1542 ARTICLE 43.

1922, ch. 29 (p. 64).

2. The Chairman of the Board shall be known as the Director of Health.
He shall be the executive officer of the Board, and shall receive such com-
pensation as may be allowed in the Budget. On the taking effect of this
Act, all the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions conferred by
Article 43 of the Annotated Code, title " Health," and any sections or pro-
visions thereof, or by any other provisions of law, upon the Secretary of the
State Board of Health, shall be transferred to and thereafter be exercised
and performed by the said Chairman of the Board, as the lawful successor
to the said Secretary, to the same extent and effect as if the said Chairman
had been named in said provisions of the law as the official upon whom the
said rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions were conferred.
Thereupon the office of Secretary of the Board shall cease and be abolished.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1880, ch. 483, sec. 3. 1914, ch. 675.

3. The State Board of Health shall have the general care of the sani-
tary interests of the people of this State; they shall make sanitary investiga-
tions and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and especially epidem-
ics, the causes of mortality and the influence of locality, employments, habits
and other circumstances and conditions upon the health of the people; they
shall inquire into and investigate all nuisances affecting the public health
and are authorized and empowered, by information or petition filed in the
name of the Board, to apply to the Judges or to any Judge of the Circuit
Court for the county in which such nuisance shall exist, or to the Judge of
the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be, in term, time or
vacation, for an injunction to restrain and prevent such nuisance no matter
by whom or what authority committed. They shall have the power to enter
upon and inspect private property in regard to the presence of nuisances,
cases of infectious and contagious diseases and to determine the cause and
source of diseases; to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with law
regulating the character and location of plumbing, drainage, water supply,
disposal of sewage, garbage or other waste material and offensive trades; the
sanitary condition of streets, alleys, outhouses, cesspools and all sanitary
features connected therewith; no rule or regulation, however, to carry a
higher penalty than one hundred dollars for each offense and all such rules
and regulation to bear the seal of the State Board of Health and be attested
by its secretary and be published not less than three times in some daily
newspaper published in the city of Baltimore, such rules and regulations
not to be effective until thirty days after their publication.

This section referred to in holding that a bill filed by county commissioners
of Baltimore county to enjoin Baltimore city from dumping garbage, etc., made
out a case for the relief prayed; demurrer; nuisance. Baltimore v. Board of Health,
139 Md. 216.

See secs. 33 and 34.

An. Code, sec. 2A. 1914, ch. 675.

4. The State Board of Health by any member thereof shall have power
to administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the
attendance of witnesses and production of papers, books, documents and
testimony. In case of the failure of any person to comply with any sub-