled by him.

(Code 1950, § 14-1; Code 1959, § 18-8)

Sec. 15-26. - Standard of care of diseased persons required.

(a)

Every person in this city afflicted with a contagious disease, whether in any hospital, either public or private or on private premises, shall be kept, cared for and treated under the following conditions:

(1)

Room. The room or apartment in which the patient shall be kept shall be clean and shall have sound and tight walls, roof, floor, windows and doors. It shall have ample and suitable facilities for light and ventilation, and such room shall be so situated or arranged as to be completely shut off and isolated from members of the family, or other persons not authorized by the health authorities to enter such room. All furniture, bedding and other things in such room shall be kept at all times in a clean and sanitary condition.

(2)

Physician. A legally qualified physician shall be in attendance on the patient, and shall make not less than one visit to such patient each day prior to convalescence.

(3)

Nursing. The patient shall be placed and remain at all times prior to convalescence in the care of a trained nurse who shall be constant attendance.

(4)

Food drugs and supplies. The patient shall be regularly provided with proper and sufficient food, drugs, and medical supplies suited to the case.

(b)

The enumeration of the foregoing conditions shall not be held to excuse the absence or neglect of any other requirements duly made by law, ordinance or the director of public health.

(Code 1950, § 14-7; Code 1959, § 18-13)

Sec. 15-27. - Hospitalization of diseased persons, when required.

Whenever it shall appear to the director of public health that any person in this city is afflicted with any contagious disease, and that such person is not being kept, cared for, or treated in compliance with the requirements of this article, or any other requirements or restrictions imposed by law upon such person, or that such person neglects, fails or refuses to observe and obey any law for such cases made and provided, it shall become the duty of the director of public health, and he is hereby authorized and directed to proceed to remove, or cause to be removed, at once such afflicted person to the contagious diseases annex of the county and city hospital or to any other public hospital which may be established by ordinance of this city for the purpose of treating contagious diseases, where such afflicted person shall be kept, cared for and treated under the direction of the director of public health and at public expense. At the option of the patient, he may be removed to any other hospital willing to receive the patient, and, in the option of the director of public health, able and willing to provide the required isolation, care and treatment.

(Code 1950, § 14-8; Code 1959, § 18-14)

Sec. 15-28. - Removal of diseased persons.

No person shall remove a smallpox or cholera patient or person suffering with any disease, without the consent of the director of public health or his assistants. Such person may, however, be removed to the hospital, pest house or such other place as the director of public health may designate.

(Code 1950, § 14-10; Code 1959, § 18-15)

Sec. 15-29. - Tampering with notices of presence of disease.

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cause to be removed from any house, wall, fence, or other place, any placard, bill or other notice announcing the existence of a contagious disease within or upon the premises; Provided, the director of public health may by written order permit the removal of such placard, bill or notice.

(Code 1950, § 14-11; Code 1959, § 18-16)

Sec. 15-30. - Circulation of false rumors of disease.

It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the city falsely or willfully or wantonly to circulate or cause to be circulated any report to the effect that any contagious or infectious disease exists in the city.

(Code 1950, § 14-12; Code 1959, § 18-17)

Secs. 15-31—15-40. - Reserved.