It shall be the duty of every undertaker in
the Township of Saddle Brook and of all undertakers, whether or not
their place of business is within or without the Township of Saddle
Brook, having in charge the body of any person who shall have died
from smallpox (including varioloid), cholera, diphtheria, membranous
croup, measles, scarlet, typhus, yellow or ship fever, cerebrospinal
meningitis, leprosy or from any other communicable disease as shown
by the certificate of the physician, before placing the body in a
coffin or casket, to have the body wrapped in a sheet saturated with
an approved disinfecting solution, and the coffin or casket shall
be immediately and permanently sealed and no other person or persons
shall thereafter open the same. A public or church funeral shall not
be held of any person who has died of any such communicable disease,
but such funeral shall be private and it shall not be lawful to invite
or permit any person at the funeral of one who has died of such communicable
disease, except the immediate family in the house. No undertaker shall
use or cause or allow to be used at any such funeral or in any room
where the dead body of such person shall be any draperies, decorations,
rugs or carpets belonging to or furnished by him or under his direction.
No public coach, hack, cab or carriage nor any
upholstered vehicle used for the conveyance of passengers shall be
used for the conveyance of the body of any person who has died from
any communicable disease.
It shall be the duty of every undertaker having
notice of the death of any person within the Township of Saddle Brook
of smallpox (including varioloid), diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet,
typhus or yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, measles or any other communicable
disease dangerous to the general health of the community, or of the
bringing of the dead body of any person who has died of any such disease
into said Township of Saddle Brook, to give immediate notice thereof
to the Division of Health.
