Section 24-1-7 - Sexually transmitted diseases; reports of cases.

24-1-7. Sexually transmitted diseases; reports of cases.

A.     Every physician who makes a diagnosis of or treats or prescribes for a case of a sexually transmitted disease, every superintendent or manager of a clinic, dispensary or charitable or penal institution in which there is a case of a sexually transmitted disease and every laboratory performing a positive laboratory test for a sexually transmitted disease shall report the case immediately, in writing, on a form supplied by the department to the district health officer in the district in which they are located.   

B.     All district health officers shall make weekly reports to the department on forms supplied by the department of all cases of a sexually transmitted disease reported to them during the preceding week.