Communicable diseases for the purpose of this chapter shall
be taken to include any disease transmissible to man which is now
or may hereafter be declared as such by ordinance, statute or the
action of the New Jersey State Department of Health to be communicable,
and they shall include and embrace anthrax, cholera, chicken pox,
diphtheria (membranous croup), influenza, leprosy, malaria, measles,
german measles, pneumonia (all forms), poliomyelitis, plague, scarlet
fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, tuberculosis (all forms), trachoma,
typhus fever, whooping cough, glanders, hydrophobia, trichinosis,
yellow fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and all such cases
shall be reported to the Division of Health as is hereinafter provided.
Every physician shall, over his signature, notify the Division
of Health in writing, giving the name of the disease, the name, address,
age, color and sex of the patient, also the date of onset of the disease,
within twelve (12) hours after his first professional attendance upon
any person suffering with a communicable disease.
Any physician who shall be called to attend a patient whom he
may suspect to be suffering from any of the above-mentioned diseases,
except tuberculosis, but of which he may be in doubt, shall report
the same to the Division of Health as a suspected case of communicable
disease within twelve (12) hours from the time of his first professional
visit, giving the information pertaining to the patient as required
in the preceding section, and in case of suspected typhoid fever,
the report may be delayed for five (5) days.
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Division of Health
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 said Division. Any person
or persons interfering with or refusing to permit such examination
shall be guilty of violating this Article.
No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school shall
knowingly permit any child sick with any communicable disease, or
any child residing in any house in which scarlet fever, diphtheria,
smallpox, measles or epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis shall exist,
to attend any school until such time as the Division of Health certifies
to such teacher, principal or superintendent that the said child may
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 any
circulating library. The Division of Health will inform the librarian
of all 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 a dwelling where such cases exist.
Any person in the City of Perth Amboy having a communicable
disease shall be isolated as the Division of Health may direct, and
all buildings, clothing, property, premises and vehicles which may
be infected by emanations from such person shall be disinfected as
the Division of Health may direct.
Every person residing in or working in the City of Perth Amboy
who is found to be affected with a venereal disease shall immediately
take proper treatment for the cure of such disease or be isolated.
No person shall knowingly bring or cause to be brought into
the City of Perth Amboy any person infected with any communicable
disease, except upon a permit granted by the Division of Health; and
no person shall knowingly bring or cause to be brought into said city
anything apt to propagate a communicable disease.
Every veterinarian or other person who is called to examine
or professionally attend any animal within the City of Perth Amboy
having the glanders or farcy, rabies, tuberculosis or any other communicable
disease shall, within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter, report in
writing to the Division of Health the following facts:
Every animal which is mad or which has hydrophobia or which
shows symptoms thereof shall be at once killed or else securely confined
until the diagnosis is accurately made. Every animal that has been
exposed to such disease shall be at once confined in some secure place
for such length of time as to show that such exposure has not given
such animal said disease, and the body of any animal that has died
of such disease or which, being suspected to have such disease, has
been killed, shall be disposed of as may be directed by the Division
of Health.
