HEALTH. 1559
ing the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or dele-
terious foods, drugs, medicines, waters, candies and liquors, and regulat-
ing traffic therein within the State of Maryland, and to provide for the
punishment of violations of its provisions and to appropriate an annual
sum of money for the purpose of enforcing this act by adding certain addi-
tional sections to article 43, title ' Health/ sub-title ' Adulteration of Food
and Drink,' of the code of public general laws of Maryland of 1.904, and
to be known as 140A, 140B, 140C, 140D, 140E, 140F, 140G, 140H,
1401, 140J, 140K, 140L, 140M, 140N, and 140O, and repeal sections 122,
123, 124, 140L, 140M, 140N, and 140O, and repeal sections 221 and 222
and 125 of said article 43 of the code of public general laws of Maryland
of 1904, and also to repeal sections 221 and 222 of article 2Y of the code of
public general laws of Maryland of 1904, title ' Crimes and Punishments,'
sub-title ' Health, Deleterious Candy or Cakes,' " and in case of any con-
flict between sections 35 to 44 and the said pure food and drug act the
provisions of the latter shall prevail and control.
See sec. 189, et seq.
An. Code, sec. 28. 1910, ch. 560, sec. 21E (p. 142).
39. The bureau of sanitary engineering shall examine into all public
and private system of water supply and prepare proper maps and draw-
ings of the same for permanent record; it shall examine and patrol as far
as possible the watersheds or catchment basins of all public water systems,
and investigate and report upon all sources of pollution of public and
private water supplies; it shall investigate and report upon all private
and public systems of sewage disposal; it shall inquire into and investigate
the water supply, sewage disposal, ventilation, heating and lighting of
schools, asylums, jails and other public institutions; it shall inquire into
and investigate offensive trades and nuisances, disposal of trades wastes,
sewage and other offensive matters, and devise means for their control and
perform such other duties and exercise such other functions as the state
board of health or the secretary thereof shall designate.
An. Code, sec. 29. 1910, ch. 560, sec. 21F (p. 142).
40. The bureau of vital statistics shall supervise the registration of
births and deaths in the State of Maryland; it shall receive, file and com-
pile all such records, and shall tabulate and publish the same in such form
as shall make them most valuable in the public service; it shall perform
such other duties and exercise such other functions as the state board of
health or the secretary thereof shall designate.
1922, ch. 482, sec. 29A.
41. The bureau of child hygiene shall investigate the causes of infant
mortality and the diseases of pregnancy, parturition, infancy and early
childhood, and shall devise and institute preventive measures for their
control; it shall promote the welfare and hygiene of maternity and in-
fancy ; and perform such other duties and exercise such other functions as
the State Board of Health or the secretary thereof shall designate. Pro-
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