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STATE BOARD OF UNDERTAKERS.
(All Terms Expire in May, 1920.)
Name. Postoffice.
Ex-officio Members:
Dr. John S. Fulton. ............. .Secretary State Board of Health
Dr. John D. Blake. ............ .Health Commissioner of Baltimore
Dr. William T. Howard..... Asst. Health Commissioner of Baltimore
Members Appointed by the Governor:
David Sondheim .....................................Baltimore
Graham F. Walker. .................................. .Baltimore
Thomas W. Jenkins. ................................. .Baltimore
Frederick A. Krause.. .......................... . ... .Baltimore
Charles F. Evans. ................................... .Baltimore
Henry W. Mears. .................................... .Baltimore
George Knell ........................................Baltimore
Governor, with consent of Senate, appoints seven, who, with the
Secretary of the State Board of Health and the Commissioner and Assist-
ant Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City, constitute the Board.
(Ch. 496, 1908.)
All persons, co-partnerships and corporations in Baltimore city before
engaging in the business of undertaking or preparing bodies for burial,
shall first apply to the State Board of Undertakers for a license, if the
Board after an investigation of the application and the applicant is of
the opinion that he is entitled to such license, it is authorized to grant
the same upon the payment of twenty-five dollars. The applicant is then
registered as a duly licensed undertaker.
All licenses expire annually on the 30th day of April, but renewals of
the same can be secured, after examination, upon the payment of five
dollars. The penalty for violations of this provision relating to registra-
tion is a fine of not more than ten dollars or imprisonment for not more
than one year, or both.
STATE VACCINE AGENT.
(Ch. 204, 1916, abolished the State Vaccine Agent and puts his duties
under the State Board of Health.)
CHIEF VETERINARY INSPECTOR.
(Term Expires 1920.)
Name. Postoffice.
Dr. Frederick L. Felber. ............................. .Baltimore
The Governor appoints one, whose term of office expires with that
of the Governor. (Bagby Code, Art. 58, Sec. 5.)
It is the duty of the Chief Veterinary inspector to visit the stables
of the cities and counties of this State, wherever and whenever he has
reason to believe contagions or infectious disease may exist, and has
the power to make such visits at any hour of the day between sunrise
and sunset, and order all animals exposed to contagion or infection to be
isolated in such manner as the nature thereof may, in his judgment,
render necessary to prevent the spreading of such disease; to order that
any premises, farm or farms, stables or railway cars, where such dis-
ease exists or has existed, be put in quarantine, properly disinfected; to
prescribe expedient regulations if he so deems necessary to prevent
infection or contagion, it is the duty of all veterinarians to report im-
mediately to this Department all cases of any infections or contagious
diseases among live stock which, may come to their knowledge, under
penalty, it is also his duty to see that all animals having any contagious
or infectious disease, be slaughtered if same be necessary to prevent the
spread of disease.
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