1104 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1904, art. 43, sec. 69. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 4.

97. In any town, village or other place in this State, where no
special health department has been established or constituted by the
charter or other act of incorporation of any such town or village,
or in case the sanitary law or regulations in places where boards of
health or health officer exist should be inoperative, the state board
of health shall make such regulations respecting nuisances, sources of
filth and causes of sickness as they shall judge necessary for the public
health and safety.

Ibid. sec. 70. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 5.

98. The said board of health shall also make such regulations as
they may deem necessary for the public health and safety, respecting
any articles which are capable of containing or conveying any infection
or contagion, or creating any sickness, or for the disinfecting of any
house, room or premises where contagious or infectious diseases has
existed; and any person who shall sustain damages by reason thereof,
shall receive compensation in accordance with the provisions of section
42; if any person shall violate or refuse or neglect to comply with any
such regulation, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

As to the vaccination of children before being admitted to the public
schools, see art. 77, sec. 66.

Ibid. sec. 71. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 6.

99. In any town or village where no special health department has
been established, the state board of health is hereby empowered to make
such rules and regulations in relation to the care and cleansing of
privies, pig-pens and other noxious places, as they may deem desirable
for the preservation of the health of any of the inhabitants thereof,
or the said board may declare any such privy, pig-pen or other noxious
place a nuisance, and the abatement thereof be by the said board, or
its executive officer, ordered and enforced.

Ibid. sec. 72. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 7.

100. Any violation, or neglect or refusal to comply with any rule
or regulation of the said board under sections 94 to 99, both inclusive,
shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discre-
tion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 73. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 8.

101. Upon complaint made in writing by the state board of health,
or its executive officer, before any justice of the peace, charging the
commission of an offense against the provisions of said sections 94 to
99, both inclusive, it shall be the duty of the state's attorney of the
county or town, in which such offense is committed, to prosecute the
offender.