§ 720-020. CONFINEMENT IN HOME  


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  • If, by reason of the location of any house, tenement, or other place in which any case of small-pox, cholera, yellow fever, scarlet fever, or any other contagious or infectious disease exists, or for any other reason, the person affected with such disease is not removed to the proper hospital or pest-house, then it shall be and hereby is made the duty of the health officer or officers in charge of such case to require that the person so affected with such disease shall be kept closely confined in his house, room, or other place of abode for such length of time as may be deemed necessary by the health officers in charge of the case.

(Ord. 45, Sec. 2; Sept. 20, 1902)