Every physician practicing in the Borough of
Rutherford shall report, in writing, to the Board of Health the name
of every patient he or she shall find affected with anthrax, chickenpox,
cholera (Asiatic,), diphtheria (membranous croup), dysentery, (amoebic
and bacillary), encephalitis (lethargic), glanders, influenza, leprosy,
malaria, measles, German measles, meningitis (epidemic cerebrospinal),
mumps, ophthalmia meonatorum, paratyphoid fever, pneumonia (broncho
or lobar), plague, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis),
rabies (hydrophobia), Rocky Mountain spotted fever, scarlet fever,
smallpox (varioloid), streptococcic sore throat, tetanus, trachoma,
trichinosis, tuberculosis (all forms), tularemia, typhoid fever, typhus
fever (Brill's disease), undulant fever, whooping cough, yellow fever
or any other communicable disease that may hereafter be declared by
this Board to be dangerous to public health, together with the precise
locality where such patient may be found, immediately after such physician
shall ascertain the nature of such disease.
Every homeowner or householder who has reason to believe that any person living, dwelling or being in any building or apartment under his control is affected with any of the communicable diseases enumerated in § 89-43 of this article shall, when no physician has attended such sick person, within 12 hours after discovering the same report the facts, in writing, to the Health Officer of the Board of Health.
The minimum period of isolation of persons affected
with the diseases hereinafter named shall be as follows:
A.
Chickenpox: until 12 days after the appearance of
the eruption and until the crusts have fallen and the scars completely
healed.
B.
Diphtheria (membranous croup): until two successive
negative cultures have been obtained from both the nose and throat
at intervals of not less than 24 hours or until the bacilli present
have been shown to be nonvirulent.
C.
Measles: until seven days after the appearance of
the rash and until all abnormal discharges from the nose, ears and
throat have disappeared and until the cough has ceased.
D.
Mumps: until two weeks after the onset of the disease
and all swelling of glands has disappeared.
E.
Acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis):
until three weeks after the onset of the disease and until the temperature
has returned to normal.
F.
Scarlet fever: until 21 days after the onset of the
disease and until all abnormal discharges from the nose, ears, throat
or suppurating glands have ceased.
G.
Smallpox: until 14 days after the onset of the disease
and until scabs have all separated and the scars completely healed.
H.
Whooping cough: until at least three weeks after the
onset of the disease, and until paroxysmal coughing has ceased.
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by this
Board, or its authorized agents, to establish the true character of
any disease which is suspected to be communicable, a medical examination
of the person or persons affected by such disease may be ordered by
the said Board or its agents. Any person or persons interfering with
or refusing to permit such examination shall be guilty of violating
this chapter.
No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school shall knowingly permit any child sick with any disease mentioned in § 89-43 of this article, or any child residing in any house in which such disease, except typhoid fever, shall exist, to attend any school until such time as the Board of Health certifies to such teacher that said child can attend school without danger of communicating the disease to others.
No person from any dwelling wherein a disease
dangerous to the public health exists shall take any book or magazine
to or from the public library without a permit from the Board of Health.
The Board will inform the librarian of all reported cases of said
diseases and, until a written permit is given, he shall allow neither
books nor magazines to be taken to or returned from the dwelling where
such cases exist.
In case communicable disease occurs in the Borough
of Rutherford, any person affected therewith shall be isolated, quarantined
or placed under other restrictive measures as may be required. Whenever
isolation or quarantine is to be established on any premises, the
Health Officer shall cause a written order establishing such isolation
or quarantine to be served upon the person in charge of such premises.
Service upon any responsible member of a household shall be deemed
sufficient service upon all the members of the household of the person
served. In lieu of such service, such order may be posted on the building
or premises occupied by the affected person or persons. When so posted,
all persons on such premises shall be bound by such notice. When such
isolation or quarantine has been established, it shall remain in force
until the Health Officer has caused to be served on the affected person
or persons or posted on the premises, a notice in writing terminating
such isolation or quarantine.
No person shall knowingly bring or cause to
be brought into the Borough of Rutherford any person infected with
any communicable disease, except upon a permit granted by the Board
of Health; and no person shall knowingly bring or cause to be brought
into said Borough any article liable to propagate a communicable disease.
A.
Whenever there shall occur in the Borough of Rutherford
any case of diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, measles,
acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever,
smallpox or typhus fever, the Board of Health or its authorized agent
shall place upon the house or houses in which said case or cases are
confined a placard naming the disease, and it shall be unlawful for
any person or persons to remove said placard without authority of
said Board.
In case a coach, hack, cab, carriage or other
vehicle used for the conveyance of passengers shall convey a patient
suffering from a communicable disease, said coach, hack, cab, carriage
or other vehicle shall be disinfected under the direction of the Board
of Health or its authorized agent before being used again.
A.
No parent or guardian of any infant under 10 years
of age suffering from the disease commonly known as "whooping cough"
shall permit any such infant to appear in the street or in any other
public place within the Borough of Rutherford unless such infant shall
wear and expose upon the arm a band of yellow material bearing upon
it the words, "Board of Health, Rutherford, Whooping Cough." The band
shall be in a form to be prescribed and supplied by the Board of Health
and shall be worn for a period beginning with the earliest recognition
of the disease and continue until danger of infection is over, but
in no event less than six weeks.
B.
No parent or guardian of any infant under the age
of 10 years suffering from whooping cough shall permit any such infant
to board any streetcar or other public conveyance or to visit any
house, other than the house in which such infant resides, or any store,
school, Sunday school or building of public assembly.
It shall be the duty of all persons owning or
having interest in or having in their possession or under their control,
or having knowledge of, any dog or cat or other animal affected with
rabies or suspected of being affected with rabies to forthwith notify
the Health Officer of the Board of Health by telephone, telegraph
or in person, if practicable, and also in writing, signed by the person
making the same, which report shall state where such animal may be
found and shall contain, if possible, a description of the animal,
the location of the animal and the name and address of the owner.
Every veterinary surgeon who is called to examine
or professionally attend any animal within the Borough of Rutherford
having the glanders or farcy or any contagious disease shall, within
24 hours thereafter, report in writing to the Board of Health of said
Borough of Rutherford the following facts: first, a statement of the
location of such diseased animal; second, the name and address of
the owner thereof; third, the type and character of the disease.[1]
The occurrence of any person or animal being
bitten by a dog, cat or other animal shall be immediately reported
to the Board of Health, and such animal causing the bite and the animals
having been bitten shall be confined for a period of not less than
10 days for the purpose of being examined for symptoms of rabies.
The head of any dead animal, which immediately preceding its death
was suspected of having rabies or exhibited symptoms of having rabies,
shall be submitted to the Board of Health for a laboratory examination
for rabies.
