ART. 43] BUREAU OF BACTERIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY. 1083

nuisances and de-vise means for their control; it shall publish monthly
a bulletin for health officers and perform such other duties and exercise
such other functions as the state board of health or the secretary thereof
shall designate.

1910, ch. 560, sec. 21 c (p. 141).

26. The bureau of bacteriology shall conduct inquiries into the
nature, source and vehicles of infectious diseases; it shall establish and
maintain, under the direction of the state board of health, a properly
equipped laboratory The services of the said bureau shall be free to
all local boards of health and to all practicing physicians of the State
for such inquiries concerning infectious and contagious diseases as the
said board may from time to time direct, and to the vaccine agent for
testing vaccine virus; it shall examine into and analyze public and
private water supplies, milk and other foods, and shall perform such
other duties and exercise such other functions as the said board of
health or secretary thereof shall designate.*

1910, ch. 560. sec. 21 D (p. 141).

27. The bureau of chemistry shall conduct inquiries into the nature,
source and vehicles of infectious diseases, and into the nature and char-
acter of sewage, trades wastes, and into nuisances. It shall examine
and analyze free of cost, public and private water supplies, milk and
such other foods, drinks, confectionery, drugs, spices and condiments
as the board shall direct; it shall establish and maintain, under the
direction of the state board of health, a properly equipped laboratory,
and perform such other duties and exercise such other functions as the
state board of health or the secretary thereof shall designate. Nothing
herein contained, however, shall be construed to repeal or interfere in
any way whatsoever with the operation of the pure food and drug act,
which is entitled "An Act for preventing the manufacture or sale of
adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medi-
cines, waters, candies and liquors, and regulating traffic therein within
the State of Maryland, and to provide for the punishment of violations
of its provisions and to appropriate an annual sum of money for the
purpose of enforcing this act by adding certain additional sections to
article 43, title 'Health,' sub-title Adulteration of Food and Drink,
of the code of public general laws of Maryland of 1904, and to be known
as 140A, 140 B, 140c, 140 D, 140E, 140F, 140G, 140H. 140I, 140J, 140K,
140L, 140M, 140N, and 140 O, and repeal sections 122, 123, 124, 140L,
140M, 140N, and 140 O, and repeal sections 221 and 222 and 125 of
said article 43 of the code of public general laws of Maryland of 1904,
and also to repeal sections 221 and 222 of article 27 of the code of
public general laws of Maryland of 1904, title 'Crimes and Punish-

*While the official copy of the act of 1910, ch. 560, section 21 c (p. 141), ends
abruptly after the syllable "func" in the last sentence of this section, an examina-
tion of the original act as passed shows the section as above codified.