330 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 165]

and provided further, that the said Mayor and Council shall
give not less than one nor more than three weeks' notice of the
time and places of said election of the subject of street improve-
ment by advertisement published in at least two newspapers
in the town of Pocomoke City, and that said advertisement
so to be published shall set out in full all the provisions of this
act, and that the cost of said advertisement shall not exceed
in either paper the sum of twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted (provided a majority of the
qualified voters participating in said election aforesaid shall
vote for street improvement), That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 165.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 43 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Health," sub-
title "State Board of Health," to follow after section 5 of
said article, and to be known as section 5A, said new section
providing for reports of occupational diseases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be added to Article 43 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Health,"
sub-title "State Board of Health," to follow after section 5 of
said article, to be known as section 5A, be and the same is
hereby enacted to read as follows:

SEC. 5A. Every physician attending on or called in to visit
a patient whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from
lead, phosphorus, arsenic or mercury or their compounds, or
from anthrax, or from compressed-air illness, or any other ail-
ment or disease contracted as a result of the nature of the
patient's employment, shall send to the State Board of Health
a written notice stating the name and full postal address and
place of employment of the patient, and the nature of the
occupation and the disease from which in the opinion of the
physician the patient is suffering, with such other specfic
information as may be required by the State Board of Health.
If any physician, when required by this section to send a notice,
fails forthwith to send the same, he shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding ten dollars. It shall be the duty of the State Board
of Health to enforce the provisions of this act, and it may call