1102 HEALTH. [ART. 43

requisition blank shall be named the materials kept on hand by the
local board of health for the prevention of the spread of the disease,
and it shall be the duty of the state board of health to purchase such
supplies as it may deem necessary from the fund hereinafter provided,
and to supply them to any local board of health upon, due requisition of
the latter. Any physician may return a duly signed requisition to the
local board of health for such of the specified materials and in such
amount as he may deem necessary in preventing the spread of the dis-
ease, and all local boards of health shall honor, as far as possible, a
requisition signed by the attending physician in such case. It shall be
the duty of every local board of health to transmit to every physician
reporting any case of pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculsis, or to the
person reported as suffering from this disease, provided the latter has
no attending physician, a circular of information prepared and printed
by the state board of health and which shall be furnished in sufficient
quantity to every local board of health on due requisition of the latter.
This circular of information shall inform the consumptive of the best
methods of cure of his disease and of the precautions necessary to avoid
transmitting the disease to others.

1904, art. 43, sec. 64. 1904, ch. 399, sec. 4.

92. Any physician or person practising as a physician who shall
fail to execute the duties herein prescribed, or who shall knowingly
report as affected with, pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis any person
who is not so affected, or who shall wilfully make any false statement
concerning the name, age, color, sex, address or occupation of any
person reported as affected with pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis,
or who shall certify falsely as to any of the precautions taken to pre-
vent the spread of infection, shall be deemed guilty of fraud, and on
conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or
to imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 65. 1904, ch. 399, sec. 5.

93. The state board of health shall prepare and keep on hand all
the circulars, blanks and printed matter required by the preceding sec-
tion and all additional printed matter necessary in executing these pro-
visions, and shall issue the same in sufficient quantity to the local
board's of health upon due requisition of the latter; and the said state
board of health shall further purchase and issue upon due requisition to
the local boards of health the supplies herein required. For the pur-
pose of defraying the expenses of printed matter and postage, for recom-
pensing physicians for measures of prophylaxis, and for purchasing and
issuing the supplies necessary in carrying out these provisions the sum
of five thousand annually or as much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby appropriated, payable by the treasurer of the State upon warrant
of the comptroller at such times and in such sums as may be authorized
by the state board of health upon presentation of the proper voucher.