Section 2101. Communicable diseases; physicians and institutions; duty to report

1. Every physician shall immediately give notice of every  case
  of communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it,
  to  the  health  officer of the local health district where such disease
  occurs.
    2. If there be no physician in attendance on any case of  communicable
  disease,  it shall be the duty of the superintendent or other officer of
  an institution, householder, hotel  or  lodging  housekeeper,  or  other
  person  where  such  case  occurs,  to  give  the notice of such case of
  communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it, to
  the health officer of the  local  health  district  where  such  disease
  occurs.
    3.   The  sanitary  code  may  provide  that  when  cases  of  certain
  communicable diseases occur (a) in districts of less than fifty thousand
  population not having a  full-time  health  officer,  or  (b)  in  state
  institutions  or  (c) in tuberculosis hospitals or sanitoria, such cases
  shall be reported directly to the  department  or  its  district  health
  officer.
    4.  Such  notice shall contain such information concerning the case as
  shall be required by the sanitary code.