Township of Saddle Brook, NJ Article XIX Contagious Disease

§ 157-89 Exclusion from schools during contagion.

No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school and no parent or guardian of any child attending any school shall permit any child sick with any communicable disease or any child residing in any house in which such disease shall exist to attend any school until such time as the attending physician certifies that it can be done without danger of communicating the disease to others, which time, however, may not be less in the several cases than the period hereinafter named:

A. Diphtheria: after two negative cultures have been made.

B. Scarlet fever: until desquamation is complete, six weeks or more.

C. Variola and varioloid: four weeks.

D. Pertussis (whooping cough): six weeks.

E. Rubella (German measles): two weeks.

F. Rubeola (measles): two weeks.

G. Varicella (chicken pox): two weeks.

H. Parotitis (mumps): two weeks.

§ 157-90 Closing of certain public places.

It shall, under the direction of the Division of Health, be the duty of the keeper of any hotel, tavern, boarding or public house, or the owner or occupant of any private residence or tenement house, where any person may be sick with any contagious or communicable disease, to close any such house or place and keep it closed as against all lodgers, customers and persons desiring to visit same until such time as in the opinion of the Division of Health or the Health Officer all danger of communicating the said disease from any such house or place or from the inmates thereof shall have passed; and no person or persons brought in direct contact with those so affected shall go about the Township or in any common or public or private place so as to endanger the health of other persons; provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to either the physician, clergyman or nurse in attendance on such sick person or persons.

§ 157-91 Communicable disease regulations.

[Added 3-4-1954]

The following regulations for the administrative control of communicable diseases are hereby established:

A. The periods of incubation and isolation and quarantine of contacts in the household of patients in the case of the several diseases as hereinafter set forth are hereby fixed as follows:

Disease	Period of Incubation	Isolation for Patient	Quarantine for Contacts
Chicken pox (varicella)	From 10 to 21 days; usually 14 days	Until 7 days after appearance of rash	No restrictions
German measles (rubella)	From 12 to 21 days; usually about 10 days	None	No restrictions
Measles (rubeola)	From 8 to 14 days; usually about 10 days	As soon as fever and catarrhal symptoms of the eyes, nose and throat are detected and until 7 days after appearance of rash	Household contacts under 18 years who have not had measles shall be quarantined for 14 days after exposure
Mumps	From 12 to 21 days; usually about 18 days	Until 7 days after onset and until all swelling of the salivary glands has subsided	No restrictions
Pertussis (whooping cough)	From 7 to 14 days	3 weeks or until characteristic cough disappears	Household contacts under 18 years who have not had pertussis shall be quarantined for 14 days
Diphtheria (membranous croup)	Usually 2 to 5 days ,occasionally longer	Until 2 successive cultures from the nose and 2 from the throat taken not less than 24 hours apart beginning at least 7 days after cessation of drug therapy, if used, are found to be free from virulent diphtheria bacilli by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health for such examination	24 hours after satisfactory isolation of patient has been established, contacts may when 1 culture from the nose and another from the throat are found to be free from virulent diphtheria bacilli by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health for such examination, If satisfactory isolation of patient has not been established, members of household shall be quarantined until the period of isolation of the last case in the household has been terminated and the release culture standards described above have been met
Meningitis, epidemic cerebrospinal (meningococcal meningitis)	Generally 2 to 10 days; usually 7 days	Until 7 days after onset or for the duration of fever, if longer	Household contacts under 18 years shall be quarantined for 7 days
Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis)	Considered to be from 5 to about 14 days	For 7 days after onset or for the duration of fever, if longer	Intimate home contacts under the age of 18 years shall be quarantined for 14 days
Scarlet fever (including streptococcal sore throat)	From 2 to 7 days; usually 3 to 5 days	In uncomplicated cases, until clinical recovery or not less than 7 days. Patients with complications resulting in purulent discharges shall be isolated as long as discharges persist	Home contacts under the age of 18 years shall be quarantined for 7 days
Smallpox	From 10 to 20 days; usually 12 to 14 days	Until 14 days after onset of illness and until all lesions are healed	Home contacts and other persons exposed to the risk of contracting smallpox by proximity to a case or suspected case of the disease shall be vaccinated and quarantined until vaccination is successful or until evidence of protection is established to the satisfaction of the local Health Officer. Persons released from quarantine shall be kept under observation for not less than 21 days from the date of last exposure. Contacts who refuse to be vaccinated shall be quarantined for at least 16 days from the date of last exposure and until discharged by the local Health Officer
Typhoid fever paratyphoid fever A and B	Typhoid - from 3 to 38 days; usually 10 to 14 days Paratyphoid - from 4 to 10 days; usually about 7 days	Until clinical recovery and until 3 successive, authentic, fresh specimens of feces and urine taken at intervals of not less than 7 days, beginning at least 7 days after termination of specific drug therapy, have been reported negative for Salmonella typhosa by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health for such examination. Recovered cases shall submit, commencing 90 days after discharge from isolation, at least, authentic, fresh stool specimens in this period are positive for Salmonella typhosa, the individual shall come under the regulations governing carriers	Family contacts need not be quarantined unless employed as food handlers. Family contacts who are food handlers shall not be employed as such during period of contact and until 2 cultures of authentic, fresh specimens of feces and urine collected not less than 24 hours apart have been reported negative for Salmonella typhosa by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health for such examination

B. Persons ill or infected with a communicable disease which may be transmitted through food are prohibited from working in any establishment where food intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored or otherwise handled.

C. Persons who reside, board, lodge or visit in a household where they may come in contact with any person ill or infected with a communicable disease which may be transmitted through food are prohibited from working in any establishment where food intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored or otherwise handled unless permission is granted by the Health Officer or the State Department of Health.

D. Persons employed in any establishment where food intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored or otherwise handled may be required to submit to a physical examination for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not they are ill or infected with a communicable disease whenever in the judgment of a Health Officer or the State Department of Health such examination may be necessary.

E. The following diseases, excepting those which are capitalized, are declared to be communicable for the purposes of this chapter. All diseases listed herein are to be reported to the reporting officer:

Amebiasis

Anthrax

BOTULISM

Brucellosis

CEREBRAL PALSY

Chicken pox

Cholera

Dengue

Diarrhea of newborn

Diphtheria

EPILEPSY

FOOD POISONINGS

Glanders

Infectious encephalitis

Infectious hepatitis, including serum hepatitis

Influenza

LEPROSY

Leptospirosis

Malaria

Measles (rubeola)

Meningococcal meningitis

MENTAL DEFICIENCY

Mumps

Ophthalmia neonatorum

Pertussis (whooping cough)

Plague

Pneumonia, all forms

Poliomyelitis

Psittacosis

Q fever

Rabies

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Salmonellosis (other than typhoid fever)

Shigellosis

Smallpox

Streptococcal sore throat, including scarlet fever

TETANUS

TRACHOMA

TRICHINOSIS

Tuberculosis, all forms

Tularemia

Typhoid fever

Typhus fever

Venereal diseases

  Chancroid

  Gonorrhea

  Granuloma inguinale

  Lymphogranuloma venereum

  Syphilis

Yellow fever

§ 157-92 Enforcement of regulations; modification.

[Added 3-4-1954]

It shall be the duty of the Health Officer or other authorized agent of the Division of Health to enforce the aforesaid regulations, and such Health Officer or authorized agent is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to modify or take such other steps as may be necessary within the limitations established by the aforesaid regulations whenever, in his opinion, such action is necessary for the promotion and protection of the public health.