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ARTICLE 2: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Sec. 72. Quarantine Powers.
Sec. 73. Quarantine and/or Examination for Venereal Disease.
Sec. 77. Prevention of Spread of Disease.
Sec. 82. Prevention of Spread of Communicable Diseases.
Sec. 87. Removal of Persons Afflicted With Contagious Diseases.
Sec. 92. Rodent Control.
Sec. 98. Tuberculosis.
Sec. 103. Prohibiting Importation and Sale of Ground Squirrels.
Sec. 104. Penalty.
SEC. 72. QUARANTINE POWERS.
The Department of Public Health of this City and County is hereby authorized and empowered to quarantine persons, houses, places and districts within this City and County, when in its judgment it is deemed necessary to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases.
SEC. 73. QUARANTINE AND/OR EXAMINATION FOR VENEREAL DISEASE.
(a) The Director of Public Health, or his duly authorized deputy, is hereby authorized and directed to quarantine and/or examine any person of either sex whom he has reasonable grounds to believe is afflicted with a venereal disease and is likely to expose others thereto.
(b) Owing to the prevalence of such diseases among sex offenders, the arrest of any person of either sex for (1) vagrancy involving a sex offense, prostitution, being a keeper, inmate, employee, or frequenter of a house of ill fame, prostitution, or assignation, being a lewd or dissolute person, or (2) adultery, lewd or lascivious conduct, or other criminal charge involving a sex offense; is to be considered and is hereby declared to furnish reasonable grounds for the examination provided for in the preceding subsection; provided, however, it shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health, or his duly authorized deputy to examine into each such arrest and the circumstances leading thereto, in order to determine whether there exists in fact reasonable grounds to believe the arrested person to be afflicted with a venereal disease. The term "prostitution" as used in this subsection shall include the giving or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire and the giving or receiving of the body for indiscriminate sexual intercourse without hire.
(c) In furtherance of the purpose of the two preceding subsections, the Director of Public Health, or his duly authorized deputy, shall have the power to quarantine and/or examine, in such a manner and by such methods as modern science has found to be proper, all persons taken into custody by the Police Department of the City and County of San Francisco who are suspected by the Director of Public Health, or his duly authorized deputy of being afflicted with any venereal disease.
(d) No person convicted of any of the charges mentioned in Subsection (b) of this Section shall be released until examined for such venereal diseases by the Director of Public Health, his deputy or assistants.
(e) When any minor has acquired a venereal disease, his or her parents or guardians shall be legally responsible for the compliance of such minors with the requirements of the rules and regulations pertaining to venereal diseases.
(f) In addition to the powers and duties herein mentioned and the other powers and duties imposed upon him, the said Director of Public Health shall have the power to and shall make and promulgate such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary for the prevention and control of venereal disease in this City and County and to effectuate the provisions of this Section.
(g) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require that any person who adheres to the faith or teachings of any well recognized religious sect, denomination or organization, and in accordance with its creed, tenets, or principles depends for healing upon prayer in the practice of religion, shall submit to or receive any medical or physical treatment; but such person, if found to be afflicted with any venereal disease, shall be subject to isolation or quarantine in accordance with this Section and the law of the State of California.
(h) If any Subsection, Subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Section is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Section. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this Section and each Subsection, Subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other Subsections, Subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
SEC. 77. PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF DISEASE.
The term "contagious disease" shall include every disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, particularly cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, varicella, pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria, membraneous croup, scarlet fever, typhus fever, measles, pneumonia and every other disease publicly declared by the Department of Public Health to be dangerous to the public health.
(a) Reports of Physicians and Others. Every physician must report in writing to the Department of Public Health within 24 hours after he has been called to attend any person affected with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, the name and place of residence of such person and the name and state of the disease. In the event of the death of any person afflicted with any such disease, the attending physician must report in writing to the Department of Public Health within 24 hours thereafter, the name and place of residence of the deceased and the specific name and type of such disease.
Every physician, and every person having the control or management of any public or private institution or dispensary, shall report in writing to the Department of Public Health the name, age, sex, occupation and place of residence of every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis who shall have come under his care, within one week thereafter.
(b) Observation of Rules, Etc. Every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis, and every person in attendance upon any person so afflicted, and every person in charge of any private or public hospital or dispensary, shall observe and enforce all sanitary rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Public Health to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis.
(c) Interference With Officers, Etc. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or obstruct the officers or inspectors of the Department of Public Health, in the examination of any building or premises wherein a person is reported to be afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease.
(d) Posting of Notices. The Department of Public Health is hereby authorized and empowered to post in a conspicuous place upon any building or premises wherein any person is afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, a notice specifying the name of such disease. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the posting of such notice or to tear down or mutilate any notice so posted by the Department of Public Health in or upon any building or premises.
(e) Reports of Masters, Etc. The master or chief officer of every vessel within 1/4 of a mile of any wharf, dock, pier or any building in this City and County, and not in quarantine or within the quarantine limits, shall report daily, in writing, to the Department of Public Health the name of any person on such vessel afflicted with any infectious, contagious, or pestilential disease, and particulars of such disease and the condition of the person afflicted therewith.
The master or chief officer of any vessel which shall arrive in this port, and every physician who practiced on such vessel, shall, immediately upon arrival, report in writing to the Department of Public Health all facts concerning any person who may have been afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease during the voyage to this port, and also all the facts concerning any person or thing carried on such vessel during such voyage which, in his opinion, may endanger the public health of this City and County.
(f) Quarantine of Premises. Whenever the Department of Public Health shall have reason to suspect the presence of an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease within any building or premises, and the physician in attendance or the head of the family refuses to permit the representative of the Department of Public Health to examine the person suspected of being afflicted with such infectious disease, the Department of Public Health shall quarantine the premises and prevent egress and ingress from and to the same until such examination is permitted or until said Department has practiced disinfection and detention to its satisfaction.
(g) Notice to Department. Whenever any person residing in a hotel, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house is afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, owner, lessee, keeper or manager of such place must immediately give notice thereof to the Department of Public Health. Immediately upon the receipt of such notice the Department of Public Health must cause an examination of the person so afflicted, and, if in its judgment it be necessary, he shall cause such hotel, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house, or any part thereof, to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in an effective manner; and the Department of Public Health may cause the walls thereof to be whitewashed, or any wall paper thereon to be removed or replaced; and he may cause the bedding and bed clothes used by the person so afflicted to be thoroughly cleansed, scoured and fumigated, or, if necessary, to be destroyed.
(h) Duties of Undertakers and Others in Cases of Death. 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 Department of Public Health. It shall be unlawful for an 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 one five-hundredth solution of bichloride of mercury, and unless the coffin or casket is of metallic substance and hermetically sealed immediately after the body has been placed therein.
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, except for burial or cremation; and the body of the person so dying must be interred or cremated within 24 hours after the time of death; provided, however, that the Department of Public Health may by special permit, good cause appearing therefor, extend such time; but in no case shall such extension be for more than 36 hours from the time of death.
It shall be unlawful for any person having the possession or charge of the remains of any person who shall have died of any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease to permit such remains to be viewed by any person except the attending physician, the representatives of the Department of Public Health, the undertaker and his assistants, and the immediate members of the family of the decedent, or to permit formal services to be held over such remains within the premises where the death of such person occurred, or to remove or cause to be removed the body of such deceased person from said premises to any place other than a cemetery or crematory.
It shall be unlawful for any undertaker to assist in a public or church funeral of the body of any person who has died of an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease.
(i) Removal of Afflicted Persons Without Permit. It shall be unlawful for any person, without a written permit from the Department of Public Health to remove, or cause to be removed, any person afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, from any building to any other building, or from any vessel to any other vessel, or to the shore, or to any public vehicle.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, or cause to be removed, any person afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease from any building to any other building, or hospital, unless said patient is wrapped in a sterile sheet. All clothing, including bed clothes and mattresses, used by the patient shall be thoroughly fumigated after patient 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.
(j) Negligence of Persons Exposed to Disease. 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 has 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 body, or by the needless exposure of himself in the community.
(k) Duties Regarding Children of School Age. 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 an 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 Department of Public Health shall have given its written permission therefor.
SEC. 82. PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF .
The Department of Public Health shall, at its discretion, send to the superintendents, principals and teachers of all public, parochial and private schools, circulars at least once in each school year, prepared under the direction of the Director of Public Health, giving a description of the symptoms of the communicable diseases of children and of the parasitic disease of the skin, including pediculosis, scabies and favus.
The Department of Public Health shall, upon obtaining information as to the existence of a case of tuberculosis or pneumonia, send to the physician, surgeon, nurse or other person attending the case, printed circulars, giving, in clear and simple language, 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.
The Department of Public Health, upon 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 concerning the communicability, dangers and methods of prevention of tuberculosis.
The Department of Public Health shall, 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, send a representative to leave circulars and to give information as provided in this Section.
The Department of Public 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 Department.
The Department of Public Health shall preserve all reports upon cases of tuberculosis, and the records of the same.
The Department of Public Health shall, once each year or oftener, if necessary, send to every physician, surgeon and 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.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, to obstruct or interfere with the said Department of Public Health, or any officer, agent or employee of said Department, in the performance of any of the duties required by this Section and any person, persons, firm or corporation so obstructing or interfering with the said Department of Public Health or any officer, agent or employee of said Department shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SEC. 87. REMOVAL OF PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The Department of Public Health of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever in its judgment it may be necessary for the protection of the public health and public safety, and for the prevention of the spread of smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, bubonic plague, typhus fever, poliomyelitis, diphteria and scarlet fever, to remove or cause to be removed, any person or persons afflicted with any of said diseases who may be found residing in any hotel, lodging house, boarding house, tenement house, or any other place or places, or districts within the City and County of San Francisco, to such hospitals with the City and County of San Francisco as said Director of Public Health may designate.
SEC. 92. RODENT CONTROL.
This Section is designed to be and is enacted as a police and sanitary regulation for the protection of the public health, and particularly to prevent the propagation and spread of bubonic plague and other established and emerging rodent borne infectious diseases. The term "rodent" as used in this Section shall mean any animal belonging to the Order of Rodentia, such as rats and mice, but shall not include animal(s) kept in compliance with Section 37 of this Code.
(a) Authority of Director. The Director of Public Health, or any agent or inspector appointed by the Director for the purpose, shall have authority, after announcing the purpose of his visit, and shall be permitted to enter any building or premises, or any part thereof, in the City and County during reasonable hours of any day, for the purpose of inspecting the same, and to ascertain whether the provisions of this Section have been complied with by the owner and occupant thereof.
(b) All Buildings to be Free of Rodents. All buildings, places and premises whatsoever in the City and County shall immediately and continuously be kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and free from rodents by the owner and/or the occupant thereof.
(c) Exclusion of Rodents in Buildings. All building and basement walls of all storerooms, warehouses, residences or other buildings within the City and County; all chicken yards or pens, chicken coops or houses, and all barns and stables, shall be so constructed or repaired as to prevent rodents from being harbored underneath the same or within the walls thereof, and all food products or other products, goods, wares and merchandise liable to attract or to become infested or infected with rats, rodents, whether kept for sale or for any other purpose, shall be so protected by the owner or occupant as to prevent rodents from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith.
(d) Docks, Etc., Exclusion of Rodents. All public and private docks and wharves in the City and County, wherever located, shall be so protected as to prevent rodents from gaining entrance to such docks or wharves, at either high or low tide, from vessels anchored or moored alongside of such docks or wharves, or from other sources, and all food products stored in docks or wharves shall be so kept and stored as to prevent rodents from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith.
(e) Marine Vessels; Rodent Shield; Duty of Vessel Owners.
(1) It shall be unlawful to permit any vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft, except vessels engaged in domestic commerce, to lie alongside of any wharf or dock in the City and County of San Francisco unless the chain, hawser, rope or line of any kind extending from any such vessel to the dock or wharf is equipped with and has properly and securely attached thereto a rodent shield or guard of such design as shall be approved by the Director or a person designated by her or him.
(2) Whenever plague, either the pneumonic or bubonic type, or any other disease transmitted or otherwise caused by rodents, exists in any domestic port, and the Director determines that vessels touching such port may pose a threat to the health and safety of the citizens of the City and County of San Francisco, all vessels engaged in domestic commerce touching at any such port shall comply with the provisions of this Subsection.
(3) It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, master or other officer in charge of any such vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft to comply with this Subsection.
(f) Slaughterhouses, Exclusion of Rodents. All slaughterhouses of every kind and nature and wherever located in the City and County shall be so protected as to prevent rodents from gaining access to the building or buildings thereof, and all holes and openings in the building or basement walls shall be thoroughly stopped with cement or other material approved by the Director of Public Health, and all food products stored in slaughterhouses shall be so kept as to prevent rodents from coming in contact therewith.
(g) Dumping of Waste Matter Prohibited.
(1) No person, firm or corporation shall cause or permit the dumping or placing upon any land, or in any water or waterway, within the City and County, any dead animal, butchers' offal, fish or parts of fish, or any waste vegetable or animal matter whatever.
(2) No person, firm or corporation, whether the owner, lessee, occupant or agent of any premises, shall keep or permit to be kept in any building, area way, or upon any premises, or in any alley, street or public place adjacent to any premises, any waste animal or vegetable matter, dead animals, butchers' offal, fish or parts of fish, swill or any refuse matter from any restaurant, eating place, residence, place of business or other building, unless the same be collected and kept in a tightly covered or closed can or vessel.
(3) No rubbish, waste or manure shall be placed, left, dumped or permitted to accumulate or remain in any building, place or premises in the City and County so that the same shall or may afford food or a harboring or breeding place for rodents.
(Amended by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 93.
(Amended by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 94.
(Amended by Ord. 179-85, App. 4/4/85; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 95.
(Amended by Ord. 179-85, App. 4/4/85; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 95.5.
(Amended by Ord. 179-85, App. 4/4/85; Ord. 197-98, App. 6/19/98; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 96.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 96.5.
(Amended by Ord. 437-84, App. 11/2/84; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 96.6.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 96.7.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 96.8.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.1.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.2.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.3.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.4.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.5.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
Sec. 97.6.
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
SEC. 98. TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis is hereby declared to be a communicable disease, dangerous to the public health.
(a) Report of Physicians and Others. It shall be the duty of every physician practicing in the City and County of San Francisco, and of every person in charge of any hospital, dispensary or other private or public institution in said City and County, to report in writing to the Director of Public Health the name, age, sex, color, occupation, address and place where last employed, of every person having tuberculosis which comes under his care or observation. Said reports shall be made in writing on a form furnished as hereinafter provided and shall be forwarded to said Director of Public Health within 24 hours after knowledge of the case comes to said physician or person.
(b) Sputum Examination. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health when so requested by any physician or by authorities of any hospital or dispensary to make or cause to be made a microscopical examination of the sputum sent him as that of a person having symptoms of tuberculosis accompanied by a blank giving name, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed, if known, and address of the person whose sputum it is. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health to promptly make a report of the results of such examinations free of charge to the physician or person upon whose application the same is made.
(c) Registration of Reports, Etc. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health to cause all reports and all results of examinations showing the presence of the bacilli of tuberculosis made in accordance with provisions of this Section to be recorded in a register of which he shall be the custodian. Such register shall not be open to inspection by any person other than the health authorities of the state and of the said City and County, and said health authorities shall not permit any such report or record to be divulged so as to disclose the identity of the person to whom it relates, except as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Section.
(d) Notice of Vacation of Premises by Tubercular Patient. In case of vacation of any apartment or premises by the death or removal therefrom of a person having tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician, or if there be no such physician, or if such physician be absent, of the owner, lessee, occupant or other person having charge of said apartment or premises, to notify the Director of Public Health of said death or removal within 24 hours thereafter; and such apartment or premises so vacated shall not be occupied until duly disinfected, cleaned, or renovated, as hereinafter provided.
Further, it shall be unlawful for any person suffering from tuberculosis to change his or her residence or to be removed therefrom until the Director of Public Health has been notified so that the vacated apartment or premises may be disinfected, cleaned, or renovated.
(e) Disinfection of Premises. When notified of the vacation of any apartment or premises as provided in this Section, the Director of Public Health or one of his deputies shall thereafter visit said apartment or premises and shall order and direct that except for purposes of cleaning or disinfection no infected article shall be removed therefrom until property is suitably cleansed or disinfected, and said Director of Public Health or his deputy shall determine the manner in which said apartment or premises shall be disinfected, cleansed or renovated in order that they may be rendered safe and suitable for occupancy. After the health authorities determine that disinfection is sufficient to render them safe and suitable for occupancy, said apartment or premises, together with all infected articles therein, shall be immediately disinfected by the Director of Public Health; or if the owner prefers, by the owner at his expense to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Health. Should the Director of Public Health determine that such apartment or premises are in need of thorough cleansing of renovating, a notice to this effect shall be served upon the owner or agent of said premises, and said owner or agent shall proceed to the cleansing of renovating of said apartment or premises in accordance with the instructions of the Director of Public Health and such cleansing and renovating shall be done at the expense of said owner or agent. Such articles that cannot be disinfected or renovated to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Health shall be destroyed.
(f) Posting of Notice. In case the orders or directions of the Director of Public Health requiring the disinfecting, cleansing or renovating of any apartment or premises or any article therein as hereinbefore provided shall not be complied with within 48 hours after said orders or directions shall be given, the Director of Public Health may cause a placard, in words and form substantially as follows, to be placed on the door of the infected apartment or premises:
"Tuberculosis is a communicable disease. These apartments have been occupied by a consumptive person and may be infected. They must not be occupied until the order of the Director of Public Health directing the disinfection or renovation has been complied with. This notice must not be removed under the penalty of the law except by the Director of Public Health or other duly authorized official."
(g) Safe Disposal of Sputum, Etc. Any person having tuberculosis who shall dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion so as to cause offense or danger to any person or persons occupying the same room or apartment, house or part of house, shall on complaint of any person subject to such offense or danger, be deemed guilty of a nuisance; and any person subject to such a nuisance may make complaint in writing to the Director of Public Health, and it shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health receiving such complaint to investigate and if it appears that the nuisance complained of is such as to cause offense or danger to any person occupying the same room, apartment, house or part of house, he shall serve a notice on the person so complained of, reciting the alleged cause of offense or danger and requiring him to dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion in such a manner as to remove all reasonable cause of offense or danger.
It shall be the duty of a physician attending a patient for tuberculosis to take all proper precautions and to give proper instructions to provide for the safety of all individuals occupying the same house or apartment.
(h) Removal of Patient, Etc. Whenever a person having tuberculosis is unable for financial reasons, or from any other cause, to comply with the rules of the Director of Public Health providing for the precautions to be observed to prevent the spread of infection, or when such person willfully refuses to comply with said rules and in all cases where children are unavoidably exposed to infection, the Director of Public Health may, on presentation to it of proof that such person is a sufferer from tuberculosis, order his immediate removal to a hospital or other institution for the care of sufferers from tuberculosis. Such person shall not be permitted to leave such hospital or other institution until the danger of infection has been removed or he is able and willing to comply with the precautions and rules herein referred to.
(i) Procedure and Precautions to Be Taken. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health to transmit to a physician reporting a case of tuberculosis as provided in this Section a printed statement and report naming such procedure and precautions as are necessary or desirable to be taken on the premises of a tubercular patient. Upon receipt of such statement or report, the physician shall carry into effect all such procedures and precautions as are therein prescribed, and shall thereupon sign and date the same, and return to the Director of Public Health without delay; or if such attending physician be unwilling or unable to carry into effect the procedure and precautions so specified, he shall so state on this report, and immediately return the same to the Director of Public Health and the duties therein prescribed shall thereupon devolve upon said Director of Public Health. Upon the receipt of this statement and report, the Director of Public Health shall examine the same and satisfy himself that the attending physician has taken all necessary and desirable precautions to insure the safety of all persons living in the apartment or premises occupied by the person having tuberculosis. If the precautions taken or instructions given by the attending physician are, in the opinion of the Director of Public Health, not such as will remove all reasonable danger or probability of danger to the persons occupying the same house or apartment or premises, the Director of Public Health shall return to the attending physician the report with a letter specifying the additional precautions or instructions which the Director of Public Health shall require him to make or give; and the said attending physician shall immediately take the additional precautions and give the additional instructions specified and shall record and return the same on the original report to the Director of Public Health. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health to transmit to every person reporting any case of tuberculosis, or if there be no attending physician, to the person reported as suffering from this disease, a circular of information which shall inform the consumptive of the precautions necessary to avoid transmitting the disease to others.
(j) Violations. It shall be unlawful for any physician or person practicing as a physician to report knowingly as affected with tuberculosis any person who is not so affected or willfully make any false statement concerning the name, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed, if known, or address of any person reported as affected with tuberculosis, or certify falsely as to any of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of infection.
(k) Children of School Age. No instructor, teacher, pupil or child affected with pulmonary tuberculosis shall be permitted by any superintendent, principal or teacher of any public, private or parochial school, to attend school except by written permission of the Director of Public Health.
(l) Recovery Reports. Upon the recovery of any person having tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician to make a report of this fact to the Director of Public Health, who shall record the same in the records of his office and shall relieve said person of further liability to any requirements imposed by this Section.
SEC. 103. PROHIBITING IMPORTATION AND SALE OF GROUND SQUIRRELS.
No person or persons, firm, company or corporation shall import into the City and County of San Francisco, or shall sell, expose for sale or exchange or deliver or distribute or have in their possession any ground squirrel or squirrels within the limits of the said City and County.
SEC. 104. PENALTY.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of Section 103 of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25, and not more than $500, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not less than 10 days and not more than 100 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.