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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Duties of a
physician.

34I. Whenever any physician knows that any person under

his professional care is afflicted with pulmonary or laryngeal

tuberculosis, he shall transmit to the secretary of the State Board

of Health, within seven clays, and upon blanks provided by the

State Board of Health for that purpose, the name, age, sex,

color, occupation, social condition and residence of such per-

son. And any physician failing or refusing to comply with

the requirements of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis-

demeanor and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine

of ten dollars.

Apartments
to be disin-

34J. The apartments occupied by any consumptive shall be

fected

deemed infected, and when vacated by the death or removal of

said consumptive occupant shall be disinfected by the Board

of Health of the city, town or county in which such apartments

are situated. And it shall be the duty of the householder, phy-

sician or other person having knowledge of the facts, to notify

the local board of health within forty-eight hours after the death

or removal of a person affected with pulmonary or laryngeal

tuberculosis. And any person failing to comply with the pro-

visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars.

Occupying in-
fected

34K. Any person who lets for hire or causes or permits any

rooms.

one to occupy apartments previously occupied by a consump-

tive, before such apartments shall have been disinfected by a

board of health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

convictio'n thereof shall be fined twenty-five dollars.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 413.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars,

or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by

the Board of Public Works in repairing the wharf property

adjacent to and occupied by State Tobacco Warehouses Nos.

1 and 2, and in repairing necessary furniture and fixtures in

any of the State Tobacco Warehouses in Baltimore City, and

in making repairs to any said State Tobacco Warehouses,

the amount to be taken from the Tobacco Warehouse Fund.

Appropria-

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

tion for
State wharf

land, That the Comptroller of this State be and he is hereby

authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the Treas-

urer of this State in favor of the Board of Public Works for

the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as

may be necessary, which sum is hereby appropriated out of the

Tobacco Warehouse Fund for the purpose of repairing the

wharf property occupied by Tobacco Warehouses Nos. 1 and

2 and adjacent thereto, and for procuring [ ]