Chapter 7. To require cases of typhoid fever occurring in the District of Columbia to be reported to the health department of said District
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CHAP. 7.— An Act To require cases of typhoid fever occurring in the District of Columbia to be reported to the health department of said District. February 4, 1902.[[Public, No. 6](/us/pl/57/6).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That every physician attending District of Columbia. Typhoid fever crises to be reported.or called in to visit or examine any case of typhoid fever in the District of Columbia shall at once send to the health officer of said District certificate, in ink, signed by him, stating the name of the disease, and the name, age, sex, and color of the person suffering therefrom, and setting forth by street and number or otherwise sufficiently designaling the house, room, or other place in which said person can be found, together with such other reasonable information relating thereto as may be required by said health officer; and upon the recovery or death of such patient the physician in attendance shall, within twenty-four hours after he becomes aware of such recovery or death, forward to said health officer a similar certificate certifying thereto.
Sec. 2. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act Flue for violation.shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a line not exceeding one hundred dollars. Sec. 3. That all prosecutions under this Act shall be in the police Prosecutions.court of said District upon information brought in the name of the District of Columbia and on its behalf. Sec. 4. That all Acts and parts of Acts contrary to the provisions Repeal.of this Act, or inconsistent therewith, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, February 4, 1902.