Every physician shall, within 12 hours after his first professional
attendance upon any person in the Borough of Hopatcong who is affected with
any of the communicable diseases listed in Chapter VI of the Sanitary Code
enacted by the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey, communicate
notice thereof to the reporting officer of the Board of Health.
Every child and school teacher in, or who has visited, any household
at the time when there has been therein a case of diphtheria epidemic, cerebrospinal
meningitis, acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox,
shall be excluded from every public, private or Sunday school and from every
public and private gathering for such time and under such conditions as may
be prescribed to by this Board of Health.
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the Board of Health upon
receiving a report from any physician of a communicable disease to forthwith
establish such isolation or quarantine or other restrictive measures as may
be necessary to protect the public health or as may be required by this chapter
or by the State Sanitary Code. Whenever isolation or quarantine is to be established
on any premises, the Health Officer of the Board of Health shall cause a written
order establishing such isolation or quarantine to be served upon the person
then in charge of such premises. Service upon any responsible member of the
household shall be deemed sufficient service upon all 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, and 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 of the Board of Health 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 when such advice has been received
from the attending physician.
After isolation or quarantine of any person affected with or exposed
to a communicable disease shall have been established by a physician, such
person shall not leave the apartment or premises where he or she is so isolated,
nor shall any other person remove such person or permit him to be removed,
unless a permit for such removal shall first have been issued by the Health
Officer of the Board of Health.
When violations of quarantine or isolation methods are observed, which
the family cannot or will not correct, the Health Officer of the Board of
Health shall request the assistance of the attending physician, and should
these measures fail and the patient's or parent or guardian's consent to a
removal to a sanatorium or hospital be refused, they then become subject to
the penalties of this code, on the grounds that the patient is a menace to
the health of others; where the patient is a minor the parents or guardian
shall be subject to the penalty prescribed in this code.