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.