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ORDINANCE 110. 9917
AN ORDINANCE TO SUPPRESS TIC SPR.Lr1D OF TUBERCULOSIS,
PROVIDING FOR EXA ,11NATION OF PERSONS TO DETM;UMIE
THE FRESENGE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN A C0120NICABLE STAGE,
PROVIDING FOR TI& ISOLATION OF INFECTIOUS CSES, AND
FOB. OTIMR PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAIM BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Whenever the City Health Officer has reasonable
grounds to believe that any person is suffering from tuberculosis
in a communicable stage, he is authorized to cause such suspect
to be apprehended by any person or persons he may designate, and
detained and examined by the necessary tests and examination,
including chest X -ray Picture of good diagnostic quality, and
sputum examinations by an approved method to ascertain the
existence of said disease and whether or not it is present in a
communicable stage and to auaranti.ne said person so examined for
a reasonable time pending determination of the outcome of the test.
SECTION 2. The City Health Officer may, when in the exercise
of his discretion he believes that the public health requires it,
co It any person engaged in the commercial handling of food or
any other person apprehended and /or examined and found afflicted
with said tuberculosis or any of them who refuses or fails to take
treatment adequate for the protection of the public health, to a
hospital or other place designated by the City Health Officer as
a place of quarantine in the State of Arkansas for such treatment
even over the objection of the person so diseased.
SECTION 3. Definition of Suspect. A suspect is defined as
one whose name has been furnished the local health authority
through reliable sources as a contact to a person who has tuber-
culosis subsequent to contact.
A. suspect would also be considered as.one who is handling
commercial food, when reliable information has been furnished the
local health authority as to coughing, spitting, and X -rays taken
which show that the person has tuberculosis.
Suspicion is interpreted broadly and is applicable to either
of tie above definitions.
SECTION 4. Quarantine for Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis in its
corm=cable stages is declared to be a communicable disease to be
quarantined whenever, in the opinion of the City Health Officer or
his medical representative, the patient is a menace to the public
health by reason of his habits or his neglect of treatment or the
methods designed to protect others from infection.
SECTIOII 5. Terminal Disinfection of Premises of Persons
Suffering from 'Tuberculosis. Disinfection prior to removal of
any quarantine and after death or removal from the premises of
any person suffering from tuberculosis shall consist of a thorough
soap and water cleansing of the sick -room or rooms and the use of
a germicidal solution on exposed surfaces. Following this clean-
sing, the room shall not be used for twenty -four (24) hours, during
which time there shall be admitted to it a maximum of light and air.
Such articles as have been used by or have been in cont -act with the
patient as lend themselves to boiling, including bed linens, shall
be boiled for one hour, or treated by other methods approved by the
Health Officer, jattresses, pillows and other articles of bedding
or clothin7 which cannot be boiled shall be exposed out of doors
to sunlight and air for one full day. The health authorities may
insist upon the destruction of such infected or ,presumably infected
objects or material as tie -protection of the public health may
require.
SECTION 6. Gift or Sale of Bedding or Other Articles Exposed
to Infection. No person shall give, lend, sell, transmit or expose
without previous disinfection and a certificate fro.. the Health
Officer attesting to such disinfection any bedding, clothing, rags
or other articles which have been exposed to infection from tuber
culosis, but these restrictions shall not apply to the transmission
of such articles with proper precaution and the permission of the
health authorities for the purpose of having them disinfected.
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SECTION 7. Lease of Premises Previousl Occupied by Tuber-
culous Person. 1110 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, -louse or part of a house -9_nd all articles
therein previousll,T disinfected to the satisfaction of the health
authorities. The keeping of a hotel, boarding house or an apart-
tent house shall be deemed as"! etting a part of a house to any
person who shall be admitted as a guest into such hotel, boarding
house or apartment house.
SECTION &. It shall be a. ni.sdemeanor for any person to
violate am of t1 e terms of this ordinance or tq fail or refuse
to remain in any hospital or place of quarantine after being
co!��zitted to such place by the C' tv Hea.lt_-- Officer as - ^rovided
in Section 2 of this ordinance. On conviction in 1- lunicipal Court
of a misdemeanor as provided in this section of this ordinance,
the persons so convicted shall be fined in a sum not less than
Twenty -*Five ($25.00) Dollars, nor more than Two Hundred C?200.00)
Dollars.
SECTION 9. If any _,art, phrase, clause, section or sub-
section of this ordinance be held to be unconstitutional or
invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The
City Council hereby declares that it would have passed the
remaining parts of this ordinance if it had known that such part,
phrase, clause, section, or sub - section thereof would be declared
unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION 10. W.TMEkS, the suppression of tuberculosis in a
communicable form in the City of Little Rock is a matter of great
public concern and directly affects the public health and welfare,
an emergency is hereby declared to exist; and this ordinance shall
be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED: September 26, 1955
ATTEST: AFB OVEDI
City Clerk i-ayor