RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Adopted and published by the Board of Health of Alcona Township, and which be strictly enforced by this Board.
VACCINATION.
Rule 1.--Every child should be vaccinated before two years of age; and this Board recommends that all persons be revaccinated as often as once in five years.
Rule 2.--All incorporated manufacturing companies within the jurisdiction of this Board shall cause each new employee to be vaccinated on entrance, unless proof is furnished of previous successful vaccination.
Rule 3.--No person shall become a member of any public school within the jurisdiction of this Board until vaccination, or furnishing a certificate from some physician that she or he has been successfully vaccinated.
RESTRICTION AND DESTRUCTION OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS MATTER.
Rule 4.--Any householder in whose dwelling there shall occur a case of cholera, yellow fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria or small-pox, shall immediately notify the Board of Health of this same, and until instructions are received from the Board, shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to infection to be removed from the house, nor shall any occupant take up residence elsewhere without the consent of the Board.
Rule 5.--Any physician who may be called to a case of any of the diseases specified in the foregoing rule shall at once report such case to this Board and receive instructions in regard thereto; and whenever there shall come under the observation of any physician such number of cases of scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, diptheria, dysentery, or cerebro-spinal meningitis as in his opinion to justify the belief that a considerable epidemic threat exists, he shall at once report the same to the Board, with such suggestions in regard thereto as may seem to him best.
Rule 6.--No person or article liable to propogate a dangerous disease shall be brought within the jurisdiction of this Board without the special consent and direction of the Board; and whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person that such person or article has been brought within such limits, he shall immediately give notice thereof to this Board, together with locations thereof.
Rule 7.--No person sick with any of the diseases specified in Rule 4, shall be removed at any time except by permission and under direction of the Board.
Rule 8.--Persons affected with any of the diseases specified in Rule 4, and all articles infected by the same, shall be immediately separated from all persons liable to contract or communicate the disease, and none but physicians, nurses, and clergymen of the family shall be allowed access to persons sick with these diseases.
Rule 9.--Persons recovering from any of the diseases specified in the preceding rules, and their nurses, shall not leave the premises till they have been thoroughly bathed, and their clothing disinfected by washing in boiling water, or heating to 250 degrees Fahr.
Rule 10.--All vessels used by such patients shall be disinfected by solution of carbolic acid or chloride of lime, then emptied, their contents buried in earth, and the vessel cleansed with boiling water.
Rule 11.--All personal clothing, bedding, towels, etc. and all articles in contact with or used by the patient, shall be washed in boiling water, or exposed to a temperature of 250 degrees Fahr.
Rule 12.--Infected feather beds, pillows, and hair matresses shall have their contents removed and disinfected by thoroughly exposing them to the fumes of burning sulphur, and ticks washed in boiling water; but no article shall be burned without the direction of the Board. Infected straw beds and excelsior matresses shall have their contents removed and buried, and their ticks washed in boiling water.
Rule 13.--These Rules shall take effect immediately after their adoption.
Adopted July 31, 1877.
A. T. Scarlet, President.
D. Mulholland, Clerk.