§ 5.16.050. Reporting
Whenever any person residing in a hotel, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house is afflicted with any contagious disease, the owner, lessee, keeper or manager of such place must immediately give notice thereof to the board of health. Immediately upon the receipt of such notice the board of health must cause an examination of the person so afflicted and if, in its judgment, it be necessary, it shall cause such place or any part thereof to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in an effective manner, and the board of health may cause the wall paper thereon to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in an effective manner and the board of health may cause the wall paper to be removed or placed, and the walls thereof to be whitewashed, and it may cause the bedding and bed-clothes used by the person so afflicted to be thoroughly cleansed, scoured and fumigated, or, if necessary, to be destroyed.