Faced with an uncooperative community that refuses to police itself, the city Health Department now says it can’t identify the mohels whom it believes infected four infant boys with herpes.

Even the parents of the infected babies are refusing to name the persons who performed a controversial circumcision ritual on their sons, a spokesman told DNAinfo.

“Some in the community are resistant to sharing the name of the mohels,” said department spokesman Christopher Miller.

The two mohels who have been ID’d are protected from being publicly named because of privacy laws regarding their health status — but at least the city’s been able to test them for herpes.

As we’ve noted before, this is a mortal issue: Infants infected with herpes face brain damage and even death.

Leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community reportedly are fearful the city is looking to outlaw the ritual (used only by some Orthodox), in which blood from the circumcision is removed by direct oral suction.

Others say they don’t believe the circumcisers are the cause of any infections. Yet the medical evidence seems strong.

More important, it makes little difference: As the Health Department says, no one who tests positive for the herpes simplex virus should ever have oral contact with an open wound of any sort.

Last month, Mayor de Blasio ordered a $2,000 fine for infected mohels who don’t stop performing circumcisions. But that isn’t much of a deterrent.

We understand the religious-freedom (and political) sensitivities here, but community leaders two years ago got the city to back off by promising to ID infected mohels.

As Mayor de Blasio now concedes, those leaders never kept their end of the deal. With infants’ lives potentially at stake, the city can’t continue to stand by.

If community leaders refuse to keep their word, they’ll have no cause to complain if government does exactly what they fear — and the mayor will have no excuse for holding off.