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sioners of the cities and towns in the State to cause this section to be en-
forced, and whenever any of its provisions are. violated, to cause all viola-
tors thereof to be prosecuted, and for that purpose the health commissioner
or commissioners and the officer or officers of the board of health of every
city and town in the State, or the inspectors thereof, or any other persons
designated by such board of health or health commissioner or commis-
sioners are authorized and empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable
hours and as often as shall be practicable and necessary all mercantile
establishments in the city or town in which the office of the said board or
department of health or health commissioner or commissioners is situated,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or obstruct any
such inspecting official while in the performance of his or her duties, or to
refuse to properly and truthfully answer questions made pertinent by this
section when asked by such inspecting official.

Health—Schools.

An. Code, sec. 261. 1904, sec. 240. 1894, ch. 524, sec. 1.

294. Boards of school commissioners in every city and county of the
State shall provide suitable and convenient water closets or outhouses for
each of the schools under their official jurisdiction, not less than two for
each school or building when both sexes are in attendance in .their respec-
tive school districts, with separate means of access for each, and unless
placed at a remote distance, one from another, the approaches or walks
thereto shall be separated by a substantial close fence not less than seven
feet high, and it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to make pro-
visions for keeping the said water closets or outhouses in clean, comfortable
and healthful condition.

An. Code, sec. 262. 1904, sec. 241. 1894, ch. 524, sec. 2.

295. Any failure on the part of the said public school commissioners
to comply with the provisions of section 294 shall make them liable to be
removed from office by any court of competent jurisdiction either in the
city of Baltimore or in any county where the schools may be located upon
complaint made to the court under oath or affirmation of not less than five
taxable citizens resident in the said school district in which the school com-
plained of is located; provided, nothing in this and the next preceding sec-
tion shall affect the counties of Caroline, Kent, Dorchester, Sdmerset,
Baltimore, Worcester, Howard, Prince George's and Frederick.

Health—Slaughter of Animals.

An. Code, sec. 263. 1904, sec. 242. 1902, ch. 69, art. 43, sec. 55A.

296. No person shall kill for human food, or shall carry or offer to
any butcher, or at any slaughter-house to be killed for human food, any
female animal within 30 days before the time for the delivery of its young,
or within 30 days thereafter, or any animal that is so far disabled by sick-
ness as to be unable to walk, or any animal known to said person, by reason
of disease or injury, to be unfit for human food; and whenever any of said