652 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1910, ch. 722, sec. 55M (p. 146). 1912, ch. 94, sec. 55M.

81. Any midwife who shall be convicted of producing an abortion
or inducing premature labor, shall, in addition to the penalties already
provided by law, forfeit at once his or her license to practice mid-
wifery.

1910, ch. 722, see. 55N (p. 146). 1912, ch. 94, sec. 55N.

82. Any person other than a regularly licensed physician who shall
attend a woman in 'childbirth, for hire, or who shall make a practice
of attending women in childbirth, shall be regarded as a midwife with-
in the meaning of sections 69-83A.

1910, ch. 722, sec. 55 O (p. 146). 1912, ch. 94, sec. 55 O.

83. Nothing in sections 69-83A shall be taken as amending or
abridging the right of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Bal-
timore to make such additional rules and regulations as they may deem
necessary or proper to regulate the practice of midwifery in Baltimore
City.

1912, ch. 94, sec. 55P.

83A. The State Board of Health shall be charged with the duty of
rendering effective the provisions of sections 69-83A and shall institute
proceedings in the proper courts of this State for the enforcement of
the penalties made and provided in sections 69-8 3A. It shall be the
duty of all county health officers to furnish full and prompt informa-
tion of any violations of the provisions of sections 69-83A within their
respective jurisdictions. Such county health officers are authorized
and empowered to institute proceedings in any of the proper courts of
this State for the enforcement of the penalties provided by sections 69-
83A and in such case they shall furnish prompt and full reports of
their actions and of the judgment of the court in which such actions
shall be tried.

Tuberculosis.

1904, art. 43, sec. 65. 1904, ch. 399, sec. 5. 1912, ch. 512.
93. The State Board of Health shall prepare and keep on hand
all the circulars, blanks and printed matter required by the preceding
section and all additional printed matter necessary in executing these
provisions, and shall issue the same in sufficient quantity to the local
boards of health upon due requisition of the latter; and the said State
Board of Health shall further purchase and issue upon due requisition
to the local boards of health, the supplies herein required. For the
purpose of defraying the expenses of printed matter and postage, for
recompensing physicians for measures of prophylaxis, and for purchas-
ing and issuing the supplies necessary in carrying out these provisions,
the sum of ten thousand dollars annually or as much thereof as may
be necessary is hereby appropriated, payable by the Treasurer of the