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ORDINANCE NO. 2216
(Published in the Salina Daily Union October 1918)
An ordinance designating veneral diseases, regulating persons hav-
ing the same and providing for 'the' suppression thereof.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the city of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. VENEREAL DISEASES DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
Syphilis, genecoecus infection and chancroid, hereinafter desig-
nated venereal diseases, are hereby recognized and declared to
be contagious and infectious, communicable and dangerous,to the
public health.
Sec. VENEREAL DISEASES TO BE REPORTED. Hereafter, each
and every physician or other practitioner of the healing art
practicing in the City of Salina, Kansas, or any superintendent
or manager of a hospital or dispensary, or any other person who
treats or examines any person suffering from or afflicted with a
venereal disease in any of its stages or manifestations, shall
report to the City Physician the existence of such disease.
All such reports shall be made in writing within forty -
eight hours after diagnosis, on blank forms approved by the State
Board of Health and obtainable from the City Physician, and shall
give the number of the case, which number shall correspond with
the serial number of the circular of instructions given to the
patient; the name and address of the patient as hereinafter required;
the type and stage of such disease; the color, the sex, the mari-
tal state, and the occupation of the person affected with .the dis-
ease; and a statement as to whether or not the nature of the occu--
pat ion or place of employment of the person afflicted with such
disease makes him or her a menace to the health of any other per-
son or persons; PROVIDED, that whenever the person making the
report will assume full responsibility for such conduct of the
person afflicted with a venereal disease as will prevent the trans-
mission -of same to others, noting in this paragraph shall be con-
strued to require the reporting of the name and address of the
person afflicted with a venereal disease. In the event that the
person making the report is unwilling to assume such responsibility,
or -shall know or suspect that a person having a veneral disease is
so conducting, or about to conduct himself or herself in such man-
ner as to expose other persons to such infection, he shall then
report the name and address of such afflicted person, together
with such other essential facts as may be required by the City
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See. 3. ,PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH VENEREAL DISEASES TO BE
GIVEN A CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION. It shall be the duty of each
and every physician'or other practitioner of the healing art
practicing in the City of Salina.,__Kansas, or any other person
who visits, attends, advises, professionally, prescribes for or
renders medical or surgical assistance to, or is consulted for
medical advice by any person having a venereal disease, to at
once give to such person a copy of this ordinance together with
a serially numbered circular of instructions, obtainable from
the City Physician and approved by the State Board of Health,
entitled, "Instructions for Preventing the Transmission of
Gonorrhoea or Syphilis," and to re -port, such fact, _in writing in
the report required to be made of such.cases..
r Sec. 4. CHANGE OF PHYSICIAN TO BE REPORTED TO PHYSICIAN
FIRST CONSULTED. When a person applies to a physician or other
person for treatment of a venereal disease, it shall be the
duty of the physician or person consulted to inquire of and
ascertain from the person seeking treatment whether such person
has theretofore consulted with or been treated by any other
physician or person, and if so, to ascertain the name and address
of the physician or person last consulted. It shall be the duty
of the applicant, -for, -treatment to furnish this information and
a refusal to do so, or falsely stating the name and address of
such physician or person -consulted shall be deemed a violation
of this ordinance. It shall be the duty ofthe physician whom
the applicant seeks to and does consult or employ to notify the
physician last consulted or employed of the change of advisers-,
such notification to be made upon a form furnished for that
purpose by the City physician. Should the physician or person
previously consulted fail to receive such notice within ten
days after the last appearance of such venereally diseased per-
son, it shall be the duty of such physician to report to the
City- Physictaxa the name and address of such venereally diseased
person.
Sec. 5. PROTECTION OF OTHERS FROM INFECTION BY VENEREALLY
DISEASED PERSONS. Upon receipt of a report of a case of venere-
al disease it shall be the duty of the City Physician to insti-
tute
such measures for the protection. of other persons from .in-
fection by such venereally diseased person as said -City Physician
is already empowered to use to prevent the spread of other con-
tagious, infectious or communicable diseases.
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Sec. -6. REPORTS TO BE CONFIDENTIAL. All information and
reports concerning persons infected with venereal diseases shall
be confidential and shall be inaccessible to the public except
insofar as publicity may attend the performance of the duty imposed
upon the City Physician by this ordinance and the rules of the
State Board of Health and haws of the State of Kansas.
Sec.
7. SUSPECTED CASES TO BE
INVESTIGATED. In
all
sus.,pec.t-
ed cases of
venereal disease in the
infectious stages,
the
City
`Physician shall immediately use every available means to determine
the person or persons so suspected of being infected are suffering
from, said diseases,, or any of them, and when ever .said diseases are
found to exist, the City Physician shall, whenever possible, ascer-
tain the sources of such infedtion. In such investigation, the City
Physician is hereby vested with full power of inspection., examination,
isolation and disinfection of all persons., places and things as pro-
vided herein.
Sec. 8. POWERS AND DUTIES OF CITY PHYSICIAN. It is hereby made
the duty of the City Physi.eian and.he is hereby directed and empow-
ered; (a) To make examinations of persons reasonably suspected
of having Syphilis in the infectious stages, or Gonococcus infection.
Owing to the prevalence of such disease. among Prostitutes, all pros-
-t itutes may be considered within the above class.
(b) To isolate persons infected with any of said diseases
whenever isolation.i.s necessary to protect the public health. In
establishing isolations the City Physician phall define the limits
of ,the area in which the persons reasonably suspected or known to
have Syphilis or Gonococcus infection and his or her immediate at-
tendant are to be isolated, and no person, other than the attending
physician, shall enter or leave the area of isolation without the
permission of the City Physician.
(c) -,In making examinations and inspections of women for the
purpose of ascertaining the existence of syphilis or gonococcus in-
fection, to appoint women physicians for said purposes where the
services of a woman physician are requested or demanded by the person
examined.
(d) In cases of quarantine or isolation, not to terminate said
quarantine or isolation until the cases have become non-infectious.
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(e) Cases of gonococcus infection_are to be regarded as
Infectious until at least two successive smears taken not less
than forty-eight hours apart fail to show gonococci.
(f) Inasmueh.as prostitution.is the most prolific source of
syphilis and gonococcus infection, the City Physician shall use
every proper means of suppressing the same, and he is hereby pro-
hibited from issuing certificates or other evidence of freedom
from veneral diseases to such persons.
(g) --To keep all records of said inspection and examination
from public inspection, and to make every reasonable effort to
keep secret the identity of those affected by venereal disease,
control measures, as far as may be consistent with the protection
of the public health.
,Sec.. 9. DETENTION HOSPITAL. It shall be the duty of the
City Physician to use only such building or buildings for.quaran-
tine purposes under this ordinance as shall be first provided or
accepted by the City Council, provided however, that the State
Indmstrial Farm; for -Women. at Leavenworth may be used for such
purposes.
Sec. 10. QUARANTINE.. .Whenever it is necessary for the pro-
tection of the public health that persons infected with venereal
diseases be quarantined, the City Physician shall quarantine such
diseased persons in said detention hospital or at said Industrial
Farm, and cause to be administered to such persons a proper course
of treatment.
Sec. 11. BOND OR CASH GUARANTY IN LIEU OF QUARANTINE.
In lieu of isolation or quarantine, any person infected with any
of said diseases may be released upon bond as herein provided. Such
persons shall make written application therefor to the City Physi-
cian which application must be made under oath and must state that
the applicant is not a prostitute. .Such application shall be ac-
companied by a certificate signed by the Chief of Police, and the
police Judge, that the applicant is nota prostitute. The applicant
ahall then file with the City Treasurer a bond in the penal sum
of One Thousand Dollars ($10000.00), conditioned that the applicant
will not permit or perform any act which might or would infect or
expose to infection any other person; will continue proper mediacal
treatment until cured and will faithfully observe all rules, regu-
lations and requirements of said City Physician, to protect the pub -
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against infection or contagion. Said bond shall run to the City
of Salina,and shall .have one or more sureties, to be approved by
the City Clerk; provided, that a cash guaranty in a like amount
may: be accepted in lieu of such undertaking. Before any person
.is released -from any such bond as., cured a final. examination and
approval by the City! ,Physician .Austt be secured
Sec. 12. SPREAD OF VENEREAL DISEASES UNLAWFUL. It shall
be unlawful- for any person to inoculate any other person with any
of the diseases (venereal) named in Section 19 hereof,.and it
shall be unlawful for any person to perform or commit any act which
exposes any other person to inoculation of or infection with any
of the said diseases .
Sec. 13. DRUGGIST TO KEEP RECORD OF SALES OF DRUGS FOR
VENEREAL DISEASES. Any druggist or other person who sells any
drug, compound, specific or preparation of any kind used for the
cure of any of said venereal diseases shall keep a record of the
name, address and sex of the person making such perchase, a copy
of said record shall be mailed each week to the City, .Physician.
Sec, 14.. OBSTRUCTING CITY PHYSICIAN. It shall be unlawful
for. any person to obstruct said C.it.y. Physician in the .pefrformance
of his duties herein required.
Sec. 15. That for the purpose of effectually carrying out
the terms and provisions of this ordinance that the Mgyor of said
City shall appoint some reputable physician, whose appointment shall
be confirmed by the -Council, to act as City Physician and who shall
in the performance of his duties.comply with all of the provisions
of this ordinance.
Sec. 16. Such appointment, so made as aforesaid shall expire
on the 15th day of May, 1919,
and thereafter, on or before the 15th
of May, a City Physician shall be appointed each for a term of one
year, which said appointment shall be confirmed by the Council of
the City of Salina, Kansas.
Sec, 17. That the City Physician shall receive as full com-
pensation for his services under this ordinance the sum of Ten
(10.00) Dollars for each -person examined under the provisions of
this ordinance.
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Sec. 18. VIOLATIONS. Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not less
than $50.00 nor more than $100.00, or by imprisonment for a period
of not to exceed six months, or by both fine and imprisonment."
sec. 19. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force and effect from and after its publication once in the Salina
Daily Union.
(SEAL)
Attest:
Passed and approved, October 7th, 1918.
Chas-.- E. Banker
City Clerk.
STATE OF KANSAS Y
) SS.
COUNTY OF SALINE )
Edd Mathews,
Mayor.
I, Chas. E. Banker., City Clerk of the city of
Salina, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 2216, passed by the Coun-
cil and approved by the Mayor of the city of Salina, Kansas,
October 7th, 1918; and a record of the vote on its final adoption
is found on PagelQ of ,journal No. 9. Said ordinance was published
in the Salina Daily Union October 1918.
City Clerk.
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