HEALTH. 1579

Tuberculosis.

An. Code, sec. 84. 1904, sec. 56. 1904, ch. 412, sec. 34G.

94. The state board of health, of Maryland shall keep a register of all
persons in this State who are known to be afflicted with tuberculosis. The
state board of health shall have sole and exclusive control of said register,
and shall not permit inspection thereof nor disclose any of its personal
particulars except to officials authorized under the laws of Maryland to
receive such information.
See sec. 245, et seq.

1922, ch. 154.

95. The state board of health shall prepare and furnish the local health
officers or the physician attending any person infected with tuberculosis,
upon due requisition, such printed instructions and precautions and such
supplies and materials as it shall deem necessary for the prevention of the
spread of the disease.

An. Code, sec. 94. 1904, sec. 67. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 2. 1916, ch. 242, sec. 94.

96. Whenever any hotel keeper, keeper of a boarding house, lodging
house, superintendent, manager or director of a hospital or private or
public institution of any kind shall know or shall have reason to believe
that any guest, inmate, or other person in the hotel, boarding house, lodging
house, or institution of which he or she may have control or supervision,
or on the premises thereof, is sick with or convalescing from smallpox,
cholera, yellow fever, typhus or typhoid fever, scarlet fever, leprosy or any
other contagious or infectious disease, the said owner, proprietor, manager,
or other person having charge shall immediately give notice thereof in
writing to the health officer of the city, town or county in which the infected
house or premises is located; said notice shall state the name and place of
residence of the sick person, the name of the disease, the name of the owner,
proprietor or manager of the house and the locality of said house, and it
shall be the duty of the local or State health officer, as the case may be, to
take such steps and to do such things as may be necessary to render effective
the provisions of Section 54 to 63 inclusive.1
See sec. 54, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 95. 1904, sec. 68. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 3. 1916, ch. 242, sec. 95.

97. Any person or persons who shall neglect or refuse to comply with
the provisions of the two foregoing sections shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof in a court of competent juris-
diction be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for
every such offense.

An. Code, sec. 96. 1904, sec. 69. 1890, ch. 622, sec. 4. 1916, ch. 242, sec. 96.

98. In any town, village, or other place in this State, where no special
health department has been established or constituted by the Charter or

1 The title of act of 1916, ch. 242, is inaccurate in part.