ART. 43] INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 1103

1904, art. 43, sec. 66. 1860, ch. 622, sec. 1.

94. Whenever any physician or person acting as a physician shall
know or shall have Cause to believe that any person whom he has
attended during the last illness of such person in this State, outside the
limits of the city of Baltimore, has died of small-pox, cholera, yellow
fever, typhoid or typhus fever, diphtheria, leprosy or any other disease
of a contagious, infectious or epidemic character, the said physician or
person acting as a physician shall, over his own signature, immediately
give notice thereof to the secretary of the state board of health, which
notice shall state the cause of the death, the name, age, sex and color
of the deceased, and such other information in connection with the
existence and spread of the disease, as may be deemed important for
the protection of the public health; and if no physician has been in
attendance during the last illness, or at the time of the death of such
person, then it shall be the duty of the householder, in whose house or
upon whose premises the death occurred, to transmit to the secretary
of the state board of health the facts in accordance with the require-
ments of this section.
See sec. 41, et seq.

Ibid. sec. 67. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 2.

95. Whenever any hotel keeper, keeper of a boarding or lodging-
house, superintendent, manager or director of a private or public insti-
tution of any kind shall know, or be informed by a physician, or shall
have reason to believe that any guest, inmate or other person in the
hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or institution over which he or
she may have control or supervision, or on the premises thereof, is
sick with or convalescing from small-pox, cholera, yellow fever, typhus
or typhoid fever, scarlet fever, leprosy or any other contagious or
infectious disease, the said owner, proprietor, manager or other person
having charge shall immediately give notice thereof in writing to the
health officer of the city or town in which the infected house or prem-
ises is located or to the secretary of the state board of health, if there
is no local heal th officer who can efficiently deal with the case; said
notice shall state the name and place of residence of the person sick,
the name of the disease, the name of the owner, proprietor or manager
of the house and the locality of said house, and it shall be the duty
of the local or state health officer, as the case may be, to take such
steps and do such things as may be necessary to render effective the
provisions of sections 41 to 50, both inclusive.

Ibid. sec. 68. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 3.

96. Any person or persons who shall neglect or refuse to comply
with the provisions of the two foregoing sections shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof in a court of
competent jurisdiction be fined not more than fifty dollars for every
such offense.