A.
The following diseases and conditions are hereby declared
to be reportable, and it shall be the duty of every physician, within
12 hours after the disease has been diagnosed, to report the name,
age, disease or condition and the precise location of the person so
affected to the Health Department:
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Communicable:
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Amebiasis
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Anthrax
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Brucellosis
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Cholera
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Dengue
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Diarrhea of newborn
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Diphtheria
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Food poisonings
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Glanders
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Infectious encephalitis
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Infectious hepatitis, including serum hepatitis
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Influenza
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Leptospirosis
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Malaria
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Measles (rubeola)
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Meningococcal meningitis
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Ophthalmia neonatorum
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Pertussis (whooping cough)
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Plague
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Pneumonia, all forms
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Poliomyelitis
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Psittacosis
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Q fever
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Rabies
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Rubella
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Salmonellosis (other than typhoid fever)
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Shigellosis
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Smallpox
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Streptococcal sore throat, including scarlet
fever
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Trachoma
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Trichinosis
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Tuberculosis, all forms
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Tularemia
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Typhoid fever
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Typhus fever
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Yellow fever
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Noncommunicable:
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Botulism
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Cerebral palsy
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Dog bite
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Epilepsy
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Leprosy
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Mental deficiency
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Plumbism (lead poisoning)
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Tetanus
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B.
Physicians having knowledge of any outbreak of a disease not listed in Subsection A above or of unusual manifestations of disease shall report the facts to the Health Officer in whose jurisdiction the condition exists, who shall make an investigation and submit a report thereof to the State Department of Health.
Every house owner or householder who shall know of or have reason to suspect the existence of any person affected with any disease or condition mentioned in § 292-3A, who is in or upon any premises owned or occupied by him (or her) and who is not being attended by a physician, shall report immediately to the Health Department the existence of such person and all necessary facts within the knowledge of the person making such report as to the name, address, age and sex of the person having or suspected of having such disease or condition.
The principal or person in charge of every school shall immediately exclude from school or isolate any child or person in such school who appears to be affected with any communicable disease mentioned in § 292-3A and shall immediately report such fact to the Health Department, together with the name and address of such child or person and the supposed nature of the disease.
Whenever a communicable disease as listed in § 292-3A exists in any house or upon any premises, the Health Department may cause a placard stating the name of the disease to be posted in a conspicuous place upon such house or premises, and no person shall conceal, mutilate, destroy or remove such placard except by authority of the Health Department.
Every person affected with, suspected to be affected with or exposed to any communicable disease mentioned in § 292-3A shall, until officially released by the Health Department, be quarantined, isolated or restricted according to the rules and regulations of the Board of Health, and shall follow such precautions to prevent the spread or transfer of such disease as this Board or the Health Department may direct.
No person shall enter or leave the house or premises where any person is quarantined or isolated by reason of being affected with or having been exposed to any communicable disease mentioned in § 292-3A, except in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Board of Health and by permission granted by the Health Department.
A.
Syphilis, gonorrhea, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma
inguinale and chancroid are hereby declared to be infectious and communicable
venereal diseases and dangerous to the public health. Whenever the
Board of Health or Health Officer of the City of East Orange shall
receive a report from any practicing physician, nurse, welfare worker,
health inspector or any authorized officer or attache of any court
of this City that any person within the jurisdiction of the Board
or Health Officer is suffering or is suspected to be suffering from
or infected with gonorrhea, syphilis, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma
inguinale or chancroid in a communicable stage, and such person cannot
furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she is being treated for
the suspected infection by a physician licensed to practice medicine
in New Jersey, the Board of Health Officer may cause a medical examination
to be made of said person for the purpose of ascertaining whether
or not such person is in fact infected with any of the above-mentioned
venereal diseases in a communicable stage; and it shall be the duty
of every such person to submit to such examination as aforesaid and
to permit such specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken
for laboratory examination as may be necessary to establish the presence
or absence of such disease or infection in a communicable stage.
B.
All persons recently convicted on charges involving sex offenses or who are known to have been exposed to infection of any disease designated in Subsection A above shall be included under the class of "suspected persons" described in said Subsection A and may be required to submit to examination at any time, but no certificate of freedom from gonorrhea, syphilis, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale or chancroid, except a health certificate required for a marriage license or for working purposes, shall be issued.
C.
If a person infected with any disease mentioned in this section in a communicable stage shall fail to report to his (or her) physician for treatment by the physician when directed to do so, said physician shall report such failure on the part of said person to the Health Department, giving the name and address of such person and the disease with which he (or she) is infected, and the Health Department may thereupon require said person to be examined as provided for in Subsection A above.
D.
Any such person described in Subsection A, B or C above who refuses to submit to the examination provided for in Subsection A or who refuses to supply or permit to be taken the specimens provided for in said subsection, or who, upon examination, is found to be infected with gonorrhea, syphilis, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale or chancroid in a communicable state and not to be regularly treated by a licensed physician and refuses or neglects to secure such treatment by a private physician or at a clinic provided for such purpose and to remain under treatment until discharged as being no longer in a communicable stage, shall be isolated at home or in a hospital and shall take such precautions to prevent spread of the disease as the Health Department may direct.
E.
Achievement of noncommunicable or noninfectious state.
(1)
Cases of gonorrheal infection are to be regarded as
communicable until adequate treatment, as specified by the State Department
of Health, has been received by the patient and until at least two
successive smears, taken not less than 48 hours apart, fail to show
gonococci.
(2)
Cases of syphilis shall be regarded as communicable
until adequate treatment, as specified by the State Department of
Health, has been received by the patient or until the disease is of
at least four years' duration.
(3)
Cases of lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale
or chancroid shall be regarded as infectious until all lesions have
fully healed.
F.
All persons known to be or suspected of being sources of infection of any disease mentioned in this section, and all persons known to have been or suspected of having been exposed to any such infection from these sources, shall be required to undergo such examination as prescribed in Subsection A above, and if found infected, shall undergo such treatment or isolation as provided for in Subsection D above.
G.
No person infected with any of these venereal diseases in a communicable stage shall conduct himself or herself in such a manner as to expose others to infection. No person shall be permitted to conduct a boarding home for children for pay without first being examined as provided for in Subsection A above. No person infected with gonorrhea, syphilis, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale or chancroid in a communicable stage shall engage in the nursing or care of children or of the sick or in any other occupation of such a nature that his or her infection may be transmitted to others.
H.
No druggist, pharmacist or other person in the City
of East Orange shall sell, give away, prescribe or administer to any
person any drug, medicine or preparation thereof intended to be used
for the treatment, relief or cure of any disease mentioned in this
section, except upon a written prescription of a physician licensed
to practice medicine in New Jersey.
I.
No person shall publish or distribute or cause to
be published or distributed in the City of East Orange any advertisement
concerning gonorrhea, syphilis, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma
inguinale or chancroid or any other sexual function, weakness or disorder,
or calling attention to a medicine, article or preparation that may
be used therefor, or to a person or persons or an office or place
at which information, treatment or advice relative to such disease,
function, weakness or disorder may be obtained, provided that this
regulation shall not apply to didactic or scientific treatises which
do not advertise or call attention to any person or persons from whom
or to any office or place at which information, treatment or advice
concerning such disease, function, weakness or disorder may be obtained,
nor shall it apply to advertisements or notices issued by a hospital
or licensed dispensary or by the Board of Health or Health Officer
or by the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey.
Every physician, midwife, nurse or any other
person in attendance at the birth of any child shall, for the prevention
of ophthalmia neonatorum, use a one-percent solution of silver nitrate
in wax ampules or any other solution approved by the Health Department
in each eye of said child.
No person shall commit any act which may be
liable to cause, contribute or promote the spread of any disease from
any person affected with such disease, either by the exposure of any
person not affected with such disease or by any negligent act connected
with or in respect to the care or custody of the person affected.
The Health Department shall have the power to
remove to a hospital or institution any person affected with scarlet
fever (scarletina), diphtheria, meningococcic (cerebrospinal) meningitis,
smallpox, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), typhoid
fever, tuberculosis or any other communicable disease which this Board
may so designate, whenever, in the opinion of the Health Department,
such removal is necessary to prevent further spread of such disease
or whenever the isolation of such person is not effective or is contrary
to the rules and regulations of the Board of Health.
Whenever the quarantine of a public or private
building or premises is terminated by the Health Department, such
disinfection and cleansing as this Board may require shall be performed
immediately by the occupant of said public or private building or
premises.
No person shall bring into the City of East Orange any person affected with any communicable disease mentioned in § 292-3 of this article without previously obtaining a permit from the Health Department for that purpose.
A.
Whenever the Health Department shall deem it necessary
to establish the true nature of any disease which may be communicable,
the Department may require any person or persons suspected of being
so affected or any person or persons who have been exposed to a communicable
disease to have a medical examination; and it shall be the duty of
such person or persons to submit to such examination.
B.
The medical examination may include a chest X-ray,
sputum examination, blood test or any standard or recognized method
for determining the presence of communicable disease that the Board
may prescribe.
For the purpose of this chapter, all persons
who harbor or carry the causative germs of diphtheria, typhoid fever
or salmonella infections and who are commonly known as "carriers"
shall be considered as being affected with such disease and shall
be subject to and comply with all provisions of this chapter and the
rules and regulations of the Board of Health which relate to the quarantine,
isolation and control of persons affected with such diseases.
The Health Department, whenever deemed necessary
by the Board of Health, may require and order the person in charge
of any school under the jurisdiction of such Board to exclude any
or all unvaccinated children and teachers in such school and may specify
the length of time for such exclusion; and any person who shall fail
to comply with such order shall be subject to the penalty provided
by this chapter.
Every person, corporation, organization or society
maintaining a home, orphanage, nursery or other establishment for
the care and/or maintenance, in whole or in part, of infants or children
who are not members of the family shall require that each such child
be vaccinated against smallpox, immunized against diphtheria and any
other communicable disease that the Board may designate and be examined
for syphilis or gonorrhea at a time specified by the Board of Health.
No infant or child not protected and examined as provided by this
chapter shall be received by such home, orphanage, nursery or other
establishment.
The Health Department, under the direction and approval of the Board of Health, in case of an epidemic or unusual prevalence of any communicable disease, may take such measures and order done and cause to be done such acts as may be deemed necessary for the preservation of the public health and, to that end, may cause any and all schools within the territorial jurisdiction of this Board, all churches, libraries, theaters, houses, buildings and other places where people are accustomed to congregate to be closed for a specified period of time or until the epidemic or unusual prevalence of such communicable disease shall have ceased to exist. Any person who violates or neglects or refuses to comply with any such measures or orders shall be subject to the penalty as provided in Article XIII of this chapter.
[Added 5-2-1972 by Ord. No. 1-1972]
When it appears to the Health Officer that any
person shall be in danger of suffering death or severe physical or
mental illness, the Health Officer shall have the right to enter upon
any premises in the City of East Orange and cause a medical and mental
examination to be made of such person, and if the examination reveals
that the person's life or health is in danger, then such person may
be removed from the premises to suitable quarters and thereafter to
be dealt with in accordance with law.
