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Sec. 2 . Whenever any physician shall report to the Health Commissioner any case of 
small-pox or contagions disease in any dwelling or building in the City of St. Louis, the 
Health (Commissioner shall have the power, whenever in his opinion it is necessary, to cause 
to be placed on the outside of any building or dwelling, or door of any room, a printed plac- 
ard giving notice of the existence of such contagious disease. Any person who shall remove 
such placard placed by order of the Health Commissioner shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and upon conviction be lined not less than live nor more than twentj^-live dollars. 
Sec. 3. Any practicing physician who shall neglect or refuse to perform the duties 
required of him by this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
viction shall be lined not less than ten nor more than llfty dollars. 
Sec. 4. The parents or guardians of children attending any private or public school 
who shall permit them to attend school after it becomes known to the said parents or guar- 
dians that any of their family are infected with any infectious or contagious disease shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be lined in a sum of not 
less than three nor more than ten dollars. 
Sec. 5. Any principal or teacher of any private or public school in the City of St. Louis 
having official or authentic information of the existence of an}" infectious or contagious dis^ 
ease in the family of any pupil attending said school shall immediately cause the iHunovaf 
of said pupil from said school, and until he (or she) shall have undoubted proof of the prem- 
ises where the family reside beiyg disinfected, and the disease eradicated. Any failure on 
the part of any principal or teacher complying with the provisions of this section shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be lined in a sum not less than 
three nor more than ten dollars. 
Approved February 19, 1878. 
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