The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
a different meaning:
Infectious, contagious, or pestilential disease
includes all such sickness, affliction or disease, or phases thereof, of an infectious,
contagious or pestilential nature (more especially referring to cholera, yellow fever,
smallpox, diphtheria, ship or typhus, spotted, relapsing and scarlet fevers) and also
any new disease of any infectious, contagious or pestilential nature and any other
disease publicly declared by the department of health of the state dangerous to the
public health and of a contagious, infectious or pestilential nature or character.
