ART. 43] REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS. 647

1904, art. 43, sec. 19. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6N. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 19.
1914, ch. 747, sec. 19.

21. Every physician, midwife and undertaker shall, without delay,
register his or her name, address and occupation with the local registrar
of the district in which he or she resides or may hereafter establish a
residence, and shall thereupon be supplied by the local registrar with a
copy of sections 9, 11-13, 15-17 and 21, together with such rules and
regulations as may be prepared by the State Board of Health relative
to its enforcement. Within thirty days after the close of each calendar
year each local register shall make a return to the State Register of
all physicians, midwives and undertakers who have been registered in
his district during the whole or any part of the preceding calendar
year; provided, that no fee or other compensation shall be charged by
local registrars to physicians, midwives or undertakers for registering
their names under this section or making returns thereof to the State
Registrar.

All superintendents or managers or other persons in charge of
hospitals, almshouses, lying-in Or other institutions, public or private,
to which persons resort for treatment of diseases or are confined or are
committed by process of law are hereby required to make record of all
the personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their
institutions on April 13, 1914, that are required in the forms or the
certificates provided for in sections 9, 11-13, 15-17 and 21, as directed
by the State Registrar, and thereafter such record shall be by them
made for all future inmates at the time of their admission. And in case
of persons admitted or committed for medical treatment of disease the
'physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record the nature of
the disease, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted. The personal
particulars and information .'required by this section shall be obtained
from the individual himself if it is practicable to do so, and when they
cannot be so obtained they shall be secured in as complete a manner as
possible from relatives, friends or other persons acquainted with the
facts,*

1912, ch. 696, sec. 19A.

. 21A. The chief of the Bureau of Vital Statistics shall be assistant
State registrar of vital statistics.*

1912, ch. 696, sec. 19B.

21B... For the purpose of executing the provisions of this sub-title,
the sum' of five thousand dollars annually, or so 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 proper vouchers.*+

*The act of 1912, chapter 696, went into effect July 1, 1912.

+The sub-title "State Registrar of Vital Statistics" ends with section 21B.