The local board of health shall cause an examination to be made of every person reasonably suspected, on the basis of epidemiological investigation, of having any venereal disease in the infectious stages to ascertain if such person is so infected, and if so infected, to cause such person to be treated. No person shall be subjected to such examination who is under the care and treatment of a physician for the suspected condition. If a person suspected of having venereal disease should refuse to submit to an examination voluntarily, application may be made by the local board of health to the district court for an order compelling such person to submit to examination and if infected, to treatment. Such person shall be treated until certified to the local board of health or, if none, to the Iowa department of public health as no longer infectious. In every case of treatment ordered by the district court the attending physician shall so certify that the person is no longer infectious.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2287, 2311; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 140.10, 140.34; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 140.8]
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