STATUTES OF OREGON 
Relating to 
PUBLIC HEALTH 
and 
Rules and Regulations of the Oregon State 
Board of Health 
1911 
SALEM, OREGON 
WILLIS S. DUNIWAY, STATE PRINTER 
1911 STATUTES OF OREGON 
Relating to 
PUBLIC HEALTH 
and 
Rules and Regulations of the Oregon State 
Board of Health 
1911 
SALEM, OREGON 
WILLIS S. DUNIWAY, STATE PRINTER 
1911 STATUTES OF OREGON RELATING TO 
PUBLIC HEALTH 
CHAPTER I. 
OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
§ 4686. State Board of Health, How Constituted. 
A board is hereby established, which shall be 
known under the name and style of the State 
Board of Health. It shall consist of seven mem- 
bers, as follows: Six members, who shall be 
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of 
the Senate, the various sections of the State being 
represented as far as practicable, and a secretary, 
as provided by Section 4689, all to be physicians, 
and especially selected for their fitness and public 
spirit. The six members first appointed shall be 
so designated by the Governor that the term of 
office of three shall expire every two years, on 
the fifteenth day of January. Thereafter, the 
Governor, with the consent of the Senate, shall 
biennially appoint three members, to hold their 
office for four years, ending on January 15th. 
Any vacancy in said board may be filled by the 
Governor. FL. 1903, p. 82, § 1.] 
§ 4687. Its Duties. 
The State Board of Health shall have general 
supervision of the interests of the health and life 
of citizens of the State. It shall keep the vital 
statistics of the State, and make sanitary investi- 
gations and inquiries respecting the causes and 4 
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prevention of diseases, especially of epidemics, 
including those of domestic animals. It shall 
study the causes of mortality, and the effects of 
localities, employments, conditions, foods, bever- 
ages, habits, ana circumstances of the health of 
the people. It shall make, and is hereby empow- 
ered to enforce, such quarantine regulations as 
seem best for the preservation of the public 
health, and it shall be tne duty of all police offi- 
cers, sheriffs, constables and all county officers 
and employees of the State, to enforce such regu- 
lations, subject to the authority of the health 
officer. [L. 1903, p. 82, § 2.] 
§ 4688. Meetings and Quorum-May Investigate 
Dangerous and Unusual Diseases. 
The board shall meet annually at Salem, an$ 
shall also hold special meetings when and where 
the board may provide, as frequently as the 
proper and efficient discharge of its duties may 
require. Three shall constitute a quorum for 
the transaction of business. It shall elect, from 
its own number, a president, and may adopt rules 
and by-laws, subject to provisions of this act. 
It shall have authority to send its secretary, or a 
committee of the board, to any part of the State, 
when deemed necessary, to investigate the cause 
of any unusual disease or mortality, or especially 
dangerous diseases. [L. 1903, p. 82, § 3.] 
§ 4689. Board to Elect a Secretary Who Shall be 
State Health Officer-Qualifications. 
At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as a 
competent and suitable person can be secured, 
the board shall elect a secretary, who shall, by 
virtue of such election, become a member of the 
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shall be known as State Health Officer, who shall 
be a regularly graduated and reputable physician. 
[L. 1903, p. 82, § 4.] 
§ 4690. Secretary's Term of Office-His Duties. 
The secretary shall hold his office so long as he 
shall faithfully discharge the duties thereof, and 
may be removed for just cause at a regular or 
special meeting of the board, a majority of the 
members voting therefor. He shall perform the 
duties prescribed by this act, or required by the 
board. He shall keep a record of the transactions 
of the board, shall have the custody of all books, 
papers, documents, and other property belonging 
to the board, which may be deposited in his office. 
He shall, so far as practicable, communicate with 
the other state boards of health, and with the 
county boards of health within the State; shall 
keep and file reports received from such boards, 
and all correspondence of the office appertain- 
ing to the business of the board. He shall prepare 
blank forms for the various county boards of 
health, and give such instructions as may be neces- 
sary, and forward them to the various health 
officers of the county boards of health throughout 
the State. He shall collect information concern- 
ing vital statistics, knowledge respecting diseases, 
and all useful information on the subject of 
hygiene, and through an annual report, and other- 
wise as the board may direct, shall disseminate 
such information among the people. [L. 1903, 
p. 82, § 5.] 
§ 4691. Salary and Expenses of Secretary-Ex- 
penses of Members. 
The secretary shall receive an annual salary, 
which shall be fixed by the State Board of Health, 6 
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and the necessary traveling expenses, and the 
necessary expenses for clerical service that the 
board may deem necessary for his assistance. The 
board shall certify the amount due him, and, on 
presentation of said certificate, the Secretary of 
State shall draw a warrant on the State Treas- 
urer for the amount. The members of the board 
shall receive no per diem compensation for their 
services, but their traveling and other necessary 
expenses, while employed on the business of the 
board, shall be allowed and paid. [L. 1903, 
p. 82, § 6.] 
§ 4692. Annual Appropriation for Expenses. 
The sum of $15,000 per annum, or so much 
thereof as may be deemed necessary by the State 
Board of Health, is hereby appropriated annually 
to pay the salary of the secretary and any clerical 
services that he may require, and to meet the con- 
tingent expenses of the office of the secretary, and 
to provide for his traveling expenses, and to pro- 
vide for the salary of a bacteriologist and to equip 
and maintain a laboratory and to meet the ex- 
penses of the members of the board; the said ex- 
penses shall be certified and paid in the same man- 
ner as the salary of the secretary, and it is 
hereby made the duty of the Governor, Secretary 
of State, and State Treasurer, or other proper 
State officers, each year, in computing and esti- 
mating the amount of revenue necessary for State 
purposes, to include in such estimate the sum 
hereby appropriated; and it shall be levied and 
collected as other State taxes are collected and 
paid into the State Treasurer [treasury] and kept 
separate and apart from other funds, and shall be 
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[L. 1903, p. 82, § 7, as amended by L. 1911, 
p. 438, c. 247.] 
Sections 8 and 9 of the Law of 19 03, constituting county- 
boards of health, are deemed repealed by the next chapter. 
§ 4693. State Board of Health When to Abate 
Nuisances-Penalty for Violation of Its 
Orders. 
In cities, districts, and places having no local 
boards of health, or in case the sanitary laws or 
regulations in places where boards of health or 
healtn officers exist should be imperative [inoper- 
ativej, the State Board of Health shall have power 
and authority to order nuisances, or the cause of 
any special disease or mortality, to be abated and 
removed. Any person who shall fail to obey or 
shall violate such order, shall, on conviction, be 
sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $100, 
at the discretion of the court. [L. 1903, p. 
82, § 10.] 
§ 4694. Secretary of State to Provide Blanks. 
The Secretary of State shall provide suitable 
books and suitable blanks, as directed by the 
State Board of Health, for keeping record of vital 
statistics, and for reporting the same to the county 
boards of health, and to the secretary of the State 
Board of Health. [L. 1903, p. 82, § 11.] 
CHAPTER II. 
OF THE COUNTY AND CITY BOARDS OF HEALTH. 
§ 4695. County and City Boards of Health-Sec- 
retary Removed by State Board-Filling 
Vacancies-Powers. 
The county judge and county commissioners, 
and the mayor and common council of each incor- 8 
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porated city, except wnere a regularly constituted 
board of health by statute or by ordinance of such 
city exists or may hereafter be created, shall con- 
stitute a board of health ex officio, for each county 
and city respectively of the State, whose duty it 
shall be to protect the public health by the removal 
of causes of diseases when known, and in all cases 
to take prompt action to arrest the spread of con- 
tagious and infectious diseases, to abate and re- 
move nuisances dangerous to the public health, 
as directed or approved by the State Board of 
Health, and perform such other duties as may 
from time to time be required of them by the 
State Board of Health pertaining to the health of 
the people. They shall elect a secretary who shall 
be the health officer of the appointing board, and 
who shall be a graduate of a reputable medical 
college, and shall be in possession of a license 
issued by the Oregon State Board of Medical 
Examiners, and if such appointee is not already 
informed in hygiene and sanitary science, shall 
immediately so inform himself according to the 
requirements of the State Board of Health. He 
shall serve as secretary for two years from the 
first day of July next ensuing his election, and 
shall receive as compensation from the county or 
city treasury by the board electing him, to be paid 
quarterly, on the first Monday in September, 
March, and July, and the sum of one and one-half 
cents (I1/?) per capita up to and including fifty 
thousand people; the population to be determined 
from the school census of the year of the appoint- 
ment by multiplying the number of school children 
as determined by the school census by four (4) ; 
provided, that no incorporated city or town shall 
pay its secretary less than $10 per annum, nor 
county board shall pay its secretary less than 
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nothing herein shall prevent any incorporated city 
from establishing and maintaining a city board 
of health with proper health officers, the com- 
pensation of members of such boards of health 
and health officers to be fixed by the city council 
of such city. The State Board of Health shall 
have power to remove at any time any county, 
city, or town health officer for intemperance, fail- 
ure to collect vital statistics, obey rules and by- 
laws, keep records, make reports or answer letters 
of inquiry of said State Board concerning the 
health of the people. Such removal, however, 
shall not be made until five days' notice of the 
charge or charges against such health officer shall 
have been mailed him; provided, the time and 
place for hearing such charges by the State Board 
of Health shall be in the county seat of the county 
of which defendant is health officer and shall take 
place not later than one week after the time of 
mailing notice to such health officer; also pro- 
vided, he may be represented by counsel. In case 
of death, removal, or resignation of any county or 
city health officer created under this act, the 
vacancy shall be immediately filled by the county 
judge or mayor of the city, as the case may be, 
and such appointees shall nold office for the unex- 
pired term of the health officer whose place he 
takes. The omce of the secretary of the county 
board of health shall be at the county seat. All 
county or city health officers shall possess the pow- 
ers of constables or other peace officers in all mat- 
ters pertaining to the public health. [L. 1905, 
c. 170, p. 294, § 1.] 
§ 4696. To Be Subordinate to State Board and to 
Enforce Its Regulations. 
The board of health of each county shall be 
subordinate to the State Board of Health, and it 10 
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shall be the duty of the secretary of such county 
boards to report such lacts and statistics as may 
be required under instructions from and in accord- 
ance with blanks furnished by said board; and 
it shall be the duty of secretaries of city boards 
of health to make reports of such facts and statis- 
tics as may be required under instructions and in 
accordance with blanks furnished by the State 
Board to the secretaries of the county boards of 
health in which such city boards of health are 
subordinate. It shah be the duty of the county 
boards of health to enforce all rules and regula- 
tions of the State Board of Health in their respec- 
tive counties, which may be issued from time to 
time for the preservation of the public health and 
for the prevention of endemic, epidemic and con- 
tagious diseases; provided, that all books and 
records kept by the secretary of the county board 
shall be the property of the county where such 
records are kept, and filed with the county clerk 
where such records can be consulted without fee. 
[L. 1905, c. 170, p. 296, § 2.] 
§ 4697. Reports by Physicians and Others of 
Births, Deaths, and Contagions Diseases 
-Death Certificates and Burial Permits 
-Birth Certificates. 
It shall be the duty of all physicians, accou- 
cheurs or midwives in the State to report to the 
secretary of the board of health of the city or 
county in which they may occur, all births and 
deaths, and shall immediately report contagious 
diseases as are specified by the State Board, 
which may occur under their supervision, with a 
certificate of the cause of death, and such corre- 
lative facts as may be reouired in the blank forms 
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any death may occur without medical attendance 
it shall be the duty of the undertaker to notify 
the local health officer of such death for his im- 
mediate investigation and certification, prior to 
issuing the permit; provided, that when no under- 
taker is in attendance, and in such cases only, the 
local health officer is authorized to make the cer- 
tificate and return from the statement of relatives 
or other persons having adequate knowledge of 
the facts, whose duty it shall be to report such 
deaths to the local health officer and secure burial 
permit before burying the body; provided further, 
that if the circumstances of the case render it 
probable that the death was caused by unlawful or 
suspicious means, the local health officer shall 
then refer the case to the coroner, whose duty it 
is to hold an inquest on the body of any deceased 
person, and to make the certificate of death re- 
quired for a burial permit, shall state in his cer- 
tificate the nature of the disease, or the manner 
of death; and, if from external causes or violence 
whether (probably) accidental, suicidal, or homi- 
cidal, as determined by the inquest; and shall, in 
either case, furnish such information as may be 
required by the State Board of Health to properly 
classify the death, and shall report the same to the 
local health officer. The undertaker, or person 
acting as undertaker, shall be responsible for ob- 
taining and filing the certificate of death with the 
local health officer and securing a burial or re- 
moval permit, prior to any disposition of the body. 
He shall obtain the personal and statistical par- 
ticulars required trom the person best qualified 
to supply them, over the signature and address of 
his informant. He shall then present the certifi- 
cate to the attending physician, if any, or to the 
health officer or coroner, as directed by the State 12 
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Board of Health, for the medical certificate of the 
cause of death and other particulars necessary to 
complete the record, as specified in this section. 
And he shall then state the facts required relative 
to the date and place of burial, over his signa- 
ture and with his address, and present the com- 
pleted certificate to the local health officer, within 
the time limit, if any, designated by the local 
board of health for the issuance of a burial or 
removal permit. The undertaker shall deliver the 
burial permit to the sexton, or person in charge 
of the place of burial, before interring the body, 
or shall attach the transit permit containing the 
local health officer's removal permit to the box 
containing the corpse, when shinned by any trans- 
portation company; said permit to accompany the 
corpse to its destination, where, if within the 
State of Oregon, it shall be taken up by the local 
health officer of the district in which interment 
is made, who shall issue a burial permit thereon; 
provided, that in cities of the first class the 
method of collecting the information required in 
all certificates of death may be regulated by the 
local health authorities. It shall be the duty of 
the attending physician or midwife to file a certifi- 
cate of birth, properly and completely filled out, 
giving all of the particulars, and on the forms 
required by the State Board of Health, with the 
local health officer of the district in which the 
birth occurred. And if there be no attending 
physician or midwife, then it shall be the duty of 
tne father or mother oi the child, householder or 
owner of the premises, manager or superintendent 
of public or private institution in which the birth 
occurred, to notify the local health officer before 
the last day of the month in which said birth 
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occurred. It shall then in such case be the duty 
of the local health officer to secure the necessary 
information and signature to make a proper cer- 
tificate of birth. [L. 1905, c. 170, p. 296, §3; 
L. 1907, c. 82, p. 143.] 
§ 4698. County Clerk to Report Marriage to 
County Board of Health. 
It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each 
county to report to the secretary of the county 
board of health, on or before the fifth day of each 
month, the number of marriages for the preced- 
ing month, with such facts relating thereto as may 
be provided for by blank furnished to such clerk 
by the secretary of the county board of health. 
[L. 1905, c. 170, p. 297, 
§ 4699. Boards of Health to Keep Records of Mar- 
riages, Births and Deaths. 
It shall be the duty of all boards of health to 
keep a complete record, according to the form 
prescribed by the State Board, of all marriages, 
births, and deaths, reported to them under the 
provisions of this act, and such record shall be 
open to the inspection of any citizen without fee. 
It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health 
to prescribe the forms for the records of mar- 
riages, births and deaths, to be used in the office 
of the secretary of the county board, and pre- 
scribe such forms, and the secretary of the State 
Board of Health shall, upon requisition of the 
county health officers of each county, furnish him 
and through him the secretary of each local board 
in such county, such blanks as may be required 
for the gathering and reporting of vital and sani- 
tary statistics according to the provisions of this 
act. [L. 1905, c. 170, p. 297, § 5.] 14 
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§ 4700. Violations of Act a Misdemeanor. 
Any person or persons, any board of health or 
the officers of any corporation who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction 
thereof shall be fined not less than $10 nor to ex- 
ceed $100. [L. 1905, c. 170, p. 297, § 6.] 
CHAPTER III. 
OF STATE COMMISSION FOR TREATMENT OF TUBER- 
CULOSIS AND OF TUBERCULOSIS SANITORIA. 
§ 4701. State Commission for Treatment of 
Tuberculosis. 
Immediately after the taking effect of this act, 
the Governor shall appoint four competent per- 
sons, residents of the State, who together with the 
Governor of the State, the president and secre- 
tary of State Board of Health, shall constitute the 
"State Commission for the Treatment of Tubercu- 
losis." Of the members appointed by the Gov- 
ernor, two shall hold office for two years from the 
day of appointment, and two for four years from 
the date of appointment. All subsequent appoint- 
ments shall be for the term of four years, except 
appointments to fill vacancies which shall be made 
by the Governor for the unexpired term. [L. 1909, 
c. 202, p. 297, § 1.] 
§ 4702. Commission to Elect Officers and Adopt 
Rules. 
At its first meeting, the commission shall or- 
ganize by the election from its members of a presi- 
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and regulations for its guidance as it shall deem 
best in order to carry out the purposes of this 
act. [L. 1909, c. 202, p. 297, § 2.] 
§ 4703. Members to Receive No Compensation 
Except Expenses. 
No member of the commission shall receive any 
compensation for his services other than the 
necessary traveling expenses, which amount must 
be audited and approved by the commission. [L. 
1909, c. 202, p. 297, § 3.] 
§ 4704. Commission to Establish Sanatoria-Con- 
ditions of Admission. 
As soon as practical after the organization of 
the commission, it shall establish one or more 
sanatoria for the treatment of the tuberculous 
poor of this State. Every applicant for admis- 
sion to said sanatoria must present to the medical 
director thereof a certificate from the county 
judge of the county in which said applicant re- 
sides, certifying that said applicant has been a 
bona fide resident of the State of Oregon for the 
year last past and that he or she is suffering from 
tuberculosis. The county judge shall not issue 
such certificate except upon the certificate of one 
or more regularly licensed physicians of the 
county in which he is a resident. [L. 1909, c. 202, 
P. 297, § 4.] 
§ 4705. Officers to be Employed and Their Sal- 
aries. 
The commission is authorized to employ the ser- 
vices of a medical director at not to exceed $200 
per month; a matron at not to exceed $100 per 
month; and such nurses and employees as may be 
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no one of whom shall receive a salary in excess 
of $75 per month. [L. 1909, c. 202, p. 298, § 5.] 
§ 4706. Reports of Commission. 
The commission shall make a biennial report to 
the legislature on or before the first Monday in 
January, and said report shall contain an itemized 
statement of all expenses incurred. [L. 1909, 
c. 202, p. 298, § 6.] 
§ 4707. Appropriation and Expenditures. 
There is hereby appropriated annually from any 
moneys in the general fund in the State treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000 
for maintenance; provided, however, that any bal- 
ance not expended by the commission in the pur- 
chase of grounds and equipment of the sanatoria, 
shall remain in the hands of the State Treasurer 
and not be applicable for maintenance; and 
further, any balance of the maintenance fund not 
expended by the commission in any one year, may 
be added to and become part of the annual appro- 
priation for the succeeding year. No moneys so 
appropriated shall be paid out except upon voucher 
duly approved by the Secretary of State. [L. 
1909, c. 202, p. 298, § 7.] 
§ 4708. Tuberculosis Sanitarium-Tax For. 
That any county within the State of Oregon, or 
any city of ten thousand people or more, shall 
have the power to establish and maintain a sani- 
tarium for the use and benefit of the inhabitants 
of such county or city for the treatment and care 
of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, and may 
levy a suitable tax therefor, said tax to be levied 
and collected in like manner with the other gen- 
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shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as 
the "tuberculosis sanitarium fund." [L. 1909, 
c. 198, p. 291, § 1.] 
§ 4709. Petition for Election-Action on Affirma- 
tive Vote. 
When one hundred legal voters of any such 
county or city shall present a petition to the 
county court and county commissioners, or to the 
city council, then if deemed regular such county 
commissioners or city council may order a general 
election, instructing the county clerk, in case of 
the county; or the city recorder in case of the 
city, to insert in the next legal notices of the regu- 
lar county or city election or State election, the 
fact that such a tax is to be voted and that every 
elector may vote for a tuberculosis sanitarium, 
Yes; and for a tuberculosis sanitarium, No. And 
if upon canvassing the vote cast at such election 
it is found that a majority of the votes are for a 
tuberculosis sanitarium, then such county court 
and county commissioners and such city council 
at their next regular levy shall levy a sufficient 
number of mills the first year to cover the cost of 
the erection of such buildings as may be suitable 
for this purpose, either in connection with and on 
such grounds as such city or county may own or 
control, and be placed under the immediate care 
of some of sucn county or city officials or em- 
ployees properly supervised, and thereafter an- 
nually shall levy a sufficient sum for the mainten- 
ance of such sanitarium and defray all expenses 
connected therewith. [L. 1909, c. 198, p. 291, § 2.] 
§ 4710. Board of Directors, How Constituted. 
When any such sanitarium has been established 
under this act the county court with the approval 
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of the county commissioners or the mayor with the 
approval of the council as the case may be, shall 
appoint a board of three directors, one of whom 
shall be a member of the county board of health 
or city board of health as the case may be, and 
the other two from citizens at large and shall be 
chosen with reference to their special fitness for 
such office. Such directors shall serve without 
compensation. [L. 1909, c. 198, p. 291, § 3.] 
§4711. Their Duties and Powers. 
Said directors shall have exclusive control of 
the expenditure of all moneys collected to the 
credit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund and the 
construction of any sanitarium building and of 
the supervision, care and custody of the grounds, 
rooms or buildings constructed, leased or set apart 
for that purpose; provided, that all money received 
for such sanitarium for the county shall be depos- 
ited with the county or city treasurer and shall 
not be used for any other purpose, but shall be 
drawn upon by the proper officers of the said 
county or city upon proper authenticated voucher 
of the sanitarium board. Said board shall have 
power to purchase or lease grounds, lease or erect 
appropriate building or buildings for the use of 
said sanitarium with the approval of the State 
Board of Health and shall have power to appoint 
[a] suitable superintendent or matron, or both, 
and provide them with such assistants as are nec- 
essary and fix their compensation. [L. 1909, 
c. 198, p. 291, § 4.] 
§ 4712. Sanitarium to Be Free, Subject to Regula- 
tions of State Board of Health-Board to 
Visit and Report. 
Every sanitarium established under this act 
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county or city who may be afflicted with tubercu- 
losis, and they shall be entitled to occupancy, nurs- 
ing, care, medicines, and attention according to 
the rules and regulations prescribed by the said 
board. Said sanitarium shall always be subject to 
such rules and regulations as may be adopted by 
the State Board of Health in order to render the 
use of said sanitarium of greater benefit to the 
greatest number, and said sanitarium board may 
exclude from the use of the sanitarium any or all 
inhabitants and persons who willfully violate such 
rules and regulations, and said board may extend 
the privileges and use of such sanitarium to per- 
sons residing outside such county or city, in this 
State, so afflicted, upon such terms and conditions 
as the said board may from time to time and 
through the advice and consent of the State Board 
of Health prescribe by its rules and regulations; 
and it is hereby made the duty of some member 
or members or representative of the State Board 
of Health to at least once each year visit any and 
all the sanitariums created under this act and 
report the conditions of the same in writing to the 
secretary of the board and he to incorporate the 
same in his regular biennial report. [L. 1909, 
c. 198, p. 291, § 5.] 
§ 4713. Physicians to Have Equal Privileges- 
None to Be Paid Out of Fund. 
All reputable physicians shall have equal privi- 
leges in treating patients in the said sanitarium; 
provided, that the said sanitarium board shall at 
no time provide for compensation to any physician 
out of the public fund for services rendered 
patients in such sanitarium. [L. 1909, c. 198, 
P. 291, § 6.] 20 
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CHAPTER IV. 
OF QUARANTINE. 
§ 4714. Quarantine by Boards of Health. 
The State Board of Health or the board of 
health of any incorporated city or village in time 
of epidemic or threatened epidemic, or when any 
dangerous communicable disease is unusually 
prevalent, may, after a personal investigation by 
the members or member or the executive officer of 
such board to establish the facts in the case, and 
not otherwise, impose a quarantine on vessels, 
railroads, stages, or any other public or private 
vehicle or vehicles conveying persons, baggage or 
freight, or used for such purpose, and may make 
and enforce such rules and regulations as such 
board may deem wise and necessary for protec- 
tion of the health of the people of the community 
or State; provided, however, that the running of 
any train or any cars on any steam or electric rail- 
road, or of steamboats, vessels, or other public 
conveyance shall not be prohibited. [L. 1907, 
c. 70, p. 122, § 1.] 
§ 4715. Regulations of Local Board May Be Al- 
tered by State Board. 
A true copy of such rules and regulations, when 
established by a local board of health, after sub- 
mission to the State Board of Health, may be 
altered, relaxed, or abolished by order of the 
State board, and thereafter no changes shall be 
made except by the State Board of Health or by 
the local board, to meet some new and sudden 
emergency. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 122, § 2.] HEALTH LAWS OF OREGON. 
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§4716. Quarantine of Contagious Diseases; Flags; 
Regidations. 
It shall be the duty of the county or municipal 
board of health, when a case of smallpox, cholera, 
plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, 
membranous croup, or scarlet fever, to at once 
cause to be placed in a conspicuous place on the 
house where any of the aforesaid diseases occur, 
a quarantine card or flag having printed on it in 
large letters the name of the disease within, and 
if smallpox, the color shall be yellow, diphtheria 
green, scarlet fever red, and all other diseases 
white, and to prohibit entrance to or exit from 
such house without a written permission from the 
health officer or executive officer of said local 
board; and every physician attending a person 
affected with any of the aforesaid diseases shall 
use such precautionary measures to prevent the 
spread of the disease as may be required by the 
county or municipal board of health; provided, 
that in case of failure of the county or municipal 
board of health, or when no such board is organ- 
ized, it at once becomes the duty of the State 
Board of Health to enforce such quarantine as it 
may deem best; and provided further, that every 
physician shall exercise the duties of health officer 
until such county or municipal health officer shall 
be notified of the existence of such contagious 
disease. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 122, § 8.] 
§ 4717. Provisions for Enforcement of Quaran- 
tine. 
No person shall mar, remove, deface, or destroy 
such quarantine card, which shall remain in place 
until after the person affected is removed from 
such house or has recovered and is no longer 
capable of communicating the disease, and the 22 
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said house and the contents thereof have been 
properly purified and disinfected by either the 
county or municipal board of health, or the State 
Board of Health, or some of its officers or agents; 
provided, that the State Board of Health shall 
have power to make rules and regulations pre- 
scribing the number of days a person affected with 
any of the diseases mentioned in Section 4716 
shall remain in quarantine. The county or muni- 
cipal board of health, or the State Board of Health 
may employ as many persons as it deems neces- 
sary to execute its orders and properly guard any 
house or place containing any person or persons 
affected with any of the diseases named herein or 
who have been exposed thereto; and such persons 
shall be sworn as quarantine guards, shall have 
police powers, and may use all necessary means to 
enforce the provisions of this act for the preven- 
tion of contagious and infectious diseases, or the 
orders of any board of health made in pursuance 
thereof. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 123, § 4.] 
§ 4718. Warrants for Removal of Infected Person 
or Impressment of Necessaries. 
Any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in 
criminal cases shall issue a warrant upon affidavit 
of any member of the county, municipal, or State 
Board of Health, or the executive officer of the 
board of health, directing the warrant to the sher- 
iff of the county or his deputy, or to any constable 
or police officer, requiring them under the direc- 
tion of the board to remove any person who is 
infected with a contagious or communicable dis- 
ease, or to impress and take up convenient houses, 
lodging, nurses, attendants, and other necessaries. 
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§ 4719. Board of Health to Provide for Quaran- 
tined Person-Expenses. 
When a house or other place is quarantined on 
account of contagious disease, it shall be the duty 
of the board of health having jurisdiction to pro- 
vide for all persons confined in such place, food, 
fuel, and all of the necessaries of life, including 
medical attendance, medicine, and nurses, when 
necessary; and the expenses so incurred when 
properly certified by the executive officer of such 
board shall be paid by the person or persons quar- 
antined, a rhen able to make such payment men- 
tioned ; if not able to pay, to be paid by the county 
or municipality in which he or they were quaran- 
tined. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 123, § 6.] 
§ 4720. Occupant of House Where Contagious Dis- 
eases Not to Attend Public Gathering. 
No person residing in or occupying any house in 
which there is a person suffering from smallpox, 
cholera, plague, typhus fever, diphtheria, mem- 
branous croup, or scarlet fever, shall be permitted 
to attend any public, private, or parochial school 
or college or Sunday school, or any other public 
gathering until the quarantine provided for in 
such disease has been removed by the board of 
health. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 124, § 7.] 
§ 4721. Quarantine Hospital-Emergency Seizure. 
Any city or municipality may establish a quar- 
antine hospital within or without its own limits, 
but if within its own limits, consent of the munici- 
pality within which it is proposed to establish such 
hospital shall be first obtained; provided, that such 
consent shall not be necessary if such hospital is 
more than eight hundred feet from any occupied 
house or public highway; and when a great emer- 24 
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gency exists the board of health may seize and 
occupy and temporarily for such quarantine hos- 
pital any suitable vacant house or building within 
its jurisdiction, and the board of health of any city 
or municipality having a quarantine hospital shall 
have control of the same; provided, however, that 
in case of use of such house or premises, that due 
compensation shall be tendered for the use of the 
same. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 124, § 8.] 
§ 4722. Carriers to Submit to Quarantine Regula- 
tions-Penalties. 
Whenever quarantine is declared, all railroads, 
steamboats, or other common carriers, and the 
owners, consignees, or the assignees of any rail- 
road, steamboat, stage, or other vehicle used for 
the transportation of passengers, baggage, or 
freight, shall submit to any rules or regulations 
imposed by the board of health, or health officer; 
they shall submit to any examinations required by 
the health authorities respecting any circum- 
stances or event touching the health of the crew, 
operatives, or passengers, and the sanitary condi- 
tion of the baggage or freight; and any owner, 
consignee, or assignee, or other person interested 
as aforesaid, who makes any unfounded statement 
or declaration respecting the points under exam- 
ination, shall, upon conviction thereof before any 
court or justice of the peace having jurisdiction, 
be subjected to the penalties herein provided for 
the violation of the requirements of this act and 
the orders of the State, county or municipal boards 
of health. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 124, § 9.] 
§ 4723. County May Quarantine Against Other 
County-Enforcement. 
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or adjoining states, subject to approval of the 
State Board of Health, when any infectious dis- 
ease exists, if in its judgment it is deemed neces- 
sary, and shall also have power to quarantine any 
case of infectious or communicable diseases within 
the county; it shall have authority to call all 
police officers, sheriffs, and constables, and all 
county officers to enforce such quarantine, subject 
to the authority of the State Health Officer. [L. 
1907, c. 70, p. 124, § 10.] 
§ 4724. Power of State Board of Health on De- 
fault of Local Board. 
When for some reason the city or municipal 
board of health do not exist or should be inoper- 
ative, the State Board of Health shall have power 
and shall order nuisances, or the cause of any spe- 
cial disease or mortality, to be abated and 
removed. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 124, § 11.] 
§ 4725. State Board of Health May Inspect Con- 
veyances Entering State. 
Whenever there shall exist in the opinion of the 
State Board of Health, imminent danger of the 
introduction of contagious or infectious disease 
into the State of Oregon, by means of railroad, 
steamboat, or other communication with other 
states, the said State board are authorized, and it 
is hereby made their duty to make, through their 
executive officer or some member of the board, or 
accredited inspector or agent, an inspection of all 
railroad cars, steamboats or other conveyances 
coming into the State, at such points or between 
such points within the State limits, as may be 
selected for this purpose. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 125, 
§12.] 26 
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§ 4726. Inspection, How Made. 
Such inspection shall be made, where practical, 
during the ordinary detention of a train at a sta- 
tion, or while in transit between stations, or if a 
steamboat while in port, and in all cases shall be 
so conducted as to occasion the least possible 
detention or interruption of travel or inconven- 
ience to the railroad companies or steamship com- 
panies, so far as consistent with the purposes of 
this act. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 125, § 13.] 
§ 4727. Procedure on Discovery of Disease. 
Should the discovery be made of the existence 
among the passengers of any case or cases of dan- 
gerous, contagious, or infectious disease, the said 
board of health, or their agent or inspector, under 
rules and conditions prescribed by the State Board 
of Health, as being applicable to the nature of the 
disease, shall have power to cause the sidetracking 
or detention of any car or cars so infected, or if a 
steamboat, detain in port, to isolate the sick or 
remove them to a suitable place for treatment, to 
establish a suitable station, to cause the passengers 
and material in such infected car or steamboat to 
be subjected to disinfection and cleansing before 
proceeding further into the State, and in case of 
smallpox or diphtheria, to offer free vaccination 
or free immunization, as the case may be, to all 
persons exposed in any car or at any station or 
port. Should any question arise as to the exist- 
ence of any emergency the State Board of Health 
shall have final jurisdiction. [L. 1907, c. 70, 
p. 125, § 14.] 
§ 4728. Penalty for Violation of Act or of Regula- 
tions of Health Board. 
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established by this act as hereinbefore set forth, or 
failing to comply with any orders of the health 
board named herein, given for the purpose of 
enforcing said rules, regulations, and provisions, 
shall upon conviction thereof be required to pay a 
fine of not more than $500 at the discretion of the 
court. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 125, § 15.] 
§ 4729. Powers of Secretary of State Board of 
Health. 
The secretary of the State Board of Health be, 
and is hereby authorized and empowered to 
enforce all the provisions of this act, and if neces- 
sary he is authorized to appear before any magis- 
trate empowered to issue warrants in criminal 
cases, and require such magistrate to issue war- 
rant, directing it to any sheriff or deputy or any 
constable or policeman, to remove any person or 
persons, or obstacle, or to defend any threatened 
violence to the health officer, upon entering private 
property, or to assist the health officer in any way 
to carry out the provisions and intents of this act. 
[L. 1907, c. 70, p. 125, § 16.] 
§ 4730. Appropriation, How Applied. 
There is hereby appropriated out of the general 
funds of the State of Oregon, the sum of $1,000 
annually, or so much thereof as is necessary from 
any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to be 
placed in the hands of the secretary of the State 
Board of Health, for the purpose of carrying out 
the stipulations offered in Section 4727; providing 
for the purchase of vaccine virus and diphtheria 
anti-toxin, not only to be used for this purpose, 
but for any other purpose in the State where an 
emergency exists and no available funds are at 
hand for the purchase of vaccine virus and diph- 
theria anti-toxin. [L. 1907, c. 70, p. 125, § 17.] 28 
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LAWS 1911, PAGE 177, CHAPTER 130. 
AN ACT 
To provide funds for the protection of the State of Oregon 
from the spread of Bubonic Plague, Cholera, and other 
menacing Asiatic diseases. 
Whereas, An introduction of bubonic plague, 
cholera and other menacing Asiatic diseases in 
Oregon as is now threatened by the ravages of 
these pestilences in Chinese ports, would be a 
serious blow to the health and welfare of Ore- 
gon, and would cost the State an untold amount 
to eradicate them, if once a foothold should be 
gained in this State; and, 
Whereas, It is necessary to take immediate steps 
to prevent the spread of these pestilences to our 
coast from Chinese ports; therefore 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: 
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the 
State of Oregon: 
Section 1. There is hereby annually appropri- 
ated from any funds in the general fund of the 
State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the 
sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to be used 
for the prevention of the spread of bubonic plague, 
cholera and other menacing Asiatic diseases now 
prevalent in China, which through the channels 
of commerce, today seriously threaten the health 
and welfare of the State of Oregon. The amount 
appropriated hereunder shall be audited and paid 
as provided by Section 2624 of Lord's Oregon 
Laws as amended by the legislative assembly for 
the year 1911. 
Filed in the office of the Secretary of State 
February 20, 1911. HEALTH LAWS OF OREGON. 
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TITLE XXXII, CHAPTER V, LORD'S OREGON 
LAWS. 
OF DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDS. 
§ 4052. Duties of Board-Enumerated. 
The duties of school boards shall be: 
12. Power in Case of Contagious Disease.-Any 
board of directors may, on account of the preva- 
lence of any contagious disease or to prevent the 
spread of such contagious disease, prohibit the 
attendance of any teacher or scholar upon any 
school under their control and may specify the 
time during which such teacher or scholar shall 
remain away from such school, and may prohibit 
the attendance of any unvaccinated child, who has 
not had the smallpox, upon the schools under 
their control, and shall also have power to decide 
how far re-vaccination shall be required if a case 
or cases of smallpox have occurred in the city or 
district; 
13. Sanitation and Cleanliness.-It shall be the 
duty of all boards of directors in this State to pro- 
vide suitable and convenient water-closets or 
privies for each of the schools under their charge, 
at least two in number, which shall be entirely 
separate each from the other, and having separate 
means of access. It shall be the duty of the school 
officers aforesaid to keep the same in a clean, 
chaste, and wholesome condition, and to clear the 
school ground of brush and other obstructions to a 
good view of the premises; and a failure to comply 
with the provisions of this subdivision on the part 
of the board of directors shall be sufficient grounds 
for removal from office and for withholding from 
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tax of the county. The expense incurred by the 
officers aforesaid in carrying out the requirements 
of this subdivision shall be a charge upon the dis- 
trict, and a tax may be levied therefor without a 
vote of the district. 
LAWS 1911, PAGE 123, CHAPTER 82. 
AN ACT 
To authorize School Boards to prohibit the attendance upon 
any school of any pupil affected with vermin or unclean- 
liness. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: 
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the 
State of Oregon: 
Section 1. Any board of directors may prohibit 
the attendance of any vermin-infected or unsani- 
tary pupil upon the schools under their control, 
and said board of directors may require the city or 
county health officer to make an examination of 
any pupil who may be suspected of having any 
vermin, or of being in an unsanitary condition of 
the body or clothing, and may require the parents 
or guardian of such pupil to put such pupil in a 
sanitary condition before returning to school. 
Filed in the office of the Secretary of State 
February 17, 1911. 
LORD'S OREGON LAWS. 
§ 4824. Disinfection Required-Penalty. 
Any person who shaves another person afflicted 
with syphilis, eczema, blood poison, or any skin 
disease, who does not, before he again uses his 
tools, towels, or water, subject them to disinfec- HEALTH LAWS OF OREGON. 
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tion as may remove any virus, scale, or filth that 
may be on such tools, towels, or instrument, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished 
as provided in Section 4823 of this act. [L. 1899, 
p. 240; B. & C. § 3852; L. 1903, p. 32, § 11.] 
§ 4829. Sale of Adulterated Food Prohibited. 
No person shall within this State manufacture 
for sale, have in his possession with the intent to 
sell, offer, or expose for sale, or sell any article of 
food which is adulterated, within the meaning of 
this act. [L. 1905, c. 209, p. 349, § 4.] 
§ 4830. "Food" Defined. 
The term "food" as used herein, shall include 
all articles used for food or drink, or intended to 
be eaten or drunk by men, whether simple, mixed 
or compound. [L. 1905, c. 209, p. 349, § 5.] 
LAWS 1911, PAGE 323, CHAPTER 201. 
AN ACT 
Defining adulteration of and establishing standards for 
certain dairy products. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: 
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the 
State of Oregon: 
Section 1., That condensed or evaporated milk 
or cream shall be deemed adulterated within the 
meaning of existing laws against the adulteration 
of foods, drinks, and drugs, if such articles or any 
of them shall not conform with the following 
definitions and standards: 
(a) Condensed milk, evaporated milk, is milk 
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been evaporated and contains not less than 23 per 
cent of milk solids and not less than 7.6 per cent 
of milk fat; provided, that any condensed milk, 
evaporated milk containing 23 per cent total solids 
and less than 24 per cent total solids shall contain 
a minimum of 7.9 per cent of milk fat; and any 
condensed milk, evaporated milk containing 24 
per cent total solids and less than 25 per cent 
total solids shall contain a minimum of 7.8 per 
cent milk fat; and any condensed milk, evaporated 
milk containing 25 per cent total solids and less 
than 26 per cent total solids shall contain a mini- 
mum of 7.7 per cent milk fat; and any condensed 
milk, evaporated milk containing the minimum of 
7.6 per cent milk fat shall contain a minimum of 
26 per cent total solids. 
(b j Sweetened condensed milk is milk from 
which a considerable portion of water has been 
evanorated and to which sugar (sucrose) has been 
added and contains not less than 26 per cent of 
milk solids and not less than 7.6 per cent of milk 
fat. 
(c) Condensed skim milk from which a consid- 
erable portion of water has been evaporated. 
(d) Evanorated cream (clotted cream) is cream 
from which a considerable portion of water has 
been evanorated. 
(e) All laws or parts of laws in conflict with 
this act are hereby repealed. 
Filed in the office of the Secretary of State 
February 23, 1911. 
§ 4838. Sale or Use of Adulterants and Preserva- 
tives Prohibited. 
No person, firm or corporation shall manufac- 
ture for sale, advertise, offer or expose for sale, or 
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an adulterant of or preservative of milk, butter, or 
cheese, nor shall any person, firm, or corporation- 
add to milk, or butter, or cheese, or during the 
process of their manufacture, any borax, boric 
acid, dalicyclic acid, formaldehyde, formalin, or 
any other substance or substances in the nature of 
adulterants, antiferments, or preservatives; pro- 
vided, however, that this section shall not apply to 
pure salt, added to butter and cheese. [L. 1905, 
c. 209, p. 352, § 13.] 
§ 2224. Penalty for Selling Unwholesome Pro- 
visions. 
If any person shall knowingly sell any kind of 
diseased, corrupted, or unwholesome provisions, 
whether for meat or drink, without making the 
same fully known to the buyer, such person, upon 
conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprison- 
ment in the county jail not less than three months 
nor more than one year, or by fine not less than 
$50 nor more than $500. [L. 1864; D. § 685; D. 
& L. § 718; H. § 1978; B. & C. § 2118.] 
§ 2225. Adulterating Provisions With Injurious 
Substance. 
If any person shall adulterate for the purpose of 
sale any substance intended for meat or drink 
with any substance injurious to health, or shall 
sell or offer for sale any substance so intended, 
knowing the same to be so adulterated, such per- 
son, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in 
the manner provided in Section 2224. [L. 1864; 
D. § 686; D. & L. § 719; H. § 1979; B. & C. § 2119.] 
§ 2226. Adulterating Drugs so as to Render Inju- 
rious to Health. 
If any person shall adulterate for the purpose of 
sale any drug or medicine, in such manner as to 
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render the same injurious to health, or shall 
knowingly sell or offer for sale any such adulter- 
ated drug or medicine, such person, upon convic- 
tion thereof, shall be punished in the manner pro- 
vided in Section 2224, and such adulterated drugs 
or medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed. [L. 
1864; D. § 687; D. & L. § 720; H. § 1980; B. & C. 
§ 2120.] 
§ 2227. Unwholesome Foods and Medicines, Sale 
of Unlawful. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
to sell or exchange, or expose for sale or exchange 
any unwholesome, unclean, tainted, or diseased 
foods or medicines of any kind whatever. [L. 
1893, p. 99, § 2; B. & C. § 2121.] 
§ 2228. Penalty for Violation of Last Section. 
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this 
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than $25 nor more than $100, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
thirty days nor more than six months. Justices' 
courts shall have jurisdiction of all cases arising 
under this act. [L. 1893, p. 100, § 5; B. & C. 
§ 2122.] 
§ 2229. Innocent Purchasers of Adulterated Prod- 
ucts, Requirement From. 
If any person or persons shall have purchased 
foods, drinks, medicines, or fertilizers, believing 
them to be pure and unadulterated, which shall 
prove by analysis or tests to be adulterated, such 
person or persons shall not be deemed guilty under 
this act; provided, that such person or persons pay 
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sum of $10 in case of analysis or $5.00 for each 
test made by him to determine the quality of such 
foods, drinks, medicines, or fertilizers, as the case 
may be, and who shall, after being informed of 
such adulteration, at once mark the same as 
required by Section 2227; all moneys collected by 
the commissioner for making analysis shall be 
paid by the commissioner to the State Agricultural 
College for making tests, to be credited to the 
State, and become a part of the State appropria- 
tion to defray the expenses of the enforcement of 
this act. [L. 1893, p. 100, § 6; B. & C. § 2123.] 
§ 2233. Adulterated Candy, Sale of, Prohibited. 
That no person shall, by himself, his servants, 
or agent, or as servant or agent of any other per- 
son, persons, or corporation, manufacture for sale, 
or knowingly sell or offer to sell any candy or 
other confectionery adulterated by the admixture 
of terra alba, barytes, talc, or any other mineral 
substance, or by poisonous colors or flavors or 
other ingredients injurious or detrimental to the 
health of consumers. [L. 1899, p. 45, § 1; B. & C. 
§ 2124.] 
§ 2234. Penalty for Adulterating Candy. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of 
this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by 
a fine not exceeding $100 or sentenced to the 
county jail for a period not exceeding six months; 
and, in addition to said fine or punishment, the 
candy so adulterated shall be forfeited and 
destroyed by order of the court having jurisdic- 
tion of the offense. Justices' courts shall have 
jurisdiction of all cases arising under this act. 
[L. 1899, p. 45, § 2; B. & C. § 2125.] 36 
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§ 2237. Polluting With Sewage, Etc., Water for 
Domestic Use Unlawful. 
Any person who shall put any sewerage, drain- 
age or refuse, or polluting matter, as either by 
itself or in connection with other matter will cor- 
rupt or impair the quality of any well, spring, 
brook, cvreek, branch, or pond of water, which is 
used or may be used for domestic purposes, shall 
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor. [L. 1885, 
p.110, § 1; H. § 1981; B. & C. s 2128.J 
§ 2238. Animal Carcass, Etc., Unlawful to Place 
in Water for Domestic Use or Near 
Dwelling. 
If any person shall put any dead animal carcass 
or part thereof, excrement, putrid, nauseous, 
noisome, decaying, deleterious, or offensive sub- 
stance into, or in any other manner not herein 
named befouls, pollutes, or impairs the quality of, 
any spring, brook, creek, branch, well, or pond of 
water which is or may be used for domestic pur- 
poses, or shall put any such dead animal carcass, 
or part thereof, excrement, putrid, nauseous, 
noisome, decaying, deleterious, or offensive sub- 
stance within one-half mile of any dwelling house 
or public highway and leave the same without 
nroper burial, or, being in the possession or con- 
trol of any land, shall knowingly permit or suffer 
any such dead animal carcass, or part thereof, 
excrement, putrid, nauseous, noisome, decaying, 
deleterious, or offensive substance to remain with- 
out proper burial upon such premises, within one- 
half mile of any dwelling house or public highway 
whereby the same becomes offensive to the occu- 
pants of such dwelling or the traveling public, he 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. [L. 
1885, p. 110, § 2; L. 1889, p. 29; H. § 1982; B. & 
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§ 2239. Penalty for Violating Preceding Provis- 
ions, and Jurisdiction to Enforce. 
Any person violating the provisions of this act 
shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $10 
nor more than $50, or be imprisoned not less than 
five days nor more than twenty-five days, or by 
both fine and imprisonment. Justices of the 
peace shall have jurisdiction of offenses commit- 
ted against the provisions of this act. [L. 1885, 
p. 110, §§ 3, 4; H. § 1983; B. & C. § 2130.] 
§ 2240. Polluting Water Used for Domestic Pur- 
poses, or to Which Live Stock Have 
Access, Unlaw fid. 
If any person or persons shall put any dead 
animal's carcass, or part thereof, or any excre- 
ment, putrid, nauseous, decaying, deleterious, or 
offensive substance, in any well, or into any 
spring, brook, or branch of running water, of 
which use is made for domestic purposes, or to 
which any cattle, horses, or other kind of stock 
have access, every person so offending shall, on 
conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less 
than $3.00 nor more than $50. [L. 1889, p. 89, 
§ 1; L. 1891, p. 98; B. & C. §2131.] 
§ 2241. Polluting Water Used for Municipal Sup- 
ply of Adjoining State. 
Any person who shall place or cause to be 
placed within any watershed from which any city 
or municipal corporation of any adjoining State 
obtains its water supply, any substance which 
either by itself or in connection with other mat- 
ter will corrupt, pollute, or impair the quality 
of said water supply, or the owner of any dead 
animal who shall knowingly leave or cause to be 
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any such watershed in such condition as to in 
any way corrupt or pollute such water supply, 
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon 
conviction shall be punished by fine in any sum 
not exceeding $500. [L. 1909, c. 182, p. 256, § 2.] 
§ 2242. Unclean Slaughterhouses, Penalty for Per- 
mitting to Remain. 
If any owner or owners, occupier or occupiers 
of any slaughterhouse, or of any premises where 
hogs, beeves, or other animals are slaughtered, 
shall permit the same to remain unclean, to the 
annoyance of the people of this State, or any 
of them, every person so offending shall be fined 
for every such offense any sum not less than 
$5.00 nor more than $50; and if said nuisance 
be not removed within five days thereafter, it 
shall be deemed a second offense against the pro- 
visions of this act, and every like neglect of each 
succeeding five days thereafter shall be considered 
an additional offense against the provisions of 
this act. [L. 1889, p. 89, § 2; B. & C. § 2132.] 
§ 2243. Animal Carcass, Unlawful to Put m River, 
or Elsewhere to Injury of Health. 
If any person or persons shall put any part of 
the carcass of any dead animal into any river, 
creek, pond, road, street, alley, lane, lot, field, 
meadow, or common, or if the owner or owners 
thereof shall knowingly permit the same to re- 
main in any of the aforesaid places, to the injury 
of the health or to the annoyance of the citizens 
Ox this State, or any of them, every person so 
offending shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in 
a sum not less than $2.00 nor more than $25, and 
every twenty-four hours during which said owner 
may permit the same to remain thereafter shall 39 
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be deemed an additional offense against the pro- 
visions of this act. [L. 1889, p. 89, § 3; B. & C. 
§ 2133.] 
§ 2244. Inoculating Oneself or Another With Dan- 
gerous Disease. 
If any person shall inoculate himself or suffer 
himself to be inoculated, or shall inoculate an- 
other, with the smallpox or any other malignant 
or infectious disease, within this State, or being 
so inoculated shall come within this State with 
the intent to cause the prevalence or spread of 
such disease within this State, such person, upon 
conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprison- 
ment in the penitentiary not less than one year 
nor more than three years. [L. 1864; D. § 688; 
D. & L. § 721; H. § 1984; B. & C. § 2134.] 40 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE OREGON 
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
RULE 1. 
It shall be the duty of every practicing physi- 
cian in the State of Oregon to report to the county 
health officer, or to the health officer of the muni- 
cipal corporation in which such diseases are found, 
within twenty-four hours, by the quickest means 
of communication, a report of all cases of diph- 
theria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, cholera, 
typhus fever, typhoid fever, smallpox, measles, 
cerebro-spinal meningitis, ophthalmia neonato- 
rum, infantile paralysis, bubonic plague, leprosy, 
barber's itch, and tuberculosis, within his juris- 
diction. 
RULE 2. 
It shall be the duty of all practicing physicians 
and all municipal officers, including deputy coun- 
ty health officers, to make a report to the county 
health officer, of all deaths, with causes thereof, 
occurring within the limits of their respective 
jurisdiction during the next preceding calendar 
month. 
rule 3. 
It shall be the duty of the superintendent of any 
State institution, and of the superintendent of any 
children's home or any other institution of public 
nature, to report to the secretary of the State 
Board of Health any of the diseases named in Rule 
1, and in accordance to the time mentioned in 
Rule 5. 
rule 4. 
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taken place, to report rhe same to the county 
health officer, on a suitable blank provided for 
that purpose, not later than the fifth day of each 
month during the next preceding calendar month. 
RULE 5. 
It shall be the duty of each county health officer 
to furnish to the secretary of the State Board of 
Health, on or before the tenth day of each month, 
a report of all marriages, contagious diseases, 
births and deaths, with the cause of death, occur- 
ring within the limits of the county during the 
next preceding calendar month. All cases of small- 
pox or other contagious disease of alarming pro- 
portions must be reported at once. 
BURIAL PERMITS AND TRANSPORTATION OF 
THE DEAD. 
RULE 6. 
It shall be the duty of all county health officers 
to deputize each and every individual within his 
jurisdiction who sells or handles caskets or under- 
takers' material as a deputy county health officer, 
and to supply him with blanks for issuing burial 
permits upon application, when accompanied by a 
certificate from a practicing physician, or, in the 
absence of the attendance of a physician, from a 
householder, as to the probable cause of death. 
If, in his opinion, there is no reason why an 
investigation as to the cause of death should be 
made one of official inquiry, then he shall issue a 
burial permit and keep either a carbon copy or a 
stub record of the same and make a report to the 
county health officer not later than the fifth day of 
each month, the report covering the deaths occur- 
ring in the preceding calendar month, with certifi- 42 
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cates of death and cause of death as issued by the 
physician or householder. 
RULE 7. 
The transportation by railway or steamboat of 
bodies dead of smallpox, Asiatic cholera, yellow 
fever, typhus fever, bubonic plague, or leprosy, is 
absolutely forbidden. 
RULE 8. 
Bodies of persons dead of diphtheria, scarlet 
fever, or any other highly infectious or contagious 
disease, shall not be transported by railway or 
steamboat, unless prepared and shipped in accord- 
ance with the following directions: 
1. A permit must be first obtained from the 
county health officer, or his deputy, where the 
death occurred, and from the health officer where 
the burial or cremation is to take place; 
2. The body must be prepared for shipment by 
being thoroughly disinfected by arterial and cavity 
injection with an approved disinfectant fluid, dis- 
infecting and stopping all the orifices with absorb- 
ent cotton, and washing the body with the disin- 
fectant. After being disinfected as above, such 
body shall be enveloped in a layer of cotton, not 
less than one inch thick, securely wrapped in a 
sheet, and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper, 
or lead-lined coffin or iron casket, all joints and 
seams hermetically soldered and all inclosed in a 
strong, tight wooden box. Or, the body being pre- 
pared for shipment by disinfecting and wrapping 
as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket 
and said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight 
zinc, copper, or tin case, all joints and seams her- 
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3. The health officer where death occurred must 
certify, in writing, that the body has been pre- 
pared in the manner provided above. 
rule 9. 
The bodies of those dead of diseases that are 
not contagious, infectious, or communicable, may 
be received for transportation when encased in a 
sound coffin or casket and inclosed in a strong 
outside wooden box; provided, they reach their 
destination within thirty hours from the time of 
death. If the body will not reach its destination 
within thirty hours from the time of death, it must 
be prepared for shipment by filling cavities with 
an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of 
the body with the same, stopping all orifices with 
absorbent cotton, and enveloping the entire body 
with a layer of cotton, not less than one inch thick, 
and all securely wrapped in a sheet. 
RULE 10. 
The body of a person dead of diphtheria, or 
scarlet fever, may be shipped to Oregon from other 
states or provinces by permission of the county 
health officer, or municipal health officer, where 
the body is to be buried or cremated; provided, the 
body has been prepared in accordance with these 
regulations, or by an undertaker duly licensed to 
prepare such by the board of health of the state or 
province from which the body comes. 
rule 11. 
Every dead body must be accompanied by a per- 
son in charge, who must be provided with a pass- 
age ticket and also present a full first class ticket, 
marked "corpse," for the transportation of the 
body, and a transit permit showing physician's or 
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moval, undertaker's certificate, name of deceased, 
date and hour of death, age, place of death; and if 
of a contagious, infectious, or communicable na- 
ture, the point to which the body is to be shipped; 
and when death is caused by any of the diseases 
specified in Rule 8, the name of those authorized 
by the health authorities to accompany the body. 
The transit permit must be made in duplicate, and 
the signatures of the physician or coroner, health 
officer, and undertaker must be on both the ori- 
ginal and duplicate copies. The undertaker's cer- 
tificate and paster of the original shall be detached 
from the transit permit and pasted on the coffin 
box. The physician's certificate and transit per- 
mit shall be handed to the passenger. The whole 
duplicate copy shall be sent to the official in charge 
of the baggage department of the initial line, and 
by him to the secretary of the state or provincial 
board of health of the state or province from which 
said shipment was made. 
RULE 12. 
When dead bodies are shipped by express the 
whole original transit permit shall be placed upon 
the outside of the box and the duplicate forwarded 
by the express agent to the secretary of the state 
or provincial board of health of the state or prov- 
ince from which said shipment was made. 
RULE 13. 
Every disinterred body dead from any disease 
or cause shall be treated as infectious or danger- 
ous to the public health and must not be accepted 
tor transportation, unless said removal has been 
approved by the state or provincial board of health 
having jurisdiction where such body is to be dis- 
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of the locality to which the corpse is consigned has 
first been obtained, and all such disinterred re- 
mains must be inclosed in a hermetically sealed 
(soldered) zinc, tin, or copper lined coffin or box. 
Bodies deposited in receiving vaults will be treat- 
ed and considered the same as buried bodies. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 
RULE 14. 
No person suffering from diphtheria, membran- 
ous croup, scarlet fever, smallpox, measles, whoop- 
ing cough, bubonic plague, leprosy, or other dan- 
gerous communicable disease shall be admitted 
into any public, parochial, or private school, or 
college or Sunday school, or shall enter any assem- 
blage or railway car, vessel, or steamer, or other 
public conveyance. 
RULE 15. 
No person shall be permitted into any public, 
parochial, or private school, or college or Sunday 
school, from any house or building in which has 
recently occurred a case of dangerous communica- 
ble disease, without first presenting a certificate, 
signed by a reputable physician, that all danger of 
communicating such disease is past. 
RULE 16. 
No parent, guardian, or other person having 
charge or control of any child or children, shall 
allow or permit any child or children to go from 
any house or building in which a case of smallpox, 
diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, 
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recently occurred until such house or building has 
been properly disinfected, and quarantine has 
been removed by the health officer. 
BULE 17. 
It shall be the duty of every physician called to 
attend a person sick, or suspected of being sick, or 
in the absence of a physician, every householder, 
wherein such sickness is found, to report in writ- 
ing within twenty-four hours thereafter, giving 
the name and residence of all cases of cholera, 
yellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria, membranous 
croup, scarlet fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, 
or bubonic, or any other contagious disease, to the 
county health officer, or other health officer who 
has jurisdiction in the territory. 
RULE 18. 
It shall be the duty of the county health officer, 
when a case of smallpox, yellow fever, typhoid 
fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever 
or measles is reported within his jurisdiction, to 
place, or caused to be placed, in a conspicuous 
place, at both front and rear of premises wherein 
any of the aforesaid diseases occur, a quarantine 
card or flag, not less than twelve by twenty-four 
inches, upon which is printed in large letters the 
name of the disease or the word "Contagious." If 
a flag be used the color shall be, in case of small- 
pox, yellow; diphtheria, green; scarlet fever, red; 
bubonic plague, black; and all other diseases, 
white. It shall be the further duty of the county 
health officer to prohibit entrance or exit from 
such house without his written permission. 
RULE 19. 
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fever, or any other contagious disease shall use 
every possible precaution to prevent communica- 
tion of the disease to others. It is urgently ad- 
vised by the board that physicians, wherever pos- 
sioly practicable, wear protective clothing when 
visiting such patients. 
RULE 20. 
Any house or building, and its contents, in 
which a case of smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, 
typhus fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, scar- 
let fever, measles, bubonic plague, typhoid fever 
or tuberculosis has occurred, shall be disinfected 
by the owner or occupant, under the supervision 
of the county or city health officer, or his deputy, 
in a manner recommended by the board of health. 
RULE 21. 
It is urgently advised by the State Health Board 
that all municipalities of one thousand or more 
population, should secure a cottage of at least four 
rooms, and upward, in proportion to their popula- 
tion, in which could be promptly isolated patients 
suffering from any form of contagious disease, 
together with a trained nurse, or member of their 
own family to serve as such, thus avoiding the 
necessity of quarantining the entire family, or 
detaining from his occupation the breadwinner of 
the family, permitting the house to be fumigated 
at once, and avoiding the exposure to continued 
danger of infection of other members of the family 
shut up with the patient in ordinary house quar- 
antine. 
RULE 22. 
The bodies of persons dead of smallpox, cholera, 
yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, membran- 
ous croup, scarlet fever, puerperal fever, measles, 48 
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erysipelas, bubonic plague, or leprosy, or other 
contagious or infectious disease, shall be wrapped 
in a sheet saturated with a solution of bichloride 
of mercury or formaldehyde, one ounce to the gal- 
lon of water, and shall be buried or cremated 
within twenty-four hours after death, except by 
written permission of the county health officer. 
RULE 23. 
No public or church funeral shall be held in con- 
nection with the burial of a person who has died of 
cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, diph- 
theria, or from any of the diseases mentioned in 
Rule 22, neither shall the body be taken into any 
church, chapel, or public place. 
RULE 24. 
It shall be the duty of all school boards in all 
the districts of whatever class in the State of Ore- 
gon, to prohibit the entrance into any of the pub- 
lic schools of the State, of all children not pre- 
viously vaccinated (the evidence of which is shown 
by the scar), without proper vaccination; and it 
shall be the duty of the teacher or teachers in any 
of the public schools of the State of Oregon to sat- 
isfy themselves that such order has been properly 
enforced; the evidence being a scar, or by a certifi- 
cate of vaccination signed by a reputable physi- 
cian. 
School books or books from a public library shall 
not be taken into the house where smallpox, typhus 
fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet 
fever, measles, or whooping cough exists, and if 
school books or library books have already been 
taken into the house, they must be destroyed by the 
owner or library authorities, or be properly disin- 
fected before they are again taken to school or 
placed in circulation. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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RULE 25. 
No person afflicted with tuberculosis shall be 
employed as teacher in any public, private, par- 
ochial school, or Sunday school. 
No child afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis 
or suppurating tubercular adinitis or suppurating 
hip or knee joint disease shall be allowed to attend 
any public, private or parochial school. 
No person suffering from pulmonary tubercu- 
losis shall be employed in any grocery store, bak- 
ery or confectionery or in any place where food 
stuffs are kept or offered for sale. 
QUARANTINE. 
RULE 26. 
No common carrier or other person shall bring 
into the State of Oregon any person sick or sus- 
pected to be sick with Asiatic cholera, smallpox, 
yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, membran- 
ous croup, scarlet fever, bubonic plague or any 
other dangerous, contagious or infectious disease. 
RULE 27. 
When any railway car, steamboat, sailing vessel 
or other conveyance coming from a place or local- 
ity declared by the State Board of Health to be 
infected with cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, yel- 
low fever, or bubonic plague, or having on board 
any person or persons affected with any of the 
above-named diseases, enters any port or place in 
the State of Oregon, such railway car, steamboat, 
sailing vessel or other conveyance, and the crew, 
officers, passengers, baggage, merchandise, and 
freight shall be subject to such inspection and 
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disinfection as may be ordered by the State Board 
of Health. The expense of such disinfection must 
be borne by the common carrier or persons bring- 
ing such a disease into the State. 
RULE 28. 
If any person is found on any railway car, 
steamboat, sailing vessel, or other conveyance, who 
is sick or expected to be sick with any of the dis- 
eases named in Rule 27, he or she shall be removed 
by the health authorities within whose jurisdiction 
such person is found, and isolated and properly 
cared for until the termination of the disease; and 
the necessary expense of such isolation and care, if 
the person so removed is unable to pay the same, 
shall be a valid claim against and be refunded by 
the owners, agents, or assignees of the railway 
car, steamboat, or sailing vessel, or other convey- 
ance from which said person or persons were re- 
moved. 
RULE 29. 
It shall be the duty of the conductor of any rail- 
way car, and of the master or pilot of any steam- 
boat or sailing vessel, and of the driver of other 
conveyances, going into a place or port within the 
State of Oregon, to immediately notify, by tele- 
graph or telephone, the secretary of the State 
Board of Health of any case of suspected case of 
cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, or 
bubonic plague occurring on such train, convey- 
ance, or vessel within the limits of the State of 
Oregon. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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RULES OF THE OREGON STATE BOARD OF HEALTH 
FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 
The isolation and duration of quarantine in con- 
tagious diseases shall be as follows: 
Asiatic Cholera.-For the patient quarantine 
until after complete recovery and disinfection of 
premises. For exposed persons quarantine for 
five (5) days from date of last exposure. 
Smallpox.-For the patient quarantine for not 
less than twenty-one (21) days after the beginning 
of the disease and until all crusts or scales have 
fallen off or been removed and the disinfection of 
the patient and premises. For exposed persons 
quarantine for fourteen (14) days from date of 
last exposure unless successfully vaccinated and 
person and clothing disinfected, or protected by a 
previous attack of the disease and person and 
clothing disinfected. Provided, that persons who 
have not been successfully vaccinated previously 
and who shall submit to vaccination may be re- 
leased from quarantine after disinfection of per- 
son and clothing, when evidence occurs that the 
said vaccination is successful. 
Scarlet Fever.-For the patient and children 
associated with or in the family with the patient, 
quarantine for not less than thirty (30) days 
after the beginning of the disease and until com- 
plete desquamation or scaling of the skin of the 
patient. Isolation of the patient and children as- 
sociated with the patient for ten (10) days after 
removal of quarantine. Patient shall not be per- 
mitted to re-enter school until twenty-one (21) 
days after quarantine is removed. Other children 
in the family may be disinfected and removed to 52 
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another house and shall be there isolated for a 
period of ten (10) days and then released, pro- 
vided, they remain free from the disease. For 
adults living in the family with or exposed to the 
patient, while the house remains quarantined, un- 
less said adults submit to thorough disinfection of 
their clothing and removal from the premises dur- 
ing the time said quarantine is maintained. 
Diphtheria.-For the patient quarantine for not 
less than fourteen (14) days after the beginning 
of the disease. For persons associated with or in 
the family with the patient, quarantine until after 
death or recovery of the patient and disinfection 
of clothing and premises. Provided that other 
children in the family who shall receive an im- 
munizing dose of anti-toxin may be released from 
quarantine at the discretion of the board of health 
after disinfection of person and clothing. Adult 
members of the family may be released from quar- 
antine on condition that clothing shall be disin- 
fected by the health officer. 
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.-For the 
patient isolation from the rest of the family. Quar- 
antine of not less than fourteen (14) days after 
the first appearance of the disease and until death 
or recovery of the patient, and disinfection of the 
premises. Persons living in the house where the 
disease is present should not mingle with the gen- 
eral public until the disease has terminated. 
Bubonic Plague.-For the patient quarantine 
until recovery or death and disinfection of prem- 
ises. For exposed persons quarantine for eight 
(8) days from date of last exposure. 
Measles.-For the patient isolation and quaran- 
tine for not less than fourteen (14) days and until 
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(5) days after quarantine has been removed. For 
other members of the family, quarantine not 
required, but children of the household must not 
attend school or other public gatherings or mingle 
with other children, unless satisfactory proof shall 
be furnished to the Board of their having had the 
disease, in which event, the Board of Health may 
at its discretion permit the said children to attend 
school and other public gatherings. 
Anterior Poliomyelitis.-Isolation of child for at 
least three weeks with the quarantine of all the 
members of the family who come in contact with 
afflicted child and a thorough fumigation with 
destruction of all excreta and boiling or prefer- 
ably burning of bed occupied by the afflicted child. 
Chicken-Pox.-For the patient and children liv- 
ing in the family, quarantine for not less than 
fourteen (14) days from the beginning of the 
disease, and until all scales and crusts have dis- 
appeared. 
Mumps.-For the patient isolation and quaran- 
tine until recovery or death. For other members 
of family quarantine not required. It shall be 
the duty of every physician or other person caring 
for the sick to immediately make a report of all 
cases of mumps in his or her charge. 
Typhoid Fever, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis.-No 
placard required (unless by rules of the Board of 
Health to the contrary). The precautions and 
recommendations of the State Board of Health 
contained in the circulars pertaining to the said 
diseases should be strictly enforced. 
No quarantine of a contagious disease shall be 
removed until the attending physician has notified 
the local board of health that the case has recov- 
ered and is no longer liable to communicate the 
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attendance the local health officer may remove 
the same at the expiration of the quarantine period 
and recovery of the patient. 
UNDERTAKERS. 
RULE 30. 
All undertakers should secure appointments as 
deputy county health officers, according to Rule 6 
of these Regulations. 
RULE 31. 
Especial attention is called to Rules 6, 7, 8, 9, 
10, 11, 12, 13, 22, and 23 of these Regulations. 
RULE 32. 
In preparing a body dead from any contagious 
or infectious disease all discharges of whatsoever 
nature must be disinfected by one of the follow- 
ing solutions: Bichloride of mercury solution, 
one to one thousand; formaldehyde, one ounce to 
one gallon; chloride of lime, ten ounces to one 
gallon, or carbolic acid solution, one to twenty. 
All fluids drawn from the body must be done so 
directly into one of the above-named solutions of 
sufficient quantities to thoroughly disinfect such 
fluids. 
RULE 33. 
A special suit of duck should be worn while 
preparing a body dead from an infectious or con- 
tagious disease, and thoroughly disinfected after 
each time used by boiling for one hour or by 
immersion in bichloride of mercury solution, one 
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one gallon, for three hours. The hands, hair and 
face (avoiding the eyes) should be washed in a 
solution of bichloride of mercury, one to one 
thousand-rinsing in plain water immediately 
after. The shoes should be thoroughly disin- 
fected by wiping with the same solution. 
RULE 34. 
In the absence of the county health officer, or 
attending physician, the undertaker should direct 
and superintend the proper disinfection of the 
room or house and its contents. 
TRANSPORTATION OF DECEASED PERSONS IN 
BAGGAGE CARS. 
To Railroad Agents, Station and Train Baggage 
Men: 
You will in no case receive a corpse for trans- 
portation unless accompanied by a physician's, 
coroner's, or board of health certificate, also an 
undertaker's certificate that the body has been 
prepared for burial and shipment in accordance 
with the rules of the State Board of Health, nor 
will you receive it even with such certificates if 
fluids or offensive odors are escaping from the 
case. One full first class limited or unlimited 
ticket will be required for the transportation of a 
corpse, without regard to the age of the deceased, 
and the word "corpse" must be plainly written on 
the face of a local and on each coupon of a coupon 
ticket. A record must be made on the back of 
your station and trip reports, of all bodies shipped 
and carried, giving name of deceased and destin- 
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It will be the duty of agents and baggage agents 
to see that each burial case is properly marked 
on "paster," giving the date and at what station 
shipped, point of destination, "State," number 
and form of ticket, name of person in charge, 
and place of residence, with name of agent. If 
the corpse is destined to a point beyond the initial 
line, the initials of each road over which it passes 
must be written on the paster; also the terminal 
point of each road at which transfer is made with 
the connecting line, as shown on the coupons of 
the ticket. 
You will see that the "certificate of undertaker" 
is properly filled out by him, and that the paster 
is properly filled out by yourself and is securely 
fastened on the end of the coffin box before it is 
put into the car, and the permit remaining you 
will hand to the person in charge of the corpse. 
The whole form must be made in duplicate, 
either with pen, carbon paper or simplex paper, 
and the signatures of the physician or coroner 
and undertaker must be on both the original and 
duplicate copies. 
The undertaker's certificate and paster of the 
original will be detached from the physician's 
certificate and permit and fastened on the end 
of the coffin box. Tne physician's certificate and 
permit will be handed to the passenger. The 
whole duplicate copy will be sent to the general 
baggage agent of the initial road by first passen- 
ger train. 
All this information is necessary to insure the 
prompt and correct transportation of the corpse. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS. 
Instructions for securing and transmitting 
specimens for laboratory: 
WATER. 
Upon application, bacteriological analyses of 
water will be made for any resident of the State 
or municipal supplies. Sterilized containers will 
be sent with instructions for obtaining the sam- 
ples. 
The directions must be carefully observed if a 
true condition of the water is desired. It is a 
waste of time and material to make an analysis 
of a sample of water carelessly taken. 
In case water is to be sent in other containers, 
the following directions should be observed: 
In securing water for analysis, a new bottle and 
a new cork must be used. To sterilize, place the 
bottle and cork in a tea-kettle or other receptacle 
and boil for one hour. In removing the bot- 
tle and cork great care must be exercised that the 
fingers do not come in contact with the mouth 
of the bottle or with the part of the cork to be 
inserted in the bottle. This prepared receptacle 
is ready to be filled with the water for analysis, 
but extreme care must be taken that the water 
does not touch the fingers or any other object 
before it enters the mouth of the bottle. If from 
a well, a fair quantity should be • pumped out 
before securing the sample. If from a spring or 
stream, the bottle should be submerged for filling. 
Cork carefully; tie the cork securely; keep in a 
cool place, and transmit as soon as possible. For 
a bacteriological analysis, four ounces is sufficient. 
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good layer of sawdust in the bottom, then a thick 
piece of ice, cover this with a thin layer of saw- 
dust and lay the sample or samples of water on 
top, then fill the remainder of the box with saw- 
dust. Before sealing the box, cover the sawdust 
with paper to prevent its sifting out in transmis- 
sion. 
Samples of water should reach the laboratory 
before Saturday, as otherwise it involves Sunday 
work. 
SPUTUM. 
A specimen of sputum to be examined for 
Tubercle Bacilli must always be the first expec- 
toration in the morning. The mouth should be 
well rinsed before the specimen is taken. A wide- 
mouth bottle of about one ounce capacity is best 
suited for this purpose. The bottle must be 
securely corked and cork tied down. Mark the 
bottle plainly with name and address of the per- 
son from whom taken and the attending physi- 
cian. The bottle must be sent in a mailing case 
to comply with the postal regulations. 
In securing a subsequent specimen, the date of 
the preceding specimen should always be given. 
Expectorations from children do not always 
show the tubercle bacilli although they may be 
present. 
DIPHTHERIA. 
There is no disease that requires an earlier 
diagnosis than diphtheria. A microscopical exam- 
ination of a swabbing of the throat is not con- 
clusive nor reliable, for there are many other 
organisms that closely resemble the diphtheria 
bacillus, and are difficult to distinguish by the 
microscope alone. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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This has led to the use of Loeffler's blood serum, 
upon which the organisms are transferred from 
the diseased area of the patient's throat to the 
serum by the aid of a small sterile swab. 
To obtain the best results, a portion of the false 
membrane is removed with the swab and rubbed 
on the surface of the blood serum in the tube, the 
cotton plug and rubber cap is immediately 
replaced, and the swab destroyed by fire or strong 
antiseptics. 
The patient from whom the specimen is taken, 
should if possible not take milk, or gargle with 
antiseptics for at least one hour before. 
If blood serum tubes are not at hand, a piece 
of wire is heated to redness and wrapped with 
cotton to form a small swab. After securing the 
specimen as described, the swab is placed in a test 
tube or phial that has previously been well 
scalded, then corked, sealed and sent to the labor- 
atory where it is immediately used for inoculat- 
ing blood serum. 
The name and address of sender must be 
marked on the tube or container. 
If diagnosis is to be wired, the letter accom- 
panying the specimen should so state. 
BLOOD FOR TYPHOID. 
Upon request, tubes will be forwarded from this 
laboratory for collection of specimens of blood 
for widal reaction. If an early diagnosis is 
desired before the tubes can be obtained, a clean 
piece of glass may be smeared with a thin film of 
the patient's blood, allowing same to dry spon- 
taneously and forward in a mailing case. Instruc- 
tions should always accompany the specimen as 
to whether or not the patient has had a previous 
attack of typhoid fever as the blood will pro- 60 
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duce a reaction for a considerable period of time 
after an attack. 
A negative finding does not absolutely exclude 
possibility of typhoid fever and if deemed neces- 
sary, test will be repeated. 
Specimens of blood sent for this purpose must 
be properly labeled for desired examination. 
BLOOD FOR MALARIA. 
A perfectly clean microscope slide must be 
smeared with a very thin coating of the patient's 
blood which is best accomplished by puncturing 
the finger allowing the blood to flow freely and 
saturating a strip of cigarette paper, the width 
of the slide, draw it over the length of the slide 
leaving a thin film of blood which is dried spon- 
taneously. 
BLOOD FOR SYPHILIS. 
(From State institutions only.) 
Capillary tubes will be furnished for obtaining 
blood for the Wasserman test upon application. 
To draw the blood, puncture the thumb of the 
patient at the base of the nail until a good flow 
of blood is secured. Apply the curved end of the 
capillary tube to the blood until tube is com- 
pletely filled. The end of the tube may be sealed 
by heating in a flame from an alcohol lamp or 
match. Do not, under any consideration, heat 
the blood in the tube. 
State plainly what examination is desired of 
the blood. The tubes must be forwarded in mail- 
ing cases. 
SPECIMEN FOR VINCENTS' ANGINA. 
Remove the false membrane from the throat 
with a sterile swab such as used for diphtheria. 
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tube or phial properly sealed and forwarded in 
mailing case with instructions for examination 
desired. 
MILK. 
A sample of milk for a microscopical examina- 
tion should be part of the whole milking. The 
receptacle should be prepared as described for 
water samples, and after being filled should be 
forwarded as quickly as possible, in order that it 
may reach the laboratory before coagulation 
occurs. 
If the cow from which the sample is to be taken 
shows a tenderness or swelling in any part of the 
udder, the sample should be taken from the teat 
of the affected part. 
A sample of milk from any source for analysis 
should not be less than two ounces. 
Label plainly and state definitely what analysis 
is wished in order to prevent mistakes. 
BUBONIC PLAGUE. 
If a rat is sent to the laboratory suspected of 
having bubonic plague, it must first be dipped 
in a solution of corrosive sublimate of a strength 
of two parts of one thousand of water for the 
purpose of killing any fleas that may be on the 
body. 
The carcass must be packed in ice and for- 
warded by express with all the data and particu- 
lars that can be secured. 
SPECIMEN FOR ANTHRAX. 
In forwarding specimen for diagnosis of 
anthrax, a small phial of blood, a portion of the 
spleen and part of the liver must be sent. An 
ante mortem description of the disease is very 
desirable. 62 
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SPECIMEN FOR GLANDERS. 
A specimen for glanders in a live horse should 
be taken on a long swab reaching as high in the 
nostrils as possible and particularly from dis- 
charging ulcers. The swab is similar to those 
used for diphtheria only larger and longer and 
they must be placed in bottle or containers, sealed, 
labeled and forwarded by express with a clinical 
history of the case where it is possible. 
SPECIMEN FOR ACTINOMYCOCIS. 
The pus from the supperating abscess may be 
placed in a small bottle by the use of a swab and 
sent in a mailing case to the laboratory. 
An extracted tooth to which fragments of tissue 
diagnosing actinomycocis. 
SPECIMEN FOR HOG CHOLERA. 
Diagnosing a case of hog cholera before death, 
a sample of blood may be forwarded to the labor- 
atory for the agulentenating test. 
After death, a portion of the spleen, lung and 
liver should be sent. It is necessary to have these 
specimens packed in ice to prevent decomposition 
and they should be forwarded by express prepaid. 
SPECIMEN FOR RABIES. 
A dog suspected of being rabid should be kept 
chained and allowed to die. Every precaution 
must be taken to prevent anyone being bitten by 
the animal. 
In case the dog is running at large, it should 
be shot or killed in some manner without injur- 
ing the brain as it is used for diagnosis. 
In shipping a specimen to the laboratory, it 
should be packed in ice and sawdust and for- 
warded by express prepaid. 63 
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In sending all cases of suspected rabies, a let- 
ter should be sent to the laboratory with history 
descriptive of the actions of animal before death. 
It should also state whether the animal was a 
stray one or known in the community. 
SPECIMEN FOR TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS. 
Specimen for determination of tuberculosis in 
animals should be selected from diseased area 
found at the post mortem. 
The diseased lung or tubercles found anywhere 
in the body must especially be selected. 
SPECIMEN FOR TUBERCULOSIS IN FOWLS. 
If upon opening a fowl, nodules or yellow spots 
on the liver or nodules on the intestines are found, 
they should be placed in a wide-mouth bottle, 
carefully sealed and forwarded in a mailing case 
or the whole viscera may be sent by express if 
desired. 
SPECIMEN FOR DIPHTHERIA IN FOWLS. 
A fowl that has died of suspected diphtheria 
should have the head cut off and same should be 
sent to laboratory in mailing case. 
THE PASTEUR TREATMENT FOR RABIES. 
The Pasteur Treatment for rabies will be 
administered by the State Health Officer if the 
patient immediately reports after having been 
bitten by a dog or animal suspected of having 
rabies. 
This laboratory cannot be used for private 
work by physicians to collect a fee through its 
service. 
All specimens sent to the laboratory must be 64 
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prepaid. There are no fees for laboratory work 
to residents of the State. 
No attention will be paid to a specimen received 
at this laboratory if not accompanied by a letter 
from the sender explaining the analysis desired 
and data concerning the case. In the event of 
several specimens being sent from the same per- 
son, each specimen must be marked with analysis 
desired and the name and address of the sender. 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
RULE 35. 
It shall be the duty of all county stock inspect- 
ors, veterinary surgeons, stock raisers, or other 
persons having knowledge of tuberculosis, gland- 
ers, actinomycosis, anthrax, or any other disease 
of the lower animals liable to be communicated to 
man, to report the same in writing to the county 
health officer; and it shall be the duty of the 
county health officer, when such reports are 
received, to at once notify the secretary of the 
State Board of Health of the existence of such 
disease, naming the kind of animal, giving the 
name and address of the owner; and it shall be 
the duty of the stock inspector in each county 
where such diseased animal is reported, to at once 
make such disposition of this animal as may be 
directed by the secretary of the State Board of 
Health or the State Veterinarian. 
RULE 36. 
It shall be the duty of all county health officers, 
when requested to do so, to inspect any dairy or 
dairies supplying milk to a city or village; also 
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wagon or carrier. If, in his opinion, such dairy 
is kept in such a manner, or milk is transported 
in such a manner, or has such injurious substance 
placed therein as to be liable to injure those using 
the milk, it shall be his duty to report the same 
to the secretary of the State Board of Health, 
giving the name and address of the owners or 
dispensers of such dairy or milk, and that the 
same will become an official inquiry on the part 
of the secretary of the State Board of Health, or 
State Dairy and Food Commissioner, whose duty 
it shall be to make proper prosecutions in case 
of any violation of the laws of the State. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
RULE 37. 
It shall be the duty of every county health 
officer to take notice of any food products, either 
in form of animal or vegetable food, fresh or 
preserved in any way, if it is exposed in such way 
as to receive germs of diseases, or liable in any 
way to be the cause of disease to those consuming 
the same, and report the same to the Secretary 
of the State Board of Health, giving the name 
and address of such persons dealing with such 
diseased foods. 
RULE 38. 
It shall be the duty as provided by law and 
these rules and regulations, of all local boards of 
health, health officials, and health authorities, 
officers of the State institutions, police officers, 
sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and em- 
ployees of the State, or any county, city, or village 
thereof, to enforce the foregoing rules and regu- 
lations. 
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RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
RULES OF THE OREGON STATE BOARD OF HEALTH 
FOR SANITARY INSPECTION AND REGU- 
LATION OF SLAUGHTER-HOUSES 
AND MEAT MARKETS. 
The killing room should be supplied with a 
tight, well-drained floor, with sewer connections 
where possible. An approved cesspool with cov- 
ered sewers will be found advantageous where a 
sewerage system is not available. The walls 
should be tight to a height of six feet and covered 
with non-absorbent material and the remainder 
thoroughly white-washed or painted when neces- 
sary. The walls when constructed of boards 
should be cleated and rendered fly-tight. It shall 
be well lighted and ventilated and thoroughly 
cleansed daily. A box for blood must be provided 
and blood removed daily. 
All rooms used for retaining hides, glue-stock 
or by-products, shall be thoroughly drained and so 
situated that no offensive odors will penetrate 
to other apartments where meat or meat food pro- 
ducts are handled. 
All hanging floors, refrigerators and cooling 
rooms shall be well ventilated and kept in a thor- 
oughly sanitary condition. Hooks, offal, racks 
and rails shall be kept clean and sanitary in every 
respect. Loading platforms shall be kept clean 
and sanitary. 
All water used in washing carcasses shall be 
pure and free from contamination. Wells shall 
be covered and so protected that no animal con- 
tamination can gain access. 
Carcasses shall not be dressed with skewers, 
knives or other instruments that have been held 
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cleaned before being used again. Spitting on 
whetstones or steels when sharpening knives shall 
not be allowed. 
No carcass or part of a carcass shall be allowed 
to hang on the outside of markets in such a man- 
ner as to become contaminated by dust, dirt or 
flies. 
Hogs, when kept in the vicinity of slaughter 
houses, should not be allowed nearer than two 
hundred feet to the buildings used for killing pur- 
poses. Waste products should be cooked before 
being fed to hogs. 
All offal, refuse, horns, blood, waste or by-pro- 
ducts, shall be removed once daily, and all buckets, 
tubs or receptacles in which they are deposited 
shall be cleansed and disinfected from time to 
time. 
Animals presenting a diseased condition shall 
not be used for meat food purposes. INDEX 
A 
PAGE 
Adulterants, sale of prohibited 32-33 
Animals, domestic 64-65 
Animal carcass, pollution of streams with 38 
Appropriation for vaccine, and how applied 27 
Appropriation for prevention of spread of Asiatic diseases.... 28 
B 
Births, report of by physicians, etc 40-41 
Births, report of by county health officer 41 
Blanks furnished by Secretary of State 7 
Burial permits 41-45 
C 
Carriers to submit to quarantine regulations 24 
Candy, sale of adulterated prohibited 35 
Contagious diseases, report of by physicians 40 
Contagious diseases, report of by superintendent of state 
institutions 40 
Contagious diseases, report of by county health officer 41 
Contagious diseases, rules of .45-49 
Contagious diseases, rules of State Board of Health for the 
prevention and control ..51-53 
County and city boards of health 7-10 
County may quarantine against other county 24-25 
Creation of Board 3 
Creation of State Commission for Treatment of Tuberculosis 14-16 
Creation of Board of Directors for tuberculosis sanitarium....l7-18 
D 
Deaths, report of by physicians 40 
Deaths, report of by county heanh officer 41 
Disinfection required, penalty 31 
Domestic animals 64 
Duties of Board 3 
Duties of Board of Directors for tuberculosis sanitarium 18 
E 
Enforcement of these rules and regulations by health officials 65 70 
INDEX. 
F PAGE 
Food, sale of adulterated prohibited 31 
Food, sale of unwholesome unlawful 34 
Food, sale of diseased, reported by county health officer 65 
H 
Hospital-quarantine 23-24 
I 
Inoculating oneself or another with dangerous disease 39 
Inspection of conveyances entering state .25-26 
M 
Marriages, report of by county health officer 41 
Medicines, sale of unwholesome unlawful 34 
Meetings of Board 4 
N 
Nuisances, when to abate by State Board of Health 7 
P 
Penalty for violation of regulations of State Board of Health 26 
Penalty for selling unwholesome provisions 33 
Penalty for adultering drugs 33 
Penalty for sale of unwholesome food and medicines 34 
Penalty for sale of adulterated candy 35 
Penalty for polluting water for domestic use 37 
Physicians have equal privileges 19 
Preservatives, sale of prohibited 32-33 
Q 
Quarantine by Boards of Health 20 
Q uarantine of contagious diseases 21 
Quarantine, enforcement of 21-22 
Quarantine, expenses of 23 
Quarantine, rules of 49-50 
R 
Railroad employees, transportation of deceased persons 55 
Records of births, deaths, and marriages 13 
Regulations of local board altered by State Board 20 
Reports of births, deaths, and contagious diseases10-13 
Reports of marriages 13 
Requirement from Innocent purchasers of adultered products 34 
S 
Sanitarium, tuberculosis 16, 18 
School boards, duties and powers in case of contagious dis- 
eases and uncleanliness 30 INDEX. 
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Secretary 4-6 
Secretary of State Board of Health, powers of 27 
Slaughter-houses, unclean, penalty for permitting to remain 38 
Slaughter-houses, rules for sanitary inspection and regula- 
tion 66-67 
Specimens for laboratory, instructions for securing ano 
transmitting 57-64 
Standards for condensed or evaporated milk 31-32 
State Board of Health, power of on default of local board.... 2 5 
T 
Transportation of dead 41-45 
of deceased persons 55-56 
Tuberculosis sanitarium 16-17 
Tuberculosis, persons affected 25 
U 
Undertakers, rules governing 54-55 
V 
Vaccination 48 
Violation of act a misdemeanor 14 
w 
Warrants for removal of infected persons 22 
Water for domestic use, polluting with sewage 36 
Water for domestic use, polluting with animal carcass 36 
Water for domestic use, polluting of 3 7 
Water used for municipal supply of adjoining state, pollut- 
ing of 37-38