ART. 43] HEALTH. 633

State Board of Health.

1904, art. 43, sec. 2. 1888, art 43, sec. 2. 1880, ch. 483, sec. 3. 1914, ch. 675.

2. The State Board of Health shall have the general care of the
sanitary interests of the people of this State; they shall make sanitary
investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and

especially epidemics, the causes of mortality and the influence of local-
ity, employments, habits and other circumstances and conditions upon
the health of the people; they shall inquire into and investigate all nui-
sances affecting the public health and are authorized and empowered,
by information or petition filed in the name of the Board, to apply to

the Judges or to any Judge of the Circuit Court for the county in which

such nuisance shall exist, or to the Judge of the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, as the case may be, in term, time or vacation, for an injunc-
tion to restrain and prevent such nuisance no matter by whom or what
authority committed. They shall have the power to enter upon and
inspect private property in regard to the presence of nuisances, cases

of infectious and contagious diseases and to determine the cause and
source of diseases; to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with
law regulating the character and location of plumbing, drainage, water
supply, disposal of sewage, garbage or other waste material and offen-
sive trades; the sanitary condition of streets, alleys, outhouses, cess-
pools and all sanitary features connected therewith; no rule or regula-
tion, however, to carry a higher penalty than one hundred dollars for

each offense and all such rules and regulations to bear the seal of the
State Board of Health and be attested by its secretary and be published
not less than three times in some daily newspaper published in the

<city of Baltimore, such rules and regulations not to be effective until
thirty days after their publication.
See sections 22 and 23.

1914, ch. 675.

2A. The State Board of Health by any member thereof shall have
power to administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, com-
pel the attendance of witnesses and production of papers, books, docu-
ments and testimony. In case of the failure of any person to comply
with any subpoena lawfully issued, or on refusal of any witness to
testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated,
it shall be the duty of the Circuit Court of any county or the judge
thereof, or of either of the Circuit Courts of Baltimore city or the
judges thereof, on application of any member of the State Board of
Health, to compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt.
Every witness who shall appear before the Board by its orders shall
receive for his attendance the fees now provided for witnesses in civil
cases in courts of record, which shall be audited and paid by the State
in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid upon the
presentation of properly verified vouchers. But no witness subpoenaed
at the instance of parties other than the Board shall be entitled to com-