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ART. XLIII] INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 303
fails or refuses to give such notice he shall be fined not less than ten
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars,
1904, art. 43, sec. 52. 1898, ch. 436, sec. 34C. 1916, ch. 243.
65. The health officers of cities, towns, counties and districts shall
keep record of all reports and notifications received in pursuance of
Sections 63 and 64, and such record shall contain the names of all per-
sons who are sick with infectious or contagious diseases, the localities
in which they live, the disease with which they are affected, together
with the date of such reports, the names of persons reporting any such
cases, and the record of quarantine, isolation, disinfection and other
preventive measures. The Board of Health shall give the school boards
of health of their respective counties, cities, or towns immediate infor-
mation of cases of infectious or contagious diseases reported to them
according to this sub-title. The State Board of Health shall prepare
and furnish to all local health officers printed forms for the recording
and preservation of information required by Sections 64 to 66.
1904, art. 43, sec. 53. 1898, ch. 436, sec. 34D. 1916, ch. 243.
66. Whenever any health officer of city, town, county or district
shall be notified of the occurrence of a case of smallpox, diphtheria,
scarlet fever, typhoid fever, yellow fever, malarial fever, or any other
contagious or infectious disease, within his sanitary jurisdiction, he
shall take immediate steps to prevent the spread of the disease. He
shall give notice in writing to the school authorities of any contagious
or infectious disease affecting school children, or likely to endanger the
health of school children. He shall within twenty-four hours transmit
to the State Board of Health such information as he has obtained con-
cerning every case of infectious or contagious disease which has come
to his knowledge. It shall be his duty to cooperate with the State
Board of Health in the enforcement of sections 64 to 66 within his
jurisdiction. The State Board of Health shall prepare and distribute
to all local health officers, the printed forms necessary to carry out the
provisions of sections 64 to 66.
Tuberculosis.
1904, art. 43, sec. 67. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 2. 1916, ch. 242, sec. 94.
94. Whenever any hotel keeper, keeper of a boarding house, lodg-
ing house, superintendent, manager or director of a hospital or private
or public institution of any kind shall know or shall have reason to
believe that any guest, inmate, or other person in the hotel, boarding
house, lodging house, or institution of which he or she may have control
or supervision, or on the premises thereof, is sick with or convalescing
from smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or typhoid fever, scarlet
fever, leprosy or any other contagious or infectious disease, the said
owner, proprietor, manager, or other person having charge shall immedi-
ately give notice thereof in writing to the health officer of the city, town
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