HEALTH... 1547

An. Code, sec. 6. 1908, ch. 345.

15. The state board of health shall appoint a suitable person, who shall
have been actually engaged in this State as an analytical chemist for at
least ten years prior to his appointment, as chemist to the state board of
health, who shall hold office as long as he shall faithfully discharge the
duties thereof. The chemist, under the direction and control of the state
board of health and the secretary thereof, shall have charge of the analyses
and examination of foods, drugs and other substances which shall be sub-
mitted to him for examination, and he shall report in writing the result
of his analyses and examination to the secretary. The chemist shall an-
nually make a report to the state board of health of the work done by him
for the previous year. The chemist shall receive from the treasury, in
monthly -payments, an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500.00) to be paid upon the warrant of the comptroller, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 7. 1898, ch. 312.

1912, ch. 696, sec. 6.

16. The secretary of the State Board of Health shall be the State
Registrar of Vital Statistics for Maryland. He shall under the direction
of the State Board of Health prepare the necessary methods, books and
forms for accurate registration of births and deaths and shall supply the
local registrars, deputy local registrars, health officers, ministers, physi-
cians, undertakers, midwives and other persons charged with any duty
under this sub-title, with the proper blanks, forms and books of record.
The State Registrar shall collect, permanently bind, preserve and make
indices to the records of vital statistics collected by him, and shall tabulate
and annually prepare a general abstract and report of the vital statistics
for the preceding year so tabulated and arranged as to render them of
particular utility, and shall have printed not more than one thousand
copies, of which he shall forward five copies each to the Governor and the
State librarian, one to each member of the General Assembly of Maryland,
one to each local health officer, one to each local registrar, one to each
deputy local registrar, one to the Board of Health of each State and terri-
tory of the United States, and the remainder to such departments, libraries,
and persons as may seem to the State registrar entitled to the same. Such
records shall be carefully preserved from loss by fire or other damage.

Marriages and divorces must be reported to the Bureau of Vital Statistics—
art. 62, sec. 16.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 6. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 7. 1898, ch. 312.
1912, ch. 696, sec. 6. 1916, ch. 691, sec. 7.

17. Health officers of the various Counties shall be ex-officio county
registrars of vital statistics. Health officers of all towns of five thousand
population and over shall be ex-officio local registrars of vital statistics.
All county registrars, local registrars and deputy local registrars of vital
statistics shall qualify by oath to perform faithfully their duties as such