Every physician shall, within 12 hours after his first professional
attendance upon any person who is afflicted with any of the following diseases,
report such sickness by telephone or message and confirm the same, in writing,
to the person designated by this Board to receive such reports:
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Anthrax
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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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Glanders
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Influenza
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Leprosy
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Malaria
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Measles
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Measles, German (rubella)
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Meningitis, Meningococcus (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 interior
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Rabies (hydrophobia)
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Scarlet fever
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Smallpox (varioloid)
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Streptococcus sore throat
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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
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Undulant fever
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Whooping cough
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Yellow fever
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Infectious dyrres of newborn
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When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of every person 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 § 234-21, within 12 hours after discovering the same, to report the facts in writing to the person designated by this Board to receive such reports.
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by this Board to establish the
true character of any disease which it may believe to be communicable, a medical
examination of the person or persons affected by such disease may be ordered,
and such examination shall be permitted by all attendants and persons.
In case an infectious, contagious or communicable disease occurs in
this borough, the person affected thereby shall, at the discretion of this
Board of Health, be isolated or he may be removed to such locality as this
Board of Health may order and direct; and all buildings, clothing, property,
premises and vehicles which may become infected by the presence of persons
affected with contagious, infectious or communicable disease shall be disinfected,
and said disinfection shall be made and performed in such manner and with
such materials and within such stated time and under such supervision as this
Board of Health may direct. This Board of Health may establish such separation
and isolation or quarantine of the sick from other persons not necessary as
attendants and also recommend special care, disinfection and cleansing of
property and premises as shall, in the judgment of the Board of Health, be
needed in order to prevent the spreading of such diseases to other persons.
Whenever quarantine or isolation and separation of persons or property
on account of contagious, infectious or communicable disease is ordered by
this Board, notice of said order shall be given to the persons affected thereby.
Said notice shall be in writing and it may be served personally or left with
some person at the infected house or it may be posted upon the front of the
building or premises occupied by the infected persons or property. The requirements
of said notice shall be obeyed by all persons, and no such notice or any other
sign indicating the presence of communicable disease upon any premises shall
be removed except by consent of this Board.
No person or article liable to contribute to the spread of a communicable
disease shall be brought within or removed from the limits of the Borough
of Northvale without the written permit and under the direction of the Board
of Health thereof; and whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person
that such a person or article has been brought within such limits, he shall
give notice thereof immediately to said Board. No person shall, within the
Borough of Northvale, without a permit from the Board of Health therefor carry
or remove from one building to any other any person sick of any communicable
disease, nor shall any person by an exposure of any individual sick of any
communicable disease or of the body of such person, or by a negligent act
connected therewith or in respect to the care or custody thereof, or by a
needless exposure of himself or of others by his instigation or direction
cause or contribute to or promote the spread of communicable disease. No owner,
lessee or tenant of any dwelling, temporary or permanent, in which there shall
occur a case of communicable disease, shall permit any clothing or other property
that may have been exposed to infection to be removed from the dwelling until
permission therefor shall have been granted by this Board, nor shall any occupant
of such a dwelling change his residence elsewhere without the consent of said
Board during the prevalence of any public danger from said disease.
The period of quarantine during which persons suffering from those communicable
diseases hereinafter set forth shall be completely isolated from contact with
other members of the family and the general public shall be as follows:
A.
Chicken pox. Patient shall be isolated until 12 days
from the appearance of the eruption and all scabs have fallen and scars healed.
Immune contact: no quarantine. Nonimmune contact: shall be quarantined until
14 days after first symptoms of last case to which exposed.
B.
Diphtheria. Patient shall be isolated until two successive
negative cultures from both nose and throat are obtained, taken not less than
24 hours apart and examined in an accredited laboratory. Contact: all contacts
shall be quarantined until case has terminated or been removed from the household
and thereafter until negative cultures are obtained from nose and throat.
C.
German measles. Patient shall be isolated until seven
days after the appearance of the rash and as long as abnormal discharges from
nose, ears and throat continue or cough persists. Immune contact: no quarantine.
Nonimmune contact: shall be quarantined until 21 days after first symptoms
of last case to which they were exposed.
D.
Measles. Patient shall be isolated until 12 days after
appearance of rash and as long as abnormal discharges from nose, ears and
throat continue or cough persists. Immune contact: no quarantine. Nonimmune
contact: shall be quarantined until 14 days after first symptoms of last case
to which they were exposed.
E.
Meningococcus meningitis. Patient shall be isolated until
14 days after temperature returns to normal and as long thereafter as patient
continues to harbor the meningococcus. Immune contact: not demonstrable. Nonimmune
contact: shall be quarantined until 14 days after case is removed from household
or until seven days after the period of isolation of the last case to which
they were exposed has terminated.
F.
Mumps. Patient shall be isolated until 14 days after
the appearance of the first symptoms and as long as glands remain swollen.
Immune contact: no quarantine. Nonimmune contact: shall be quarantined until
21 days after first symptoms of last case to which exposed.
G.
Acute anterior poliomyelitis. Patient shall be isolated
until 21 days after the appearance of the first symptoms of the disease and
until the temperature has returned to normal. Contacts: all contacts shall
be quarantined until 14 days after the removal of the case from the household
or until seven days after termination of isolation period if case remains
on premises.
H.
Scarlet fever. Patient shall be isolated for a minimum
of 21 days after appearance of first symptoms and until attending physician
shall certify in writing that all abnormal discharges from nose, throat, ears
and glands have ceased. Contacts: all contacts shall be quarantined until
seven days after case has been removed from premises or until period of isolation
of last case in household has terminated.
I.
Smallpox. Patient shall be isolated until 14 days from
the date of the first symptoms and until all scabs have separated and all
lesions healed. Contacts: All contacts shall be quarantined for 12 days after
case has been removed from the household; provided that the contact has been
immediately vaccinated and such vaccination is successful, quarantine shall
be for 21 days from last exposure, and if case is not removed from household,
quarantine shall be until isolation of case has terminated.
J.
Streptococcic (septic) sore throat. Isolation of patient
and quarantine of contacts shall be the same as hereinbefore provided in cases
of diphtheria.
K.
Typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever. Patient shall be isolated
until seven days after the temperature has returned to normal and until at
least two successive specimens of both stool and urine taken at intervals
of not less than seven days have been found not to contain typhoid bacilli.
Contacts: no quarantine.
L.
Whooping cough. Patient shall be isolated until 21 days
after first symptoms and as long thereafter as characteristic cough shall
continue. Immune contacts: no quarantine. Nonimmune contacts: shall be quarantined
until termination of isolation period of last case in household.
M.
All other cases. Isolation of patient and quarantine
of all persons in contact therewith in all cases of communicable disease,
except those set forth above, shall be in accordance with the provisions of
the several regulations of Chapter VI of the Sanitary Code of the Department
of Health of the State of New Jersey applying thereto which are now in effect
or which may hereafter be promulgated.
For the purpose of this chapter, the maximum period 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
is hereby declared to be as follows:
A.
Chicken pox: 21 days after last contact.
B.
Diphtheria: 12 days after last contact.
C.
German measles: 14 days after last contact.
D.
Measles: 14 days after last contact.
E.
Meningococcus meningitis: 14 days after last contact.
F.
Mumps: 21 days after last contact.
G.
Acute anterior poliomyelitis: 14 days after last contact.
H.
Scarlet fever: seven days after last contact.
I.
Smallpox: 21 days after last contact.
J.
Streptococcic sore throat: 12 days after last contact.
K.
Whooping cough: 14 days after last contact.
