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.
B. 
Whenever a placard shall be placed upon a house as provided in § 89-51A of this article, no person or persons except the medical attendant, clergyman and nurses shall enter therein or depart therefrom without the permission of the Board of Health or its authorized agent.
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.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 10, Animals, Art. I, Quarantine.
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]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 16, Board of Health, § 16-4B, for fee payable to veterinarian.
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.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 10, Animals, Art. I, Quarantine.