1070

HEALTH.

[ART. 43

ARTICLE XLIII

HEALTH.

State Board of Health. 1. Established; members; secretary ; tenure. 2. General duties of board. 3. Meetings; shall prescribe rules and regulations; powers. 4. Shall elect their secretary. 5. Tenure and duties of secretary to board of health. 6. Chemist to board of health. State Registrar of Vital Statistics. 7. Secretary shall be State registrar of vital statistics. His duties as such. 8. Health officers of all cities and towns, not otherwise provided, shall be ex offlcio local registrars of vital statistics. 9. Sub-registrars; their duty as to burial permits, etc. 10. What record of births and deaths shall contain. 11. Blank forms of certificates and re- turns to be distributed wherever needed. 12. Permits for interment must be ob- tained; rule in case of infectious diseases. 13. How application for permit to dis- inter shall be made. 14. Certificate of birth must be fur- nished the proper officer of town or district. 15. Who shall give notice of birth or death.

16 Records of births and deaths shall be preserved by registrar and be open to inspection; proviso. 17. Fees of local registrars for serv- ices required by sections 9 to 13. 18. Registrar to bind and preserve cer- tificates. Fee for certified state- ment of birth or deafh. 19. Penalty for failure to report birth or death. 20. Temporary operation by state board, of local registration office. 21. Appropriation for defraying ex- penses of office of State registrar 22. Compensation of State board of health; proviso. 23. Duty of State board of health in event of Invasion of contagious disease. 24. Five bureaus to be established. 25. Bureau of communicable diseases. 26. Bureau of bacteriology. 27. Bureau of chemistry. 28. Bureau of sanitary engineering. 29. Bureau of vital statistics. 30. Chiefs and assistants for each bu- reau. 31. How State board and secretary known. 32. Appropriation. 33. County commissioners shall consti- tute local boards of health. 34. Shall appoint county health officer. 35. Appointment of certain physicians as sub-registers to issue burial permits; compensation; lists of information. 36. Meetings of local boards; shall pre- scribe rules and regulations.

As to "hospitals," see art. 44. As to "Inspections," see art. 48. As to "hours of
labor" and employment of children, see art. 100.

As to diseased fruit and trees, see art. 48, sec. 66, et seq. As to accidents
resulting from an explosion of oil, etc., see art. 48, sec. 5, et seq.

As to "feeding stuffs," see art. 48, sec. 80, et seq.

As to the protection of workmen et al. against unsafe scaffolding, see art. 48,
sec. 75, et seq.