§ 2. TELEPHONE REPORTS

Acute Communicable Disease Control staff may be reached during working hours at 974-7944. After working hours, on weekends or holidays, appropriate staff can be reached through the County operator at 974-1234.

A.

The District Health Registrar immediately telephones reports of the following cases or suspected cases to the Morbidity Unit:

Anthrax

Botulism

Cholera

Dengue

Diphtheria

Food Poisoning

Meningitis, Meningococcal

Plague

Poliomyelitis

Rabies in humans/animals

Relapsing Fever (Louse-borne)

Smallpox

Typhoid Fever

Typhus Fever (Louse-borne)

Yellow Fever

Unusual Outbreak of Any Disease

B.

The Morbidity Unit immediately delivers the CONFIRMATION OF NOTIFICATION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE INFORMATION, H-24, on cases listed above to the Chief, Acute Communicable Disease Control. In botulism and food poisoning, the TELEPHONE REPORT OF FOOD POISONING EPISODE, H-26, is immediately delivered to the Chief, Food and Drug Section.

C.

The District Public Health Registrar immediately telephones reports of communicable disease, related to either dairy or to persons with or in contact with communicable diseases who are employed in sensitive occupations, to the Chief, Public Health Investigation. (See Sec. 13.)

D.

The Morbidity Unit immediately notifies the Chief, Occupational Health when a communicable disease arises out of and in the course of employment, when the place of employment is in the County of Los Angeles jurisdiction. This includes, but is not limited to: anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, coccidioidomycosis, food poisoning, leptospirosis, psittacosis, Q fever, tetanus, and tularemia.

E.

The Morbidity Unit telephones reports of deaths from quarantinable diseases to the Chiefs, Acute Communicable Disease Control and Public Health Investigation.

F.

The Chief, Acute Communicable Disease Control, telephones or telegraphs reports of the following diseases to the State Department of Health: botulism, cholera, dengue, plague, relapsing fever (louse-borne), smallpox, typhus fever (louse-borne), yellow fever.