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.

Sec. 10. Whenever any person residing in a hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or tenementhouse 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, lodginghouse 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 wallpaper 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.

Sec. 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.

Sec. 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, ex cept for burial or cremation; and the body of any person so dying must be interred or cremated with in twenty-four hours after the time of death; pro vided, however, that the Board of Health may by special permit, good cause appearing therefor, ex tend said time; but in no case shall such exten sion be for more than thirty-six hours from the time of death.

Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person hav ing the possession or charge of the remains of an person who shall have died of any infectious, co tagious or pestilential disease to permit such re mains to be viewed by any person except the at tending physician, the representatives of the Boar of Health, the undertaker, and his assistants, an the immediate members of the family of the de cedent, or to permit formal services to be held ove such remains within the premises where the deat of such person occurred, or to remove or cause t De removed the body of such deceased person from said premises to any place other than a cemetery c crematory.

Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful for any unde taker to assist in a public or church funeral of th body of any person who has died of an infections contagious or pestilential disease.

Sec. 15. It shall be unlawful for any perso without a written permit from the Board of Healt to remove, or cause to be removed, any perso afflicted with an infectious, contagious or pest lential disease, from any building to any oth building, or from any vessel to any other vessel, to the shore, or to any public vehicle.

Sec. 152. It shall be unlawful for any pers to remove, or cause to be removed, any person a flicted with an infectious, contagious or pestilenti disease from any building to any other building, hospital, as provided in Section 15, unless said p tient is wrapped in a sterile sheet. All clothin including bed clothes and mattresses, used by th patient shall be thoroughly fumigated after patie

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.

Sec. 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 nas 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 Dody, or by the needless exposure of himself in the community.

Sec. 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.

Sec. 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.

Sec. 19. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately.

ORDINANCE NO. 515.

(In effect June 30, 1902.)

An Ordinance requiring the Reporting of Varicella to the Health Officer.

Whereas, experience demonstrates that varioloid is frequently mistaken for varicella and rany 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 hours after he shall be satisfied of the nature of the disease.

Sec. 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 $500 or imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

ORDINANCE NO. 713. (New Series.)

(In effect 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.

Sec. 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 lan guage, 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.

Sec. 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

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concerning the communicability, dangers and methods of prevention of tuberculosis.

Sec. 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.

Sec. 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.

Sec. 6. The Board of Health shall preserve all reports upon cases of tuberculosis, and the records of the same..

Sec. 7. The Board of Health shall once each year, or oftener if necessary, send to every physician, surgeon, 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.

Sec. 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 employee 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 $500, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 9. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately.