As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A person who harbors the pathogenic organisms
of a communicable disease but who does not show clinical evidence
of the disease or has not shown such evidence for a specified period
of time.
A person to whom epidemiological evidence points
as the source of one or more cases, or who refuses to submit specimens
of his bodily discharges to the Board for examination.
A person who is reported to the Board as being
a carrier by the health authorities of any other municipalities.
An illness due to an infectious agent or its toxic products,
which is transmitted directly or indirectly to a well person from
an infected person, animal or arthropod or through the agency of an
intermediate host or vector or the inanimate environment.
The time or times during which the etiologic agent may be
transferred directly or indirectly from an infected person to another
person or from an infected animal to man.
A person or animal known to have been in such an association
with an infected person or animal as to have had the opportunity of
acquiring the infection.
A person who lives in the same premises as a case or carrier.
The separation, for the period of communicability, of infected
persons or animals from other persons or animals in such places and
under such conditions as will prevent the direct or indirect transmission
of the infectious agent from infected persons or animals to other
persons or animals who are susceptible or who may spread the disease
to others.
The limitation of freedom of movement of persons or animals
who have been exposed to a communicable disease for a period of time
equal to the longest usual incubation period of the disease in such
manner as to prevent effective contact with those not so exposed.
Quarantine may be complete or, as defined below, it may be modified,
or it may consist merely of surveillance or segregation.
SEGREGATIONThe separation or special control or observation of one or more persons or animals from other persons or animals to facilitate the control of a communicable disease.
MODIFIED QUARANTINEA selected partial limitation of freedom of movement determined on the basis of differences in susceptibility or danger of disease transmission, which is designed to meet particular situations. Modified quarantine includes, but is not limited to, the exclusion of children from school and the prohibition or restriction of those exposed to a communicable disease from engaging in particular occupations.
SURVEILLANCEThe close supervision of persons and animals exposed to a communicable disease without restriction of their movements.
Any communicable disease declared reportable by regulation;
any unusual or group expression of illness which, in the opinion of
the Board, may be a public health emergency; noncommunicable diseases
and conditions for which the Board may authorize reporting to provide
data and information which, in the opinion of the Board, are needed
in order to carry out effectively those programs of the Board designed
to protect and promote the health of the residents of this Borough
or to determine the need for the establishment of such programs.
A.
The Board hereby declares the following communicable
diseases, unusual outbreaks of illness, noncommunicable diseases and
conditions to be reportable:
Actinomycosis
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Animal bites
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Anthrax
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Brucellosis (undulant fever)
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*Chancroid
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Chicken pox (varicella), occurring in persons
15 years of age or older
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Cholera
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Diarrhea of the newborn
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Diphtheria, carriers
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Dysentery, amoebic (amebiasis)
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Dysentery, bacillary (shigellosis)
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Encephalitis
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Primary
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Arthropod-borne viral
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Other infections, identified by name of etiologic
agent
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Secondary, as a complication of other infections
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Food poisoning
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Staphylococcus intoxication
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Botulism
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German measles (rubella)
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*Gonococcal infection (gonorrhea)
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Gonococcal urethritis (gonorrhea)
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Gonococcal vulvovaginitis of children
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Ophtalmia neonatorum
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Gonococcal conjunctivitis
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*Granuloma inguinale
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Hepatitis
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Infectious, acute catarrhal jaundice
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Homologous serum jaundice
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Histoplasmosis
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Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
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Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
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*Lymphogranuloma venereum
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Malaria
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Measles (rubella)
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Meningococcal infection
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Meningitis
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Meningococcemia
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Mononucleosis, infectious
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Mumps
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Ophthalmia neonatorum
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Plague
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Poisoning by drugs or toxic agents
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Poliomyelitis
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Paralytic
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Nonparalytic
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Psittacosis
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"Q" Fever
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Rabies
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Relapsing fever, louse-borne
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Rickettsial pox
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Salmonellosis (cases, carriers or asymptomatic)
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Smallpox (variola)
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Streptococcal infections
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Streptococcal sore throat with rash
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Streptococcal sore throat without rash
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Puerperal infections
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Erysipelas
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*Syphilis, all stages
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Tetanus
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Toxoplasmosis
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Tuberculosis, all forms
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Tularemia
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Typhoid fever (cases, carriers or asymptomatic)
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Typhus fever
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Epidemic or classical type (louse-borne)
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Flea-borne endemic typhus fever
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Whooping cough
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Yellow fever
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*See § 302-10A(2).
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B.
The occurrence of any unusual disease or group expression
of illness which may be of public concern, whether or not it is known
to be of communicable nature, shall be reported to the Health Officer.
C.
Any bite or injury inflicted by any animal susceptible to rabies shall be reported to the Board as provided under Article X of this chapter.
D.
Such noncommunicable diseases and conditions for which
reports are needed to enable this Board to determine and employ the
most efficient and practical means to protect and to promote the health
of the people by the prevention and control of such diseases shall
be reportable. Reporting of these diseases shall be requested to supply
statistical data needed for specific studies and research projects
approved by the Board.
A.
Communicable diseases.
(1)
Every physician who treats or examines any person
who is suffering from or is suspected of having a communicable disease,
or any person who is suspected of being a carrier or who is infected
asymptomatically, shall make a prompt report of the disease or condition
to this Board. The report shall be on a standard-type report form,
or cases may be reported by telephone. The report shall state the
name of the disease, the name of the patient or carrier, the address
at which the patient or carrier may be located, the date of the onset
of the disease and the name of the householder in whose family the
disease may have occurred.
(2)
Any physician who treats a patient with a reportable
communicable disease which is classified as a venereal disease shall
report the case in the manner prescribed. The report shall state the
name and stages of the disease, the name, age, sex and race of the
patient and the address at which the patient may be located. These
reports shall be mailed in sealed envelopes to the Pennsylvania Department
of Health, as required by law.
(3)
Any person who is in charge of a laboratory in which a laboratory examination of any specimen derived from the human body yields microscopical, cultural, immunological, serological or other evidence, significant from a public health standpoint, of the presence of any one of the diseases listed in § 302-9A shall report promptly such findings to the Health Officer, as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Health, as required by law. The report shall state the name and address of the person from whom the specimen was obtained and the name and address of the physician for whom such examination or test was made. This regulation shall not apply when a reported case of tuberculosis is hospitalized for treatment for tuberculosis and specimens are examined for that disease.
(4)
School nurses shall report to school administrators
the presence of a suspected communicable disease in schoolchildren.
Any unusual increase in the number of absentees among the schoolchildren
shall be reported to the Board.
(5)
Reporting by heads of institutions. Superintendents of hospitals or other persons in charge of any institution for the treatment of disease or of any institution maintaining dormitories and living rooms or of an orphanage shall notify the Board upon the occurrence in or admission to such institution of a reportable disease and shall thereafter follow the advice and instructions of the health authorities controlling such disease, but such notification shall not relieve physicians of their duty to report, in the manner set forth in Subsection A(1) and (2), cases which they may treat or examine in any such institution.
(6)
Reporting by householders and others. Any householder,
proprietor of a hotel or rooming or lodging or boarding house or any
other person having knowledge or suspicion of any communicable disease
shall report such knowledge or suspicion promptly to this Board.
(7)
Revision of diagnosis by attending physician. No diagnosis
of a disease for which isolation or quarantine is required shall be
revised without the concurrence of a medical member of this Board.
B.
Unusual outbreak or occurrence of illness. Any person
having knowledge of the occurrence of any unusual disease or group
expression of illness which may be of public concern, whether or not
it is known to be of a communicable nature, shall report this promptly
to the Board.
C.
Report of animal bites or other trauma caused by animals. Anyone who treats a patient who has received a bite or a laceration caused by an animal shall report such injury to the Board, in accordance with the provisions of Article X of this chapter.
D.
Noncommunicable diseases. Any person in charge of
an institution for the treatment of disease shall be authorized, upon
request of the Board, to make a report of such disease and conditions
other than communicable diseases for which the Board has approved
a specific study to enable this Board to determine and employ the
most efficient and practical means to protect and to promote the health
of the people by the prevention and control of such diseases and conditions.
The report shall be made upon forms prescribed by this Board and shall
be transmitted to this Board.
A.
Establishment of isolation and quarantine. When the initiation of isolation of patients ill with any communicable disease or the quarantine of susceptible contacts is required as provided by Subsection B, the Health Officer shall cause the same to be done promptly following receipt of the report.
B.
The isolation of patients or the quarantine of susceptible
contacts is required for the following diseases:
(5)
Diarrhea of the newborn, epidemic.
(a)
Isolation: The infected infant shall be placed
in isolation until discharged from the hospital.
(b)
Quarantine: On occurrence in the nursery of
the case of diarrhea of the newborn, all infants in the nursery shall
be placed under observation quarantine, and no infant shall be admitted
until all exposed infants have been discharged, the nursery thoroughly
cleaned and the Health Officer has approved the removal of the observation
quarantine.
(6)
Diphtheria.
(a)
Isolation until cultures from nose and throat
taken on two occasions not less than 24 hours apart fail to show diphtheria
bacilli. Local or general application of antibiotic or chemotherapeutic
agents invalidates the usefulness of bacteriological examinations.
Where termination of isolation by culture is impractical, isolation
may end with fair safety 14 days after onset. Where practical, a virulence
test should be made if throat cultures are reported positive three
weeks or more after onset. Isolation may be terminated if the microorganism
reported present is proved avirulent.
(b)
Quarantine: All intimate contacts, especially
young children, should be kept under surveillance if found to be carriers
or suffering from nasal discharges or sore throat. Adult contacts
whose occupations involve handling of food or close association with
children should be excluded from those occupations until shown not
to be carriers by bacteriological examination. A chronic carrier of
diphtheria bacilli may be placed under quarantine until cultures from
the nose and throat on four successive occasions not less than 24
hours apart are negative or the cultures are found to be avirulent.
When appropriate medical and surgical measures to eliminate the carrier
state fail, the Health Officer may release the carrier from quarantine
when such release is not detrimental to the public health. A chronic
diphtheria carrier is defined as any person who has been free from
the symptoms of diphtheria for four weeks or longer and who harbors
virulent diphtheria bacilli.
(7)
Dysentery, amoebic.
(a)
No isolation. Exclusion of patient from food
preparation, processing, handling and serving. Release from supervision
is to be by the Health Officer only after submission of not less than
six consecutive negative feces specimens collected at intervals of
not less than one week.
(b)
No quarantine of contacts.
(8)
Dysentery, bacillary.
(a)
Isolation in flyproof room until recovery or
death of the patient, provided that the physician shall not certify
to recovery until the patient's temperature has been normal for at
least seven consecutive days. Rigid personal precautions by attendants.
(b)
Quarantine: Contacts should not be employed
as food handlers during period of contact nor before repeated negative
feces cultures are obtained.
(19)
Plague.
(a)
Isolation: Hospitalize all patients if practical;
reasonable aseptic precautions for patients with bubonic plague, and
isolation for primary pneumonic plague or patients developing plague
pneumonia.
(21)
Psittacosis.
(a)
Isolation important during febrile acute stages.
Nurses caring for patients with a cough should wear adequate gauze
masks.
(23)
Relapsing fever, louse-borne.
(24)
Salmonellosis (cases, carriers or asymptomatic).
includes paratyphoid fever A.S. paratyphi A, paratyphoid fever B.S.
paratyphi B, paratyphoid fever C.S. hirschfeldii.
(a)
Isolation in flyproof room until recovery or
death of patient.
(b)
Quarantine: A household contact who is a food
handler shall be excluded from work until at least two successive
feces and urine specimens taken no less than 24 hours apart, either
after termination of isolation of the case or after he ceases to live
in the same premises as the case, are examined by a laboratory approved
by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and found free of Salmonella
paratyphi A or B. All household contacts shall be under surveillance
until three successive negative reports on specimens of feces and
urine taken not less than five days apart nor earlier than 14 days
after the last dose of any antibiotic or a chemotherapeutic drug effective
against the etiologic organism.
(25)
Smallpox (variola).
(a)
Isolation in screened wards or rooms until complete
cicatrization of all lesions.
(b)
Quarantine: All persons living or working on
the same premises as the person who develops smallpox or otherwise
having intensive exposure shall be considered contacts and shall be
promptly vaccinated or revaccinated or quarantined for 16 days from
last exposure. If such contacts are considered immune by reasons of
prior attack or a successful revaccination within the previous three
years, they shall be kept under surveillance until the height of the
reaction to the recent vaccination has passed. If the contact is not
considered immune, they shall be kept under surveillance until 16
days have passed since last contact. Any rise of temperature during
surveillance calls for prompt isolation until smallpox can be excluded.
(26)
Streptococcal infections, hemolytic (sore throat
with or without rash).
(a)
Isolation, in order of preference: in a single
room, cubicle or small ward; in uncomplicated cases: until clinical
recovery or not less than seven days from onset. Isolation may be
terminated after 24 hours of adequate and effective therapy maintained
under medical supervision.
(b)
No quarantine for household contacts, except
that those persons of the household who are food and milk handlers
or milk producers shall not be permitted to work for seven days; provided,
however, that they may continue to work if adequate and effective
prophylactic therapy is maintained under medical supervision. Children
under 18 years of age shall be excluded from school for seven days,
unless adequate and effective prophylactic therapy is maintained under
medical supervision.
(27)
Streptococcal puerperal fever (puerperal septicemia).
(28)
Erysipelas.
(30)
Trachoma.
(a)
Isolation: Children shall be excluded from school
if active lesions exist and adequate preventive measures are practical.
(31)
Tuberculosis.
(a)
Isolation:
[1]
Any person having tuberculosis in its communicable
stage shall be isolated.
[2]
Isolation for tuberculosis shall be established
at the usual residence of the patient suffering from tuberculosis
whenever facilities for adequate isolation of such infectious patient
are available in the home and where the patient will accept such isolation.
[3]
If isolation for tuberculosis cannot be accomplished
or maintained at the usual residence of the patient, and whenever
in the opinion of the Health Officer such person is a menace to others
by reason of his habits or his neglect of treatment or of the measures
designated to protect others from infection, such isolation shall
be enforced by removing the patient to an institution in this commonwealth
determined by the Secretary of Health to be suitable for the care
and treatment of such cases.
(b)
Quarantine or commitment may be established at the discretion of Health Officer in accordance with provisions of Article IV of this chapter.
[1]
Contacts in themselves shall not be considered
as public health problems unless proven by examination to be active
infectious cases of tuberculosis.
[2]
All household contacts and other intimate contacts
shall be required under these regulations to have a tuberculin test
or chest X-ray, or both, at periodic intervals. If lesions suspicious
of tuberculosis are found on X-ray of contacts, such laboratory studies
shall be done as are necessary to determine whether or not such patients
represent public health problems.
(32)
Typhoid fever.
(a)
Isolation in screened room until recovery or
death of patient, provided that the physician shall not certify to
recovery until the patient's temperature has been normal for at least
seven consecutive days.
(b)
Quarantine. A household contact who is a food
handler shall be excluded from work until two successive feces and
urine specimens, taken no less than 24 hours apart, either after termination
of isolation of the case or after he ceases to live in the same premises
as the case, are examined by a laboratory approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Health. All household contacts shall be under surveillance
until at least three consecutive negative reports on specimens of
feces and urine are taken not less than five days apart nor earlier
than 14 days after the last dose of any antibiotic or chemotherapeutic
drug effective against the etiologic organism.
C.
Modified isolation. If the disease is one in which
only a modified isolation is required, the Health Officer shall issue
appropriate instructions, prescribing the isolation technique to be
followed. The isolation technique will depend upon the disease.
D.
Isolation in hospitals.
(1)
Cases of communicable disease may be treated in any hospital, provided that the patient is isolated in a proper private room, cubicle or in a ward where none but patients with the same disease are segregated, and further provided that the isolation technique is observed. The requirements of the rule related to isolation for a specific disease which the patient experienced, as described in Subsection B, must be observed while the patient is hospitalized. However, the removal of the patient to his home during the convalescent period of isolation may be permitted, provided that the requirements in Subsection G of this section are observed.
(2)
Nurses and attendants caring for patients with communicable
diseases, where possible, shall not come in contact with obstetrical
patients or maternity services until a period of time equal to the
incubation period of the particular disease has elapsed since their
last contact with such patients.
E.
Quarantine: If the disease is one requiring quarantine
of the contacts in addition to isolation of the case, the Health Officer
shall determine the contacts who are subject to quarantine, specify
the place to which they shall be quarantined and issue appropriate
instructions. He shall ensure that provisions are made for the medical
observation of such contacts as frequently as necessary during quarantine.
F.
Placarding: Whenever, in any particular instance,
the Health Officer is unable to enforce such isolation or quarantine
as is required for the protection of the public health and deems it
necessary to use placarding, such placards may be utilized only if
the specific use is approved by this Board.
G.
Conditions under which patients subject to isolation
or quarantine may be removed or transported are as follows:
(1)
A person under isolation or quarantine may be removed
to another dwelling or a hospital only with the permission of the
Health Officer.
(2)
Removal of a patient under isolation or quarantine
from or to this Borough may be made only with the permission of the
Health Officer and the health authorities of the other jurisdiction
concerned.
(3)
Transportation of a person under isolation or quarantine
shall be made under private conveyance or as otherwise ordered by
the Health Officer, due care being taken to prevent the spread of
the disease.
(4)
Isolation or quarantine shall be immediately resumed
upon arrival of the patient at the point of destination for the period
of time required for the specific disease.
H.
Release from isolation and quarantine: The Health Officer may order a release from isolation or quarantine when he is satisfied that compliance with the provisions of Article IV of this chapter has been mot.
I.
Control of communicable disease in schoolchildren:
(1)
The duration of the period of exclusion from school
for specified diseases. The duration of the period of exclusion from
school for any person who has or has had one of the diseases specified
below is declared to be as follows:
(a)
Chicken pox, seven days.
(b)
German measles, until disappearance of rash.
(c)
Measles, six days from onset of rash.
(d)
Mumps, until swelling can no longer be seen
or felt.
(e)
Respiratory streptococcal infections, including
scarlet fever, if no physician is in attendance of the patient, not
less than seven days from onset.
(f)
Whooping cough, four weeks from onset.
(2)
Readmission to school after specified diseases: Teachers and others in charge of public, private, parochial or other schools or colleges shall not readmit, before the expiration of the exclusion period as stated in Subsection I(1), any person who has been absent because of an illness from chicken pox, German measles, measles, mumps, respiratory streptococcal infection and scarlet fever and whooping cough. In the case of respiratory streptococcal infection, the attending physician shall certify to the Health Officer as to the patient's recovery, and the Health Officer shall grant permission for readmission to school when the requirements of the regulations for respiratory streptococcal infection have been fulfilled.
(3)
Exclusion from school of pupils showing symptoms of
a communicable disease: Every teacher, principal, superintendent or
other person or persons in charge of any public, private, parochial
or other school or college shall immediately exclude any person showing
an unusual skin eruption or having soreness of the throat, symptoms
of whooping cough or diseases of the eyes, and shall report the fact
of such exclusion and the reasons therefor to the Health Officer,
together with the name and address of the person excluded.
(4)
Readmission to school of pupils excluded because of
a suspected communicable disease: No person excluded from any public,
private, parochial or other school or college on account of having
been suspected of having a disease for which isolation is required
shall be readmitted until he presents a certificate from a physician
stating that the condition for which the person was excluded was not
communicable or until he presents a certificate from the Health Officer
indicating release from isolation. No person who has been absent from
school by reason of having had, or because of residing at premises
where there has been, a disease for which isolation is required shall
be readmitted to school except with the permission of the Health Officer,
whether or not there has been a physician in attendance or whether
or not isolation has been established in the household.
(5)
School attendance by pupils with infectious conditions
or acute contagious conjunctivitis prohibited: No person suffering
from acute contagious conjunctivitis, impetigo contagiosa, pediculosis
capitis, pediculosis corporis, scabies, tinea circinata, tonsillitis,
trachoma or favus shall be permitted to attend any public, private,
parochial or other school or college. The teachers of public schools
and the principals, superintendents or other persons in charge of
private, parochial or other schools or colleges shall exclude any
such persons from said schools, such exclusion to continue until the
case has recovered, provided that any person suffering from ringworm
of the scalp caused by microsporon audouini shall be readmitted to
school if such person is under treatment.
(6)
Readmission to school of pupils recovered from infectious
conditions or acute contagious conjunctivitis: No person who has been
excluded or has been absent from any school by reason of having or
being suspected of having had acute contagious conjunctivitis, impetigo
contagiosa, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, scabies, tinea
circinata, tonsillitis, trachoma or favus shall be readmitted except
with a certificate of recovery from a physician.
J.
Laboratory examinations to determine release from
isolation or quarantine: Whenever the provisions of this chapter provide
for the submission of laboratory specimens to be examined for the
presence of microorganisms in order to determine the duration of isolation
or quarantine or to determine the eligibility of the release therefrom,
such specimens shall be examined in a laboratory of the Pennsylvania
Department of Health or in a laboratory approved by the Secretary
of Health for examination of such specimens.
A.
Person in custody: Any person taken into custody and
charged with any crime involving lewd conduct or a sex offense or
any person to whom the jurisdiction of a juvenile court attaches may
be examined for a venereal disease by a qualified physician appointed
by this Board.
B.
Diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease: Upon
approval of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, this Board may
undertake to share the expense of furnishing free diagnosis and free
treatment of venereal disease or this Board may take over entirely
or in part the furnishing of free diagnosis and free treatment of
venereal disease with or without financial assistance from the Pennsylvania
Department of Health.
C.
Persons refusing to submit to treatment for venereal
diseases, tuberculosis or other communicable disease:
(1)
If the Health Officer finds that any person who is
infected with venereal disease, tuberculosis or other communicable
disease in a communicable state refuses to submit to treatment approved
by the Board, the Health Officer may cause the person to be isolated
in an appropriate institution designated by the Board for safekeeping
and treatment until the disease has been rendered noncommunicable.
(2)
The Health Officer may file a petition in the Court
of Common Pleas of Montgomery County to commit such person to an appropriate
institution designated by this Board for safekeeping and treatment
until such time as the disease has been rendered noncommunicable.
A.
Psittacosis and importation of live wild rabbits,
hares or rodents:
(1)
All dealers who purchase, sell, exchange or give away
any bird of the psittacine family shall keep a record for a period
of two years of each such transaction. This record shall include the
number of birds purchased, sold, exchanged or given away, the date
of the transaction and the name and address of the person from whom
purchased or to whom sold or given away or with whom exchanged. All
records herein prescribed shall be available for official inspection
at all times.
(2)
Each dealer shall report to the Health Officer any
illness or deaths among birds in his possession or consigned to him
or in any way passing through his hands.
(3)
The Health Officer shall verify compliance with these
regulations at least every six months.
(4)
No person who sells, exchanges, gives away or otherwise
disposes of psittacine birds shall procure such birds from any source
where psittacosis is known to exist.
(5)
The occurrence of a case of psittacosis in the human
or avian family shall be due cause for the Health Officer to make
an epidemiologic investigation to determine the source of infection.
Psittacine birds or other birds found on the same premises where the
case of human or avian psittacosis is found shall be quarantined and/or
destroyed as prescribed by the Health Officer. Aviaries, pet shops
or other sources from which such birds were procured shall be quarantined
until it can be determined that psittacosis does not exist in such
sources. When such quarantine is not able to be maintained, the Health
Officer may seize and destroy the bird or birds for which quarantine
was ordered. Bodies of birds so destroyed shall be immersed in a disinfectant
solution and the carcasses burned before the feathers dry.
(6)
All persons who breed, raise, sell or exchange psittacine
birds shall register annually with the Board of Health on forms prescribed
by the Board for such purpose.
(7)
No person shall bring, cause to be brought or transport
any live wild rabbit, hare or rodent into this Borough unless such
animal or animals are accompanied with a permit issued by the Pennsylvania
Department of Health or other agency authorized to issue the same
by the Department. A permit will be issued upon request, provided
the source of such animal or animals is submitted and such source
is known to be free of infection. The permit shall accompany such
animal or animals whenever brought into the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
If such animal or animals are not accompanied with a permit or if
the source of such animal or animals is not the same as that set forth
on the permit, such animal or animals shall be immediately seized
and destroyed and the means of conveyance disinfected at the owner's
expense.
B.
Gift, sale or other disposition of bedding and other
articles exposed to infection: No person shall give, lend, sell, transmit,
expose or otherwise dispose of, without previous disinfection and
a certificate from the Health Officer attesting to such disinfection,
any bedding, clothing, rags or other articles which have been exposed
to infection from tuberculosis, bubonic plague, scarlet fever, hemolytic
streptococcal sore throat, smallpox (variola, varioloid) or anthrax,
but these restrictions will not apply to the transmission of such
articles with proper precaution and permission of the Health Officer
for the purpose of having them disinfected.
C.
Lease of premises previously occupied by tuberculous
person: No person shall let any room, house or part of a house in
which there has been a person suffering from tuberculosis without
having such room, house or part of house and all articles therein
previously disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.
The keeping of a hotel, boardinghouse or apartment house shall be
deemed as letting part of a house to any person who shall be admitted
as a guest in such hotel, boardinghouse or apartment house.
D.
Burial.
(1)
Preparation for burial of bodies dead from certain
diseases: In the preparation for burial of the body of any person
who has died of anthrax, plague, cholera, diphtheria, poliomyelitis,
scarlet fever, hemolytic streptococcal sore throat, smallpox, paratyphoid
fever or other Salmonella infections, typhoid fever or bacillary or
amoebic dysentery, it shall be the duty of the undertaker or person
acting as such to disinfect thoroughly by arterial and cavity injection
with an approved disinfectant fluid, to wash the surface of the body
with an efficient germicidal solution and to plug effectively the
body orifices.
(2)
Transportation of dead human bodies by private conveyance:
The body of any person who has died from any disease of anthrax, cholera,
diphtheria, bacillary or amoebic dysentery, plague, poliomyelitis,
scarlet fever, smallpox, hemolytic streptococcal sore throat, typhoid
fever or paratyphoid fever or other Salmonella infections may be transported
by private conveyance if the body is embalmed and the surface of the
body washed with an efficient germicidal solution and the body orifices
effectively plugged or if the body is placed in a leakproof container.