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(3) The term "board of health" or "local board of health " means and includes the local board, department, or commissioner of health, or other body or official of a municipality, by whatever title the same may be known, having the usual powers and duties of the board of health of a municipality.

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(4) The term "health officer" or "local health officer means and includes the health officer, or other officer of a municipality, by whatever title he may be known, having the usual powers and duties of the health officer of a municipality.

This regulation as amended shall take effect August 1, 1918. (Am'd March 20, 1917 and June 25, 1918.)

Regulation 2. Violations declared to be misdemeanors. Any violation of any provision of this code is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both. This regulation shall take effect throughout the state of New York, except in the city of New York, on the first day of March, 1916. (Am'd Jan. 22, 1916.)

Regulation 3. When to take effect. Every regulation in this chapter, unless otherwise specifically stated, shall take effect on the first day of May, 1914.

Regulation 1.

CHAPTER II

Communicable Diseases

Communicable diseases designated.

municable For the purpose of this code the term communicable

diseases designated

disease shall be held to include the following diseases, which are hereby declared to be communicable through the conveyance of infective organisms. The communicable diseases, for convenience of administration, are divided into two groups:

A. Anthrax

Chickenpox
Cholera, Asiatic

Diphtheria (membranous croup)

Dysentery, amoebic and bacillary

Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis

Epidemic influenza

Epidemic or streptococcus (septic) sore throat
German measles

Glanders

Measles

Mumps

(suppurative conjunctivitis Ophthalmia neonatorum

of the new-born)

Para-typhoid fever

Plague

Pneumonia

a. acute lobar

b. bronchial or lobular

Poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis)

Puerperal septicaemia

Rabies

Scarlet fever

Smallpox

Tetanus

Trachoma

Tuberculosis

Typhoid fever
Typhus fever
Whooping cough

B. Syphilis

Gonorrhoea
Chancroid

This regulation as amended shall take effect Oct. 14, 1918. (Am'd Mar. 20, 1917, May 17, 1917, Dec. 27, 1917, June 25, 1918, August 1, 1918 and October 11, 1918.)

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Regulation 2. Reporting cases of communicable dis- municable ease by physicians. It shall be the duty of every phy- physicians

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Reporting by physcians

Reporting persons bitten by rabid animals

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sician to report to the local health officer, within whose jurisdiction such patient is, the full name, age and address of every person affected with a communicable disease enumerated in regulation 1, group A, together with the name of the disease, within twenty-four hours from the time the case is first seen by him. Such report shall be by telephone or telegram, when practicable, and shall also be made in writing, except that the written notice may be omitted with the approval of the state commissioner of health in cities of the first class. (Amended January 27, 1916,

and June 25, 1918, in effect August 1, 1918.)

Regulation 2-a. Submitting specimens for laboratory examination in cases of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chanroid. It shall be the duty of every physician to submit promptly to the laboratory of the state department of health, or to a laboratory approved by the state commissioner of health for this purpose, such specimens for laboratory examination and such data relating thereto, as may be prescribed in the special rules and regulations issued by the state commissioner of health, from every person affected with any one of the communicable diseases mentioned in regulation 1, group B, or from any person in whom suspicion of such disease exists. (Added June 25, 1918, in effect August 1, 1918.)

Regulation 2-b. Reporting cases of persons bitten by a rabid animal. It shall be the duty of every physician or other person to report to the local health officer within whose jurisdiction such person is, the full name, age and address of every person who has been bitten (a) by a rabid animal, (b) by an animal suspected of being rabid, within twenty-four hours from the time when such fact comes to his knowledge.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to transmit to transmit promptly these reports to the state department of reports health.

This regulation shall take effect June 1, 1917. (Added May 17, 1917.)

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Regulation 3. Reporting cases of communicable dis- Reporting ease in institutions. It shall be the duty of the super municable intendent or person in charge of every hospital, other disease institution, or dispensary, to report to the local health tions officer, within whose jurisdiction any such hospital, other institution, or dispensary is located, the full name, age, and address of every person under his charge affected with a communicable disease, together with the name of the disease, and the name and address of the person or organization in whose care the case was immediately prior to admission or by whom the case was referred, within twenty-four hours from the time when the case first develops or is first admitted to such hospital, other institution, or dispensary. Such report shall be by telephone or telegram, when practicable, and shall also be made in writing.

This regulation shall take effect throughout the state of New York, except in the city of New York, on the first day of May, 1915. (Am'd Mar. 4, 1915.) Regulation 4. Reporting cases of disease presumably Teacher communicable in schools. When no physician is in at- disease tendance, it shall be the duty of every teacher to presumably comreport forthwith to the principal or person in charge municable of the school all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any child in such school who appears to be affected with a disease presumably communicable. It shall be the duty of the principal or person in charge Principal of every school to report forthwith to the local health to health officer all facts relating to the illness and physical officer condition of any child attending such school, who appears to be affected with any disease presumably communicable, together with the name, age, and address of such child. Such child shall be at once sent home or isolated.

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Householder to report cases of

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Nurses and persons in charge of camps to report cases of disease presum

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Regulation 5. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable in private households, hotels, boarding and lodging houses. When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of the head of a private household or the proprietor or keeper of any hotel, boarding house, or lodging house, to report forthwith to the local health officer all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any person in any private household, hotel, boarding house or lodging house under his charge, who appears to be affected with any disease presumably communicable, together with the name of such person. (Am'd Sept. 18, 1914.)

Regulation 6. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable by nurses and persons in charge of camps. It shall be the duty of every visiting nurse and public health nurse and of the person in charge of any labor or other camp, having knowledge of any person affected with any disease presumably communicable, who by reason of the danger to others seems to require the attention of the public health authorities, to report at once to the local health officer, within whose jurisdiction such case occurs, all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of such affected person.

Regulation 7. Reporting cases of disease presumably communicable on vessels. It shall be the duty of the

presumably master or person in charge of any vessel lying within the jurisdiction of the state to report or cause to be reported immediately in writing to the local health officer at such ports or landings as the state commissioner of health may designate all facts relating to the illness and physical condition of any person in or on such vessel affected with any disease presumably communicable, together with the name of such affected person. This regulation shall not apply to any vessel within the jurisdiction of the health officer of the port of New York.

Regulation 8. Reporting cases of communicable disease on dairy farms by physicians. When a case of

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