Restrictions governing paroled persons afflicted with Hansen's disease

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  • All paroled persons afflicted with Hansen's disease shall be subject to the following restrictions and regulations:
    • (1) Change of address must be reported immediately to the Commissioner of Health by such paroled persons afflicted with Hansen's disease.

    • (2) No person afflicted with Hansen's disease may leave the Virgin Islands without written permission of the Commissioner of Health.

    • (3) Persons afflicted with Hansen's disease are prohibited from being occupied in the sale of articles of food or the preparation of such for others, or the serving of such to others, or the manufacture of tobacco products. They shall not serve as physicians, midwives, nurses, nursemaids, pharmacists, barbers, washers, household or personal servants or assistants to the same.

    • (4) Paragraph (3) above shall not apply to persons in whom Hansen's disease has been arrested, that is, in whom the disease has been entirely quiescent for a period of not less than 5 years; such status to be proved by certificate from the Commissioner of Health.

    • (5) The Commissioner of Health or a qualified physician appointed by him shall examine all persons afflicted with Hansen's disease who remain at large. Such examinations shall be at intervals of not more than 3 months when lesions are active and progressive, and at intervals of 6 months when the disease is classed as quiescent, that is, when there has been no evidence of activity for at least one year; and at intervals of one year when the disease has been arrested. Such examinations shall include skin scrapings and nasal smears when advisable.


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