A. 
For the purposes of this article, all regulations concerning communicable diseases as set forth in Chapter II of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code, entitled "Reportable Diseases," and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto are incorporated herein and made a part hereof as though set forth herein at length except as hereinafter modified.
B. 
Three copies of said Chapter II of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code, entitled "Reportable Diseases," have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary of the Board of Health upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public.
C. 
The interpretation of this article of this chapter shall be held to be the minimum requirements adopted for the protection of the public health, and whenever the requirements of Chapter II of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code are at variance with the requirements of this chapter, the more restrictive or that imposing the higher standard shall govern.
A. 
For the purpose of controlling the spread of illness and disease in the Borough, the following diseases, together with such others as may from time to time be added by the State Department of Health, are hereby declared as contagious, communicable or infectious and are especially dangerous to the public health. All diseases are reportable, but the capitalized diseases are not communicable.
Amebiasis
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis (undulant fever)
CEREBRAL PALSY
Chicken pox (varicella)
Cholera
Dengue
Diarrhea of newborn
Diphtheria
Dysentery, amoebic and bacillary
EPILEPSY
FOOD POISONING (staphylococcal, etc.)
Glanders
Hepatitis:
Infectious
Serum
Influenza
LEPROSY
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Measles (rubeola)
Measles, German (rubella)
Meningitis, meningococcal
MENTAL DEFICIENCY
Mononucleosis, infectious
Mumps
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague
Psittacosis
Q fever
Rabies (hydrophobia)
Relapsing fever, louse-borne
Ringworm of scalp
Rocky Mountain spotting fever
Salmonellosis (other than typhoid fever)
Scarlet fever
Shigellosis
Smallpox (varioloid)
Streptococcic sore throat
TETANUS
TRACHOMA
TRICHINOSIS
Tuberculosis, all forms
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever (Brill's disease)
Venereal diseases:
Chancroid
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Syphilis
Virus infections of the central nervous system:
Aseptic meningitis (specify)
Encephalitis (specify)
Poliomyelitis
Yellow fever
B. 
Any other communicable or contagious diseases which may be hereafter declared by the Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health may be added at any time.
C. 
Cases of venereal diseases are to be reported directly to the State Department of Health.
A. 
Every physician in professional attendance upon any person in the Borough suffering from a communicable disease (or, where no physician is in attendance, every parent, guardian, householder, superintendent or supervisor of clinics or institutions who knows that any person, living, dwelling or being in any house or building in the Borough under his or her control, has or is suspected of having a communicable disease) shall report, in writing to the reporting officer of the Board of Health, the name, age, sex, color and address of such person or suspect with the name of the disease diagnosed or suspected within 24 hours after such diagnosis is made.
B. 
Every attending physician shall, within 12 hours to 24 hours next after he shall have been informed of death of any person in the Borough who shall have died of a communicable disease, give written notice thereof to the reporting officer of the Board of Health, particularly setting forth in said notice the name, age, sex, color and address of such deceased person, the date of his or her death and the name of the disease causing death. This notice shall be given independently of the regular certificate of death required by law.
C. 
Communicable diseases occurring on dairy premises are reportable within 12 hours by telephone or telegram.
A. 
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Board or the reporting officer to establish the true character of any disease which is suspected to be communicable, a medical examination of the person or persons affected may be ordered by the Board, and no person shall interfere with or refuse to submit to such examination.
B. 
Whenever the Board, or the reporting officer, shall have reason to suspect that any person may be a carrier of germs of communicable disease, the Board may require that specimens be taken from such person for examination, and it shall be the duty of such person to furnish the specimens required.
A. 
Whenever a case of diphtheria, poliomyelitis or smallpox exists in any house or apartment or other premises in the Borough, it shall be the duty of the reporting officer or his representatives forthwith to establish such quarantine, isolation or other restrictive measures as may be by law or this chapter required, and he shall cause a written order, establishing such isolation or quarantine, to be served upon the person in charge of such premises.
B. 
Every such isolation or quarantine so ordered or established shall remain in force until the reporting officer or designate has cause to serve on the affected person or persons a notice, in writing, terminating such isolation or quarantine.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, while suffering from any communicable disease, or for any person in charge of anyone suffering from any communicable disease, to wilfully expose or allow to be exposed such persons so suffering in any street, shop, inn, public conveyance, school, church or other public place in the Borough, except as ordered or permitted by the reporting officer or designate.
All regulations concerning isolation of persons ill or infected with a communicable disease and restriction of contacts of such communicable disease as established by the State Department of Health of the State of New Jersey, and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto, are hereby adopted as part of this chapter.
The maximum periods of incubation (that is, the time which may elapse between the date of the last exposure to a given disease and the date of its development) of the following communicable diseases are hereby declared as follows:
A. 
Chicken pox (varicella), from 10 days to 21 days (usually 14 days).
B. 
Diphtheria (membranous croup), usually two days to six days.
C. 
German measles (rubella), from 12 days to 21 days (usually about 14 days).
D. 
Measles (rubeola), from seven days to 14 days (usually 10 days).
E. 
Meningitis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, meningococcus, generally one day to 10 days (usually seven days).
F. 
Mumps, from 12 days to 38 days (average 18 days).
G. 
Poliomyelitis, acute anterior, from five days to 14 days.
H. 
Scarlet fever (scarlatina), from two days to five days.
I. 
Smallpox (variola), from eight days to 12 days (usually 12 days).
J. 
Streptococcic sore throat (septic sore throat), from two days to five days.
K. 
Typhoid fever in food poisoning outbreaks, from six hours to 48 hours (usually 12 hours); in sporadic cases, probably one to seven days.
L. 
Paratyphoid fever A, B, C, from four days to 10 days (usually about seven days), and usually longer for A than for B and C.
M. 
Whooping cough, from five days to 21 days; almost uniformly within 10 days.
When any person has been exposed at home or elsewhere to a person affected with chicken pox, diphtheria, meningitis (epidemic cerebrospinal), measles, German measles, mumps, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, smallpox or whooping cough, such person may be prohibited by the local Board of Health, or the reporting officer thereof, from attending any public or private school or any public gathering, and if, in the judgment of said Board or officer, it is necessary in order to protect the public health, he may be prohibited by such exposed person from leaving the premises upon which such exposed person resides until a permit so to do has been secured from the Board or its reporting officer; providing, however, that such prohibition shall not exceed the maximum period of incubation as fixed in this chapter for the disease to which such person was exposed.
A. 
It shall be the duty of the reporting officer of the Board of Health of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, as soon as a case of communicable disease is reported, to ascertain the source of the infection and to give all necessary directions in writing or printed instructions to the person so affected and to any person in charge of such person regarding disinfection and disposal of excretions, other body discharges and other materials which may be or become infected.
B. 
When the reporting officer or other duly authorized representative of the Board has reason to believe that a person may be a carrier of a contagious or infectious disease, such officer or representative may require that materials for examination shall be taken from such person, and it shall be the duty of such person to furnish the necessary specimens for examination or to permit said officer or representative to collect such specimens.
C. 
Exclusion from schools and gatherings of cases and contacts of certain communicable diseases, either actual or suspected, shall and may be done in accordance with this chapter and all laws of the State of New Jersey now or hereafter pertaining thereto.
D. 
Removal of cases of diseases, the restrictions of visiting, the isolation and provisions for persons who cannot be removed and quarantined in emergencies, shall be accomplished in accordance with all laws of the State of New Jersey now or hereafter pertaining hereto.
E. 
Physicians having knowledge of any outbreak of a disease not listed or of unusual manifestations of disease shall report the facts to the reporting officer in whose jurisdiction the condition exists, who shall make an investigation and submit a report thereof to the State Department of Health.
F. 
After the death, removal or release from isolation of a case of communicable disease, adequate cleaning or disinfection or both of the room or rooms that have been occupied by the patient and of any articles which have become infected shall be carried out under the supervision of the reporting officer.
G. 
It shall be unlawful to transport any person having any contagious disease, or any disease having the symptoms of a contagious disease, in any bus, taxicab or other public conveyance, except in an ambulance or other vehicle, the use of which is permitted for that purpose.
H. 
Whatever quarantine has been established by the Board of Health in any house within this Borough in which any contagious, communicable or infectious disease exists, such quarantine and all provisions thereof shall be maintained and obeyed by all persons until recovery or death of the person or persons affected with any such disease has been reported to the Board of Health and until such disinfection has been approved by said Board of Health. After all the terms of this chapter have been complied with, the Board of Health will issue a certificate to school children in the said house, without which no pupil shall be allowed to return to school.
I. 
No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school and no parent or guardian of any person suffering from any of the diseases mentioned above shall knowingly permit any such person to attend any day, night or Sunday school. No person suffering from any such disease shall attend any place of amusement or public assembly while so suffering.
J. 
It shall be the duty of the principal or teacher of any private or public day school, night school or Sunday school within this Borough to report to the Board of Health the name and residence of any child suspected of any contagious, communicable or infectious disease mentioned above, who shall present himself or herself for attendance at such school.
K. 
It shall be the duty of every resident of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus having information of the existence of a communicable, infectious or contagious disease within said Borough, not known by such person to have been reported by the attending physician, to report the same to the Board of Health.
L. 
All milk bottles delivered at the home where a contagious disease existed shall be redelivered on said premises when the attending physician permits their return, and then only after they have been sterilized.
M. 
The reporting officer or the Clerk of the Board of Health shall, at least once a month, examine the death certificates and vital statistics of the municipality to ascertain if any death from reportable communicable diseases resulting in death have occurred from which no reports were received prior to the patient's death. Should such an instance be found, the attending physician in each case shall be called upon by such reporting officer or Clerk to explain his failure to make a report. If he is unable to make a satisfactory explanation, the reporting officer or Clerk shall refer the matter to the Board of Health for such action as the law provides.