3707.21 CONTAGIOUS DISEASE IN PUBLIC INSTITUTION;
TEMPORARY BUILDING
When cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or other
dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease appears in any state,
county, or municipal benevolent or correctional institution, the
superintendent or manager of the institution shall at once isolate the
persons so affected and enforce sections 3707.01 to 3707.53 of the
Revised Code, for the prevention of contagious diseases, and the rules
and orders of the department of health to that effect.
The trustees or managers of any benevolent or correctional
institution may erect any necessary temporary building for the reception
of the affected persons or for the detention of persons exposed to the
listed diseases and may remove the persons to, and confine them in, the
building.
