30:9-40 - Removal of cases to hospital; rheumatic fever cases - New Jersey Statutes

30:9-40.  Removal of cases to hospital;  rheumatic fever cases
    The board of managers or hospital committee, through its employees, shall remove and convey to the county hospital for communicable diseases each person within the county afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, or showing  pronounced symptoms thereof, whenever the disease is of such character, or the  residential conditions are such that removal to the hospital is necessary to  prevent contagion or infection, under such suitable regulations as the board of  managers or hospital committee may prescribe, with the purpose of preventing  the spread of disease.  The board of managers or hospital committee, through  its employees, shall have authority to admit and treat, under suitable  restrictions prescribed by the management, persons suffering with rheumatic  fever.

     Amended by L.1945, c. 43, p. 107, s. 1.