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Owners or occupants of all residences, tenements or rooms within the
corporation of Leesburg, Va. or within one mile thereof, where small-
pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, scarlatina, measles or other highly
contagious or infectious diseases exist, shall either directly, or
through their physician, notify the board of health or mayor, of the
existence and character of such disease. The board of Health officer
shall place, or have placed on the house door, porch or fence, a
card with the name of the disease printed thereon. Tho necessary
card shall be prepared by the board of health, at the expense of the
corporation, and shall be furnished to the citizens without cost to
them, and shall be at least six inches square, and the letters in
which the name of the disease is printed shall be in large type so
as to be easily read at a distance of twenty feet.
All physicians having in charge any disease of the character
above mentioned shall at once report it to the board of health or
Mayor, in writing. On receipt of information of the existence of
such disease, the health officer shall notify the principal or one
membor of the school board of public school of the town, who shall
prevent a..y teacher, scholar or scholars, or employee residing in
such residence, tenement or room frog^ attending or visiting the
public school of the corporation without a written certificate from
the health officer that it is safe for such person to do so, and no
person shall sell, cause to be sold, or knowingly disposo of in such
manner as to cause such disease to spread, any clothing, bed cloth-
ing or any article or articles cr;iich hs_,ve been exposed to such
disease.
Any person violating the provisions of this section, or entire
ordinance, chnll be fined not less than X5.00, nor more than ,,x50.00,
for each offense. placard
Any Terson defacing, covering up or removing the
placed on any house by the board of health without proper authori-
zation, shall be fined not less than •,6.00.
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