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302 . HEALTH. [ART. XLIII
four removes from the cow, for the use of the physicians residing and
practising medicine and surgery in this State.
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
1004, art. 43, sec. 41. 1888, art. 43, sec. 26. 1864, ch. 269, sec. 2. 1916, ch. 204.
54. The State Board of Health shall keep on hand, and procure
as often as may be necessary, pure vaccine virus, and furnish such
virus to the physicians of the State, gratuitously, when called for; said
Board shall keep a record of the name and location of each physician
so furnished with virus, together with the quantities, qualities and num-
ber of times and shall advertise once a month in one or more of the
newspapers published in the city of Baltimore, and once during the
year (three insertions) in one paper of each county.*
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
1904, art. 43, sec. 48. 1888, art. 43, sec. 33. 1867, ch. 6. 1872, ch. 257, sec. 11.
1916, ch. 204.
61. The State Board of Health is hereby required to take all steps
necessary to reproduce from the cow true vaccine virus, for the use of
physicians residing and practising medicine and surgery in the State,
and shall furnish none more than four removes from the cow, if prac-
ticable, and none that has not been produced under its own supervision
and direction; provided, that said Board may take, use and furnish
such virus furnished to it by any physician entrusted by it to procure
the same; such virus not to be taken from the arm of a child less than
three months old; and the said Board shall report annually to the Gov-
ernor the particular of its expenditures and other matters connected
with the duties imposed by this and the 8 preceding sections.
62. Bepealed. (Act 1916, ch. 204.;
Infectious Diseases.
1904, art. 43, sec. 51. 1898, ch. 436. sec. 34B. 1914, ch. 644. 1916, ch. 243.
64. Whenever any physician knows or has reason to believe or sus-
pect that any person under his professional care is infected with small-
pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, yellow fever,
malarial fever, or any other contagious or infectious disease dangerous
to public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof in writing
over his own signature to the Health Officer of the city, town, county
or district in which such disease exists, giving the name of the disease
or suspected disease and the name, age, race, sex, place of abode of each
person believed or suspected to be sick of the disease; and if he neglects,
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*The appropriation called for by this section (as it stood prior to the act of
1916, chapter 204), has been treated as repealed by that act; those interested,
however, should compare this section (as it formerly stood) with chapter 204.
Chapter 204 provides that nothing therein is to be construed to shorten the term
of office of the (then) vaccine agent.
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