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ART. 43] TUBERCULOSIS. 1099
1910, ch. 722, sec. 55 o (p. 146).
83. Nothing in sections 69 to 83 shall be taken as amending or
abridging the right of the mayor and city council of the city of Balti-
more to make such additional rules and regulations as they may deem
necessary or proper to regulate the practice of midwifery in Baltimore
city.
Tuberculosis.
1904, art. 43, sec. 56. 1904, ch. 412, sec. 34 G.
84. The state board of health of Maryland shall keep a register of
all persons in this State who are known to be afficted with tuberculosis.
The state board of health shall have sole and exclusive control 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 information.
See sec. 195, et seq.
Ibid. sec. 57. 1904, ch. 412,' sec. 34 H.
85. The superintendent or other person in charge or control of any
hospital, dispensary, school, reformatory or other 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 suffer-
ing with pulmonary 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 condition and residence
of the person or persons so affected, together with such other informa-
tion as may seem necessary or important; 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
superintendent 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.
Ibid. sec. 58. 1904, ch. 412, sec. 341.
86. Whenever any physician knows that any person under his pro-
fessional care is afflicted with pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis, he
shall transmit to the secretary of the state board of health, within
seven days, 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 person. And any physician failing or refusing to
comply with the requirements of this section shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of
ten dollars.
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