§ 15-25. Diseased persons, notification.  


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  • It shall be unlawful for any person afflicted with any communicable disease to be or remain in this city, or for any physician to treat any such afflicted person, or for any person to keep, nurse or care for any such afflicted person, unless notice of the presence of such contagious disease be given to the director of public health as required in this article and also unless such afflicted person be kept, cared for and treated under the conditions prescribed in this article. The presence and treatment otherwise than as aforesaid of any person afflicted with a contagious disease is hereby prohibited and declared to be a public nuisance and a menace to the health of the city, which it shall be unlawful for any person to permit, maintain or continue in any apartment or on any premises in this city owned, or occupied or controlled by him.

(Code 1950, § 14-1; Code 1959, § 18-8)