[1997 Code § 373-7]
A.
Every physician shall report, in writing, to this Board of Health
the name and address of every patient he or she shall have in the
City of Absecon City with anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebrospinal meningitis
(epidemic cerebrospinal fever, spotted fever), chicken pox, cholera,
diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, membraneous croup, putrid sore throat),
epidemic dysentery, erysipelas, German measles, glanders (farcy),
hookworm, influenza, infantile paralysis, leprosy, malarial fever,
measles, mumps, pneumonia, rabies (hydrophobia), scarlet fever (scarletina,
scarlet rash), smallpox (varioloid), tetanus, trachoma, tuberculosis
(specify form), typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, yellow
fever or any other communicable diseases that may be hereafter declared
by this Bureau to be dangerous to the public health, together with
the precise locality where such patient may be found, within 24 hours
after first seeing the case.
B.
The physician shall also furnish or supply the data on the blank
forms supplied by the Board of Health.
[1997 Code § 373-9]
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Board of Health
to establish the true character of any disease which is supposed to
be communicable, a medical examination of the person or persons affected
by such disease may be ordered by the Health Officer. No person or
persons shall interfere with or refuse to permit such an examination
under penalty hereinafter described.
[1997 Code § 373-9]
No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school or other school officer shall knowingly permit any child sick with any disease mentioned in Section 373-7A of this Article, or with any other 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 or class under his or her charge until such a time as the Health Officer certifies to said teacher, principal or other school officer that said child is free of communicating the disease to others.
[1997 Code § 373-10]
No persons from any dwelling wherein a disease dangerous to
the public health exists shall take any book, paper or periodical
or magazine to or from any circulating or public library. The Board
of Health will inform the librarian of all cases of the diseases,
and until a written permit is given, the permit to be signed by the
Health Officer, said librarian shall allow no book, paper or periodical
or magazine to be taken or returned from a dwelling where such case
exists.
[1997 Code § 373-11]
No person shall remove milk bottles from a building wherein
a disease dangerous to the public health exists or has existed until
he or she shall have first obtained permission, in writing, from the
Board of Health.
[1997 Code § 373-12]
Every person in the City of Absecon City with any communicable
disease shall be isolated as the Health Officer may direct, and all
buildings, clothing, property, premises and vehicles which may be
infected as the emanations from such persons shall be disinfected
as the Health Officer may direct. No premises shall be disinfected
after diphtheria until at least two negative cultures taken on successive
days have been obtained from the throat of the patient, or from the
nose in the case of nasal diphtheria. In the case of scarlet fever,
disinfection will not be undertaken until at least four weeks after
the onset. In case a coach, hack, cab, carriage or other vehicle shall
be used for the conveyance of a patient suffering from a communicable
disease, said vehicle shall be disinfected under the direction of
the Board of Health before using again.
[1997 Code § 373-13]
Whenever a person with tuberculosis moves out of a house or
an apartment, the attending physician, if there is one, or the active
head of the family shall so notify the Board of Health within 24 hours,
and both of the above-mentioned persons shall be held equally responsible
for a violation of this section.
[1997 Code § 373-14]
Every veterinarian or other person who is called to examine
or professionally attend any animal in the City of Absecon City having
glanders or farcy, rabies, tuberculosis or any other communicable
disease shall, within 24 hours thereafter, report in writing to the
Board of Health the following facts:
[1997 Code § 373-15; N.J.S.A. 26:3-70]
A.
In case infectious, contagious or communicable diseases occur in
the City of Absecon City, the person or persons affected thereby shall,
in the discretion of the Health Officer, be isolated, or said person
or persons may be removed to such locality as the Health Officer may
direct, and all buildings, clothing, property, premises and vehicles
which may become infected by any communicable disease shall be disinfected,
and disinfection or fumigation shall be made and performed in such
manner and with such materials and within such stated time as the
Health Officer may establish such separation, isolation or quarantine
of the sick from other persons not necessary as attendants, and the
Health Officer may quarantine and placard such buildings and premises
against egress and ingress of unauthorized persons and also provide
and effect such special care, disinfection and cleansing of property
and premises as shall, in his judgment, be required in order to prevent
spreading disease to other persons. The Health Officer is hereby authorized
and empowered to enforce the provisions of this section, and he may
employ and call such assistance as he deems necessary to enforce the
same.
B.
Every person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section
shall, for each offense, upon conviction be liable to a penalty of
not less than $10 nor more than $500.
