§ 40.1-2-18. Examination of inmates for contagious disease — Investigation and report of sources.
The department is hereby authorized and directed, by the attending physician at any of the institutions or by such other physician as the director of the department may, from time to time, designate, to use every available means to ascertain the existence of any dangerous, infectious, or contagious disease, including syphilis in the infectious stages and gonococcus infection, among the inmates, prisoners, patients, and pupils of those institutions, and to make examination of any of them suspected of having syphilis in the infectious stages or gonococcus infection, and immediately to investigate the source of the infection, and if ascertained, to report the same to the department of health; and any person committed to or received into any of those institutions by, through, or under any order of court or any process of law shall be deemed to be an inmate, prisoner, patient, or pupil of the institution, as the case may be, within the provisions of §§ 40.1-2-16 — 40.1-2-21.
History of Section.P.L. 1917, ch. 1470, art. 4, § 2; P.L. 1918, ch. 1613, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 413, art. 4, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 54, § 2; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 40-2-18; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals
Chapter 40.1-2 - Administration of State Institutions
Section 40.1-2-1. - Definitions.
Section 40.1-2-2. - Rules and regulations.
Section 40.1-2-4. - Disclosure of information about patient’s estate.
Section 40.1-2-6. - Records and reports as to institution residents.
Section 40.1-2-7. - Application of funds deposited to care and treatment of residents.
Section 40.1-2-8. - Notice of balance to credit of deceased or discharged resident.
Section 40.1-2-9. - Payment of balance to general treasurer.
Section 40.1-2-10. - Establishment of right to balance paid to general treasurer.
Section 40.1-2-11. - Abandonment of property of deceased or discharged residents.
Section 40.1-2-12. - Transfer of abandoned property to the general treasurer.
Section 40.1-2-13. - Description of abandoned property transferred.
Section 40.1-2-14. - Sale of abandoned property — Remission of proceeds.
Section 40.1-2-15. - Application of proceeds of sale.
Section 40.1-2-16. - Protection of health of residents.
Section 40.1-2-17. - Resident physicians and dentists.
Section 40.1-2-20. - Records of venereal disease.
Section 40.1-2-21. - Powers as to health of residents.
Section 40.1-2-22. - Religious instructors and services.
Section 40.1-2-24. - Compensation of officers and employees.
Section 40.1-2-25. - Institutional farms.
Section 40.1-2-26. - Supervision of schools in institutions — Qualifications of teachers.
Section 40.1-2-27. - Departmental seal.
Section 40.1-2-28. - Annual report to general assembly.
Section 40.1-2-29. - Prohibition against duplication of keys.
Section 40.1-2-30. - Petitions for appointment of conservator or legal guardian.