702

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

officer of any city town or county requiring such nuisance to

be abated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on

conviction thereof shall be fined ten dollars ; provided, that the

Applies only

requirements of this section shall apply only to pulmonary and

to tubercu-
losis, pneu-

laryngeal tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and such other dis-

monia, etc.

eases as the State Board of Health may from time to time de-

termine to be communicable by means of sputum, saliva or other

bodily secretion or excretion.

Duty of at-

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the physician attending any

tending phy-

sician.

case of pulmonnry or larvngeal tuberculosis to provide for the

safety of all individuals occupying the same house or apart-

ment, and if no physician be attending such patient this duty

shall devolve upon the local health board, and all duties made

incumbent upon the physician in the following sections shall be

performed by the local board of health in all cases of pul-

monary or larvngeal tuberculosis not attended by a physician

or when the physician is unwilling or unable to perform the du-

ties specified.

Duty of the

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the local board of health to

local board
of health.

transmit to the physician reporting any case of pulmonary or

larvngeal tuberculosis a printed report, after the manner and

form to be prepared and authorized by the State Board of

Health, naming such procedures and precautions as in the

opinion of the State Board of Health are necessary or desirable

to be taken on the premises of the said tuberculosis case, and

it shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to print and

keep on hand a sufficient number of such report blanks and to

furnish the same in sufficient numbers to any local board of

health upon due requisition of the latter. Upon receipt of the

blank report the physician shall fill, sign and date the same and

return to the local board of health without delay ; provided,

that if the attending physician is unwilling or unable to under-

take the procedures and precautions specified he shall so state

upon this report, and the duties herein prescribed shall then de-

volve upon the local board of health. Upon receipt of this re-

port the local board of health shall carefully examine the same,

and if satisfied that the said attending physician shall have

taken all necessary and desirable precautions to insure the safe-

Apartments

ty of all persons living in the house or apartments occupied by

occupied by
consump-

the consumptive, and to insure the safety of the people of the

tives.

State of Maryland, the said local board of health shall issue an

order on the State Board of Health in favor of the attending

physician for the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, to

be paid by the State Board of Health out of a fund herein-

after provided. If the precautions taken by the attending phy-

sician are, in the opinion of the local board of health, not such

as will remove all reasonable danger or probability of danger

to the persons occupying the said house or apartment, the local

board of health shall return to the attending physician the re-

port blank with a letter specifying the additional precautions

which they shall require him to take ; and the said attending phy-

sician shall immediately take the additional precautions specified