EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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in full compensation for all services required of him under this

Act. And no justice of the peace so selected for police justice

shall be permitted to charge any fee or receive a gratuity for

making any commitment, granting any release, or for the per-

formance of any duty required by the law in criminal cases.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1901.

CHAPTER 412.

AN ACT to add certain new sections to Article 43 of the Code

of Public General Laws, title "Health," sub-title "Infectious

Diseases," to follow Section 34F, and to be known as Sec-

tions 34G, 34H, 34I, 34J, 34K.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

infectious

land, That certain new sections be and the same are hereby

diseases.

added to Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"Health." sub-title "Infectious Diseases," to follow Section 34 F

and to be known as Sections 31G, 34H, 34I, 34J, 34K, and to

read as follows:

34G. From and after the passage of this Act the State Board

Persons af-
flicted with

of Health of Maryland shall keep a register of all persons in

tuberculo-

this State who are known to be afflicted with tuberculosis.

sis.

The State Board of Health shall have sole and exclusive con-

trol of said register, and shall not permit inspection thereof

nor disclose any of its personal particulars except to officials

authorized under the laws of Maryland to receive such infor-

mation.

34H. The .superintendent or other person in charge or con-

Record to be

trol of any hospital, dispensary, school, reformatory or other

kept of
same.

institution deriving the whole or any part of its support from

the public funds of the State of Maryland, or of any city,

town or county in the State of Maryland, having in charge or

under care or custody any person or persons suffering with pul-

monary or laryngeal tuberculosis, shall, within forty-eight hours

after the recognition of such disease, make or cause to be made

in the manner and form prescribed by the State Board of Health,

a record of the name, age, sex, color, occupation, social condi-

tion and residence of the person or persons so affected, together

with such other information as may seem necessary or import-

ant. And all such records shall be delivered, under seal, to the

State Board of Health, on Monday of the week immediately

following that in which the records were made. Any superin-

tendent or other person charged with a duty under this section,

who shall fail or refuse to comply with the requirements of

this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on

conviction thereof shall be fined not more than twenty-five

dollars.