Interstate Quarantine Regulations.

Date: 1894

Series: S 900 - Florida State Board of Health Record Group.

Subject files, 1875-1975.

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Interstate Quarantine Regulations.
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Article I.
Quarantinable Diseases.

(1) For the purposes of these regulations the quarantinable diseases
are cholera (cholerine), yellow fever, smallpox, typhus fever, leprosy,
and plague.
Article II.
Notification.
(1) State and municipal health officers should immediately notify
the Supervising Surgeon-General of the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service
by telegraph or by letter of the existence of any of the above-men-
tioned quarantinable diseases in their respective States or localities.
Article III.
General Regulations.
(1) Persons suffering from a quarantinable disease shall be isolated
until no longer capable of transmitting the disease to others. Persons
exposed to the infection of a quarantinable disease shall be isolated,
under observation, for such a period of time as may be necessary to
demonstrate their freedom from the disease.
All articles pertaining to such persons, liable to convey infection,
shall be disinfected as hereinafter provided.
(2) The apartments occupied by persons suffering from quarantinable
disease, and adjoining apartments when deemed infected, together with
articles therein, shall be disinfected upon the termination of the dis-
ease.
(3) Communication shall not be held with the above-named persons
and apartments, except under the directions of a duly qualified officer.
(4) All cases of quarantinable disease, and all cases suspected of
belonging to this class, shall be at once reported by the physician in
attendance to the proper authorities.
(5) No common carrier shall accept for transportation any person
suffering with a quarantinable disease, nor any infected article of cloth-
ing, bedding, or personal property.
The body of any person who has died of a quarantinable disease shall
not be transported save in hermetically sealed coffins, and by the order
of the State or local health officer.
(6) In the event of the prevalence of smallpox, all persons exposed
to the infection, who are not protected by vaccination or a previous
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