EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and shall record and return the same on the original report

blank to the local board of health. It shall further be the duty

of the local board of health to transmit to the physician report-

ing any case of pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis a printed

requisition, from which shall be prepared by the State Board of

Health and issued in sufficient number to any local board of

health upon due requisition of the latter. Upon this requisition

Printed re-

blank shall be named the materials kept on hand by the local

quisitions.

board of health for the prevention of the spread of the disease,

and it shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to pur-

chase such supplies as it may deem necessary from the fund

hereinafter provided, and to supply them to any local board

of health upon due requisition of the latter. Any physician

may return a duly signed requisition to the local board of health

for such of the specified materials and in such amount as he

may deem necessary in preventing the spread of the disease,

and all local boards of health shall honor, as far as possible, a

requisition signed by the attending physician in such case. It

shall be the duty of every local board of health to transmit to

every physician reporting any case of pulmonary or laryngeal

tuberculosis, or to the person reported as suffering from this

disease, provided the latter has no attending physician, a cir-

cular of information prepared and printed by the State Board

of Health and which shall be furnished in sufficient quantity to

every local board of health on due requisition of the latter.

This circular of information shall inform the consumptive of

Circulare in-

the best methods of cure of his disease and of the precautions

formation to
consump-

necessary to avoid transmitting the disease to others.

tives.

SEC. 4. Any physician or person practicing as a physician

Physicians

who shall fail to execute the duties prescribed by this Act, or

guilty of

who shall knowingly report as affected with pulmonary or la-

making
false state-

ryngeal tuberculosis any person who is not so affected, or who

ments.

shall wilfully make any false statement concerning the name,

age, color, sex, address or occupation of any person reported

as affected with pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis, or who

shall certify falsely as to any of the precautions taken to prevent the

spread of infection, shall be deemed guilty of fraud, and on con-

viction thereof shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dol-

Penalty.

lars, or to imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both fine

and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 5. The State Board of Health shall prepare and keep on

State Board

hand all the circulars, blanks and printed matter required by

of Health to
issue print-

the preceding section and all additional printed matter neces-

ed matter.

sary in executing the provisions of this Act, and shall issue the

same in sufficient quantity to the local boards of health upon

due requisition of the latter ; and the said State Board of Health

shall furtlier purchase and issue upon due requisition to the

local boards of health the supplies required by the provisions

of this Act. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of

printed matter and postage, for recompensing physicians for

measures of prophylaxis, and for purchasing and issuing the

the supplies necessary in carrying out the provisions of this Act,