1534 ARTICLE 43.

ARTICLE 43.

HEALTH.

State Board of Health. 1. Established; members; tenure. 2. Chairman to be director. 3. General duties of board; sanitary in- vestigations; nuisances; injunctions; rules and regulations. 4. State board may administer oaths, sub- poena witnesses, compel attendance and production of books, etc.; re- fusal to comply with order; witness fees; depositions. 5-6. Meetings; shall prescribe rules and . regulations; powers. 7. Secretary (Director) to State Board; duties; salary; removal. 8. State (outside of Baltimore City) di- vided into ten sanitary districts; deputy state health officers. 9. Deputy state health officers; qualifica- tions; term of office; removal; office; salary; expenses. 10-11. Jurisdiction and duties of deputy state health officers. 12. State Board of Health may remove deputy health officers from any sani- tary district into another, and in case of epidemics locate several offi- cers in one district; appointment of inspectors, nurses, etc.; compensa- tion. 13. Appropriation to carry out secs. 3, 4, and 7 to 12. 14. Physicians to report diseases contracted from employment. 15. Chemist to board of health.

State Registrar of Vital Statistics. 16. Who to be registrar; duties. 17-18. County and local registrars of vital statistics; oath; deputies; duties; term of office and conditions under which permit for burial or removal of body may be issued; certificates of birth and death. Duties of sexton or persons in charge of cemetery. 19. Contents of birth and death records; still-born children or those dead at birth. 20. County registrars., duties of. 21. Burial permit; certificate of death; death from infectious disease ; trans- portation of body; transit permits; death outside of United States. 22. Disinterment permits ; how- and when issued. 23. Birth certificates to be furnished. 24. Birth of children without physician, etc.; who to give notice of; duty of local registrar; duty of physicians, undertakers, etc., as to births and deaths. 25. Birth and death records open to inspec- tion under safeguards; duties of county registrar; violations of law. 26. Fees. 27. Certified copies evidence; fee therefor. 28. Penalties; duty of state registrar; spe- cial counsel. 29. Temporary operation by state board, of local registration office.

As to " hospitals," see art. 44. As to " inspections," see art. 48. As to " hours of
labor " and employment of children, see art. 100.

As to diseased fruit and trees, see art. 48, sec. 72, et seq. As to accidents resulting
from an explosion of oil, etc., see art. 48, sec. 5, et seq.

As to " feeding stuffs," see art. 48, sec. 95, et seq.

Re. protection of workmen, et al., against unsafe scaffolding, see art. 48, sec. 90, et seq.

As to " health " conditions in workshops and factories, see art. 27, sec. 278, et seq.

As to provisions for safety, sanitation, health, etc., in or about coal mines, see art. 89,
sec. 162, et seq.