30:9-40 - Removal of cases to hospital; rheumatic fever cases
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.