Penalty. Section 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Order shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred (100) dollars, nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ORDINANCE NO. 87. Approved June 6, 1900. Empowering the Board of Health to Quarantine Persons, Houses, Places and Districts, when in Its Judgment it is Deemed Necessary to Prevent the Spreading of Contagious or Infectious Diseases. Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows: Section 1. The Board of Health of this City and County is hereby authorized and empowered to quarantine persons, houses, places and districts within this City and County, when in its judgment it is deemed necessary to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases. Section 2. All Orders and Ordinances and parts of Orders and Ordinances in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage. ORDINANCE NO. 1034. Approved October 27, 1903. Regulations to Prevent the Spread of Disease. Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows: Section 1. The term "contagious disease" shall include every disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, particularly cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, varicella, pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, typhus fever, measles, pneumonia and every other disease publicly declared by the Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health. As amended by Ordinance No. 1786, March 26, 1906. Section 2. Every physician must report in writing to the Board of Health within 24 hours after he has been called to attend any person affected with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, the name and place of residence of such person and the name and state of the disease. In the event of the death of any person afflicted with any such disease, the attending physician must report in writing to the Board of Health within twenty-four hours thereafter, the name and place of residence of the deceased and the specific name and type of such disease.— As amended by Ordinance No. 1786, March 26, 1906. Section 3. Every physician, and every person having the control or management of any public or private institution or dispensary, shall report in writing to the Board of Health the name, age, sex, occupation and place of residence of every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis who shall have come under his care, within one week thereafter. Section 4. Every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis, and every person in attendance upon any person so afflicted, and every person in charge of any private or public hospital or dispensary, shall observe and enforce all sanitary rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Health to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or obstruct the officers or inspectors of the Board of Health in the examination of any building or premises wherein a person is reported to be afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease. Section 6. The Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to post in a conspicuous place upon any building or premises wherein any person is afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, a notice specifying the name of such disease. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the posting of such notice or to tear down or mutilate any notice so posted by the Board of Health in or upon any building or premises. Section 7. The master or chief officer of every vessel within one-fourth of a mile of any wharf, dock, pier or any building in this City and County, and not in quarantine or within the quarantine limits, shall report daily, in writing, to the Board of Health the name of any person on such vessel afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, the name and particulars of such disease and the condition of the person afflicted therewith. Section 8. The master or chief officer of any vessel which shall arrive in this port, and every physician who practiced on such vessel, shall, immediately upon arrival, report in writing to the Board of Health, all facts concerning any person who may have been afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease during the voyage to this port, and also all the facts concerning any person or thing carried on such vessel during such voyage which, in his opinion, may endanger the public health of this City and County. Section 9. Whenever the Board of Health shall have reason to suspect the presence of an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease within any building or premises, and the physician in attendance or the head of the family refuses to permit the representative of the Board of Health to examine the person suspected of being afflicted with such disease, the Board of Health shall quarantine the premises and prevent egress and ingress from and to the same until such examination is permitted or until said Board has practiced disinfection and detention to its satisfaction. Section 10. Whenever any person residing in a hotel, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house is afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, the owner, lessee, keeper or manager of such place must immediately give notice thereof to the Board of Health. Immediately upon the receipt of such notice the Board of Health must cause an examination of the person so afflicted, and, if in its judgment it be necessary, it shall cause such hotel, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house, or any part thereof, to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in an effective manner; and the Board of Health may cause the walls thereof to be whitewashed, or any wall paper thereon to be removed or replaced; and it may cause the bedding and bedclothes used by the person so afflicted to be thoroughly cleansed, scoured and fumigated, or, if necessary, to be destroyed. Section 11. Every undertaker employed to manage the interment of any person who has died of any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease must give immediate notice thereof to the Board of Health. It shall be unlawful for any undertaker to retain, or expose or assist in the detention or exposure of the dead body of any such person unless the same be in a coffin or casket, properly sealed, or to allow any such body to be placed in a coffin or casket unless such body has been thoroughly disinfected and wrapped in a sheet saturated with a 1/500 solution of bi-chloride of mercury, and unless the coffin or casket is of metallic substance and hermetically sealed immediately after the body has been placed therein. Section 12. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove the body of any person who has died from an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease from the room in which the death occurred, except for burial or cremation; and the body of any person so dying must be interred or cremated within twenty-four (24) hours after the time of death; provided, however, that the Board of Health may by special permit, good cause appearing therefor, extend such time; but in no case shall such extension be for more than thirty-six (36) hours from the time of death. Section 13. It shall be unlawful for any person having the possession or charge of the remains of any person who shall have died of any infec tious, contagious or pestilential disease to permit such remains to be viewed by any person except the attending physician, the representatives of the Board of Health, the undertaker, and his assistants, and the immediate members of the family of the decedent, or to permit formal services to be held over such remains within the premises where the death of such person occurred, or to remove or cause to be removed the body of such deceased person from said premises to any place other than a cemetery or crematory. Section 14. It shall be unlawful for any undertaker to assist in a public or church funeral of the body of any person who has died of an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease. Section 15. It shall be unlawful for any person, without a written permit from the Board of Health to remove, or cause to be removed, any person afflicted with an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, from any building to any other building, or from any vessel to any other vessel, or to the shore, or to any public vehicle. Section 15%. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, or cause to be removed, any person afflicted with an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease from any building to any other building, or hospital, as provided in Section 15, unless said patient is wrapped in a sterile sheet. All clothing, including bed clothes and mattresses, used by the patient shall be thoroughly fumigated after patient has been removed. The interior of all ambulances or other vehicles used for the purpose of removing such patients shall be thoroughly washed with a disinfecting solution immediately following such use. As added by Ordinance No. 1987 (New Series), approved August 29, 1912. Section 16. It shall be unlawful for any person having charge or control of any person afflicted with an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, or having control of the dead body of any person who has died of any such disease, to cause or contribute to the spread of any such disease by any negligent act in the care of such sick person or such dead body, or by the needless exposure of himself in the community. Section 17. It shall be unlawful for any principal or superintendent of any public or private school, or any parent, guardian or custodian of any minor child afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, or in whose household any person is so afflicted, to permit such minor to attend any public or private school until the Board of Health shall have given its written permission therefor. Section 18. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 19. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately. ORDINANCE NO. 515. Approved June 30, 1902. Requiring the Reporting of Varicella to the Health Officer. Whereas, experience demonstrates that varioloid is frequently mistaken for varicella and many lives thereby imperiled, therefore, Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows: Section 1. Every physician practicing in this City and County shall report in writing to the Health Officer every case of varicella or chickenpox of which he may have professional knowledge, within twenty-four (24) hours after he shall be satisfied of the nature of the disease. Section 2. Any person violating the above provision shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars or imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ORDINANCE NO. 713 (New Series). Approved March 30, 1909. Providing Methods for Prevention of Spread of Communicable Diseases. Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows: Section 1. The Board of Health shall send to the superintendents, principals and teachers of all public, parochial and private schools, at least once in each school year, circulars prepared under the direction of the Health Officer, giving a description of the symptoms of the communicable diseases of children, and of the parasitic diseases of the skin, · including pediculosis, scabies and favus. · Section 2. The Board of Health, upon obtaining information as to the existence of a case of tuberculosis or pneumonia, shall send to the physician, surgeon, nurse or other person attending the case, printed circulars, giving, in clear and simple language, information concerning the communicability, dangers and methods of prevention of tuberculosis or pneumonia as the case may be, together with a request that the circulars be given to the patient or to a responsible member of his family. Section 3. The Board of Health, upon the request of a physician, surgeon, nurse or other person attending a case of tuberculosis, shall send a representative to the house of the patient to give information concerning the communicability, dangers and methods of prevention of tuberculosis. Section 4. The Board of Health, upon obtaining information as to the occurrence of a case of tuberculosis, in any tenement house, hotel, lodging house, boarding house, hospital, prison or asylum, shall send a representative to leave circulars as provided in Section 2 of this Ordinance, and to give information as provided in Section 3 of the Ordinance. Section 5. The Board of Health, upon obtaining information as to the occurrence of a case of tuberculosis of any person unable to pay for medical assistance, shall send a Sanitary Inspector or City Physician to take charge of the case, and to report the same to the Health Office. Section 6. The Board of Health shall preserve all reports upon cases of tuberculosis, and the records of the same. Section 7. The Board of Health shall once each year, or oftener, if necessary, send to every physician, surgeon and nurse, printed circulars giving a description of the most approved methods of destruction or disinfection of the discharges of persons having actinomycosis, bronchitis, cholera, cholera infantum, diphtheria, dysentery, influenza, measles, pneumonia, rubella, scarlet fever, laryngeal and pulmonary tuberculosis and typhoid fever and all contagious diseases. Section 8. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, to obstruct or interfere with the said Board of Health, or any officer, agent or employe of said Board, in the performance of any of the duties required by this Ordinance, and any person, persons, firm or corporation so obstructing or interfering with the said Board of Health or any officer, agent or employe of said Board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprison ment. Section 9. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately. ORDINANCE NO. 1896 (New Series). Approved May 28, 1912. Prohibiting the Use of a Common Towel, Such as Is Known as the "Roller- Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as Section 1. That no person, firm or corporation owning, in charge of, or in control of any lavatory or washroom in any hotel, restaurant, factory, store, office building, school, public hall, railway station or public place or building shall maintain in or about such lavatory or washroom any towel for common use, nor shall they expose for use or allow to be exposed for use any towel to be used by more than one person, such as that now known as the roller-towel. The term "common use" as used in this Ordinance shall be construed to mean for use by more than one person. Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provi sions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five (5) dollars nor more than twenty-five (25) dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than five (5) days nor more than twenty-five (25) days. Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect August 1, 1912. ORDINANCE NO. 2246 (New Series). In Effect April 18, 1913. Prohibiting the Use of the Common Drinking Cup or Common Receptacle for Drinking Water in Any Public Place, Park or Square, or in Any Public Institution, Hotel, Theater, Factory, Department or Other Store, Public Hall or Public School, or in Any Railway Station in this City and County or the Furnishing of Such Common Drinking Cup or Common Receptacle for Use of Any Such Place and Providing a Penalty for a Violation Thereof. Whereas, the use of the common drinking cup is conceded by all authorities to be a menace to the health of the residents of any community, and a source of dissemination of disease, particularly diphtheria, influenza and other contagious diseases; therefore Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows: Section 1. The use of the common drinking cup or common receptacle for drinking water in any public place, park or square, or in any public H |