1562 ARTICLE 43.

sion of disease, quarantine, inspection and sanitation within his jurisdic-
tion. The Mayor and Council or the properly constituted authorities of
any city in which a Board of Health is organized under the provisions of
this section, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect, as
other monies for said city governmental purposes are collected, such funds
as, in their opinion, are necessary and desirable for the purpose of making
effective the provisions of this section.1

An. Code, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 25. 1888, sec. 11. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 4. 1902, ch. 475.
1914, ch. 742. 1916, ch. 202.

48. The Local Board of Health of each County shall meet semi-
annually in the months of May and October, and as much oftener as they
may deem necessary; they shall act in conjunction with the State Board
of Health and shall report to said board such facts in reference to the sani-
tary conditions of their respective Counties as they may deem impor-
tant or necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules and regu-
lations concerning nuisances and causes of sickness within their respective
jurisdiction subject to the provisions of this Article; they may regulate all
fees and charges in connection with their own regulations and shall estab-
lish the salaries of their respective County health officers on the following
maximum bases: not exceeding, in Counties having a population of 15,000
or less, $150 per annum, with an additional allowance of not more than
$100 per annum for each 8,000 of population in excess of 15,000.

Provided, that in Montgomery County it shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners to meet exclusively as a board of health on the first Wed-
nesday of each month; and provided further, that it shall be the duty of
the health officer of said Montgomery County, in addition to those duties
otherwise prescribed by law, in instances of contagion to fumigate all
school and other public buildings, the materials therefor to be provided
by said Board of Health, and provided further that said health officer for
said Montgomery County, shall perform all the duties heretofore required
of the physicians to the jail and the almshouse of said Montgomery County;
and provided further that the salary as health officer for said Montgomery
County shall be $1,200 per annum.

And provided further that the health officer shall attend all indigent
persons in the said County suffering from contagious diseases.

An. Code, sec. 37. 1904, sec. 26. 1902, chs. 475, 515, sec. 11A.

49. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner or any two
or more persons affected thereby shall make a complaint in writing to a
local board of health that any water course, well, spring, open ditch, gutter,
cess-pool, drain, privy-pit, pig-pen or other place or any accumulation or
deposit of any substance is in a condition dangerous to human health, the
said local board of health shall immediately institute an investigation,
and if it shall decide that the place or thing complained of is in such a con-
dition as to injuriously affect the life or health of any person, the said

1 Sec. 2 of ch. 495 of acts of 1920 repeals all laws inconsistent with said ch. 495 to
the extent of such inconsistency.