Sec.19a-36-A15. Control of venereal disease

(a) When a licensed physician or hospital superintendent has reported a case of gonorrhea or syphilis and has agreed in writing to assume the responsibility for the proper instruction of the patient, the local director of health shall supply such physician or hospital superintendent with printed instructions for such patient.

(b) When such patient, while in an infectious state, neglects or refuses to follow the prescribed instructions or discontinues treatment, the physician or superintendent shall immediately notify the local director of health.

(c) In investigating cases or suspected cases of the above-mentioned diseases, the local director of health shall treat all information as confidential, but such course shall not preclude the making of reports to the state department of health.

(Effective October 25, 1989)