[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health
of the Borough of Totowa 7-21-1959 (Ch. 153 of the 1974 Code).[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Burials and interments — See Ch. 433.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance contains provisions
which are substantially similar to those contained in Chapter II,
Reportable Diseases, of the State Sanitary Code.
A.
A "communicable disease" is hereby defined as a disease
in which the causative agent may be transmitted from person to person
or from animal to person by direct or indirect means.
B.
The following diseases are hereby specifically declared
to be communicable:
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Anthrax
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*Chancroid
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Chicken pox
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Cholera, Asiatic
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Diphtheria (membranous croup)
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Dysentery, amoebic and bacillary
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Encephalitis, lethargic
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Encephalomylitis (equine)
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Filariasis
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Glanders
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*Gonorrhea
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*Granuloma inguinale
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Influenza
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Leprosy
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*Lymphogranuloma venereum
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Malaria
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Measles (rubeola)
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Measles, German (rubella)
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Meningitis, epidemic cerebrospinal
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Mumps
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Ophthalmia neonatorum
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Paratyphoid fever
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Plague
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Pneumonia (broncho, lobar)
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Poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis)
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Psittacosis
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Rabies (hydrophobia) in animals and man
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Scarlet fever
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Smallpox (varioloid)
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Streptococcic sore throat
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*Syphilis
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Tetanus
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Trachoma
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Trichinosis
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Tuberculosis, all forms
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Tularemia
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Typhoid fever
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Typhus fever (Brill's disease)
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Udulant fever (brucellosis)
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Vincent's angina (Stomatitis) (trench mouth)
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Whooping cough
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Yellow fever
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NOTE:
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Shall be reported directly to the State Department
of Health and Senior Services and to the local Board of Health.
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All reports of cases or suspected cases of communicable
disease shall be made in writing to the Health Officer, signed by
the physician or other person making the same and shall set forth
the nature of the disease or supposed disease, the name, age, sex,
color and precise location of the person infected.
A.
Every physician who shall attend any person who is infected with any of the diseases enumerated in § 438-1B shall report such sickness within 12 hours after his first professional attendance.
B.
When no physician is attending any person who appears
to be infected with any communicable disease, then it shall be the
duty of any person who is in attendance or who had knowledge thereof
to report at once the existence of such suspected disease.
C.
Every superintendent or other person having control or supervision over any hospital, sanatorium or other public or private institution situated within the Borough of Totowa in which any person suffering from any of the communicable diseases enumerated in § 438-1B is received for care or treatment shall, within 24 hours after any such case has been received into said institution, report such sickness.
D.
It shall be the duty of any teacher, nurse or medical
school inspector to report forthwith to the principal or other person
in charge of a school the name of any child in such school who appears
to be infected with a disease declared by this chapter to be communicable.
It shall be the duty of the principal or person in charge of any school
to report forthwith in writing or by telephone, or in person if practicable,
to the Health Officer.
E.
It shall be the duty of the principal or other person
in immediate charge of any public, private or Sunday school to exclude
therefrom any child or other person infected with a disease suspected
to be communicable, until such child or other person shall have presented
a certificate issued by the Health Officer.
Whenever a report of a communicable disease
is received, the person infected shall, at the discretion of this
Board, be isolated or quarantined as this Board may order or direct.
A.
In establishing isolation or quarantine, the local
Board or Health Officer shall define the place and the limits of the
area within which the infected person is to be isolated. No person
except the attending physician or nurse shall enter or leave the areas
of isolation without the permission of the Health Officer. Isolation
or quarantine shall be continued until it is determined by examination
that the person no longer has the disease in an infectious stage.
B.
After isolation or quarantine of any person infected
with or exposed to a communicable disease shall have been established,
such person shall not leave the apartment or premises where he is
isolated or quarantined, nor shall any other person remove such person,
nor permit him to be removed, unless a permit for such removal shall
have been issued first by the Health Officer.
When the diagnosis of any communicable disease
is established, this Board shall have the right to post in plain view,
at the entrance of the house or upon the doors of the apartment in
which the case is isolated, a placard stating the existence therein
of a communicable disease and the name of such disease.
A.
No person shall interfere with nor obstruct the posting
of any placard by any representative of this Board in or on any place
or premises, nor shall any person conceal or mutilate any such placard
or remove it except by permission of the Health Officer.
B.
It shall be the duty of the occupant of the premises
where a placard has been posted to notify immediately the Health Officer
of any interference with or removal of such placard.
The physician, nurse or other necessary attendant
upon a case of communicable disease, after attending upon the case,
shall take such precautions and practice such measures of cleansing
or disinfection of his person and garments as will prevent the conveyance
to others of infective material from the patient.
A.
No person shall expose or permit the exposure of anyone
to any communicable disease or its causative agent.
B.
No person suffering from a communicable disease or
harboring the causative organism of any communicable disease and no
articles which may tend to propagate or spread such disease shall
be brought into this Borough without the permission from the Health
Officer. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person that
such persons or articles have been brought into this Borough without
the permission of the Health Officer, he shall immediately give notice
thereof to the Health Officer. No person shall remove any such diseased
person or infected article from any house or place without a permit
from the Health Officer.
No person infected with chicken pox, diptheria,
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, German measles, measles, mumps,
acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever,
streptococcic sore throat, whooping cough, smallpox, Vincent's angina
or gonorrhea and syphilis in an infectious stage shall attend or be
permitted to attend any public, private or Sunday school, or any public
or private gathering; nor shall such person visit or make use of any
public library or any of the books belonging thereto; nor shall the
personal clothing or bedclothing of any person infected with such
disease be sent to a public laundry unless it shall first have been
disinfected in such manner as prescribed by this Board.
This Board may, if it shall be deemed necessary,
require a person believed to be a carrier of disease germs to furnish
specimens for examination. It shall be the duty of such person to
furnish the necessary specimens for examination or to permit the Health
Officer or his representative to collect such specimens.
Whenever this Board shall deem it necessary
to establish the true character of any disease which in its opinion
may be communicable, a medical examination of the person infected
may be required and such specimens of secretions or other material
for examination shall be taken from such person, and it shall be the
duty of such person to submit to such examination and furnish such
necessary specimens. No person shall interfere with or prevent the
securing of such specimens. The Board may cause any person suspected
to be infected with a communicable disease to be isolated or quarantined
until medical or laboratory examinations show that the person is free
of the causative organisms of disease.
A.
Adequate cleansing or disinfection, or both, of rooms,
furniture and belongings, when deemed necessary by this Board or required
by this chapter, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal
of a person infected with a communicable disease. Such cleansing shall
be performed by and at the expense of the occupant or owner of said
premises, upon the order and under the direction of this Board, in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
B.
When an order requiring the cleansing or disinfection
of articles or premises is not complied with, this Board shall cause
to be posted a placard on the premises forbidding the occupancy of
such rooms or premises until such order shall have been complied with.
No person shall remove, mutilate, conceal or destroy any such placard
except by the direction of this Board.
C.
Furniture, bedding, clothing, carpets, rugs or other
articles which may have been contaminated with infective material,
and in such condition that they cannot, in the opinion of the Health
Officer, be properly cleansed or disinfected, shall upon his order
be destroyed in the manner designated by him.
Every physician attending any person whose illness
is caused or suspected of being caused by food poisoning (bacterial
or chemical) shall, within 12 hours after his first attendance, make
a written report to this Board stating the name, age, sex, color and
address of such person.
Every veterinarian who shall attend any animal
within this Borough, having or suspected of having rabies, glanders
or farcy, anthrax or any other communicable disease transmittable
to humans, shall within 12 hours thereafter report in writing to this
Board the location of such diseased animal, the type and character
of the disease and the name and address of the owner.
It shall be the duty of any person having knowledge
of any dog, cat or other animal infected with rabies or suspected
of being infected with rabies within this Borough to forthwith notify
this Board and, if possible, give the description of the animal, the
location where it may be found and the name and address of the owner
or person having custody thereof.
Whenever a dog, cat or other animal shall have
bitten any person, the owner or person in charge thereof shall securely
confine such animal for the purpose of observation in such a manner
and for such a period as may be designated by the Health Officer.
Whenever death has been caused by any communicable
disease, the transportation, care, disposal and burial of the body
shall be in accordance with the regulation regarding the same as required
by the State Sanitary Code and in accordance with such further regulation
as this Board may direct.[1]
[Amended 12-18-1974]
Any person, firm or corporation hindering or obstructing a member or employee or agent of the Board of Health or anyone duly authorized by the Board in the performance of his duties in entering any premises for inspection or the carrying out of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the penalty provisions contained in Chapter 420, General Provisions, Board of Health, Article I.
