648 HEALTH. [ART. 43

Miscellaneous.

1910, ch. 560, sec. 21C (p. 141). 1912, ch. 153, sec. 21C.
26. The Bureau of Bacteriology shall conduct inquiries into the
nature, source and vehicles of infectious diseases; it shall establish and
maintain under the direction of the State Board of Health a properly
equipped laboratory. The services of the said bureau shall be free to
all local boards of health and to all practicing physicians of the State
for such inquiries concerning infectious and contagious diseases as the
said board may from time to time direct; and to the vaccine agent for
testing vaccine virus; it shall examine into and analyze public and
private water supplies, milk and other foods. It shall examine properly
prepared specimens from all animals known or suspected to be suffer-
ing from hydrophobia or rabies, and shall perform such, other duties and
exercise such other functions as the State Board of Health or the sec-
retary thereof shall designate.

1910, eh. 560, sec. 211 (p. 143): 1912, ch. 352.

32. For the purpose of making effective the provisions of sections
24 to 32 the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars per annum, 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.

1904, art. 43, sec. 25. 1888, art. 43, sec. 11. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 4. 1902, ch. 475.

1914, ch. 742.

36. The local board of health of each County shall meet semi-
annually in the months of May and October and as much oftener as
they may deem necessary; they shall act in conjunction with the State
Board of Health and shall report to said board such facts in reference
to the sanitary condition of their respective Counties as they may deem
important or necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules
and regulations concerning nuisances and causes of sickness within
their respective jurisdiction subject to the provisions of this Article;
they may regulate all fees and charges in connection with their own
regulations and shall establish the salaries of their respective County
health officers on the following maximum basis: not exceeding, in
Counties having a population of 15,000 or less, $150.00 per annum,
with an additional allowance of not more than $100.00 per annum for
each 8,000 of population in excess of 15,000. Provided, that in Mont-
gomery County it shall be the duty of the Cbunty Commissioners to
meet exclusively as a board of health on the first Wednesday of each
month; and provided further, that it shall be the duty of the health
officer of said Montgomery County, in addition to those duties other-
wise prescribed by law, in instances of contagion to fumigate all school
and other public buildings, the materials therefor to be provided by
said board of health, and provided further that the salary as health
officer for said Montgomery County shall be $1,200 per annum. And