Contagious Diseases.

(1) 

Definition. Communicable diseases. Such diseases as are, in fact, communicable, and so determined by the State Board of Health, by rule, shall be within the term "communicable disease," as used in this section.

(2) 

Contact Cases in Schools. Upon the appearance of any dangerous communicable disease, the local Health Commissioner shall give written notice to the principal or teacher of each school, and the librarian of each library, of the names of all families where the disease exists. If the rules of the State Board of Health provide for the exclusion from school of persons who live in homes where such disease exists, the Health Commissioner shall request the principal of the school to exclude from school all such persons, until a written order signed by the Health Commissioner, permitting attendance, is presented. When the principal or teacher of a school has been notified of the prevalence of a dangerous communicable disease in the School District, or when the principal or teacher of the school knows or suspects that a dangerous communicable disease is present in the school, he shall, at once, notify the Health Commissioner who must then investigate the matter.

(3) 

Duty to Report Communicable Diseases. It shall be the duty of every physician called to attend a person sick with any of the diseases declared to be dangerous and communicable by the State Board of Health, within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter, to report, in writing or telephone, the name and residence of such persons to the Health Department of the City; and, where a physician is not called, it shall be the duty of the owner or agent of the building, in which such person resides, or of the head of the family or guardian in which such disease occurs to report, in writing or telephone, the name and residence of the patient to the Health Commissioner.

(4) 

Quarantine and Placarding. When the Health Commissioner shall suspect or be informed of the existence of any communicable disease, he shall at once investigate and make or cause such examinations to be made, as are necessary. The diagnosis (report) of a physician, or the notification or confirmatory consent of a parent or caretaker of the patient, or a reasonable belief in the existence of such disease shall be sufficient evidence; and, having any of these, the Health Commissioner shall immediately quarantine, placard, isolate or require restrictions in such manner and upon such persons and for such time as the State Board of Health provides in its rules. The Health Commissioner shall be responsible for the prompt placing and removal of signs, shall investigate evasion of the laws and rules upon communicable disease and shall so act as to protect the public.

(5) 

Interference with Placards. No person shall interfere with or obstruct the Health Commissioner or his duly authorized agent in the posting of any placard stating the existence of a case of any communicable disease in or on any place or premises, or the suspected existence of or contact with any such disease, nor shall any person conceal, mutilate, destroy or remove any such placard, except by the permission of the Health Commissioner. Whenever any duly posted placard has been concealed, mutilated, destroyed or removed, it shall be the duty of the occupant of the premises whereon such placard was posted to immediately notify the Health Commissioner thereof.

(6) 

Public Funerals Prohibited in Certain Cases. A public or church funeral shall not be held for any person who has died of the communicable diseases designated by the State Board of Health as continuing to be dangerous during the funeral.

(7) 

Parents Duty to Neglected and Affected School Children. Parents shall not permit children afflicted with a dangerous communicable disease to attend school. Neglect or refusal on the part of any principal or teacher to comply with the requirements of this section shall be sufficient cause for his dismissal.

(8) 

Enforcement of State Regulations. The statutes of the State of Wisconsin, particularly Chapter 143 thereof, and the regulations of the State Board of Health pertaining to communicable diseases, shall be enforced in the City by the Health Commissioner.