HOWARD COUNTY. 3051

the County Commissioners of Howard County; they shall also serve as
vaccine physicians for their respective districts, and it shall be their duty
to vaccinate free of charge any child whose guardian or parents are too
poor to pay for the service. It shall further be the duty of said district
health officers to examine into the sanitary conditions of all highways,
alleys and by-ways in their respective districts, and if the same are found
to be in an unsanitary condition, to report such fact immediately to the
county health officer. Upon request of any school teacher they shall also
examine all primary school children's eyes once a year for refractional
and focal difficulties, and cause the parents or guardian of children whose

eyes are defective to be so informed. They shall examine all exposed parts
of school children at least once a term, or oftener, if requested by the
teacher, for contagious skin diseases, and such children together with those
whom the teacher shall show to have parasites, shall be excluded from
school until they can furnish a certificate from a regular qualified phy-
sician that they are rid of trouble. They shall also act as physicians to
the coroners of their respective districts, and examine indigent insane,
when requested by any officer of the county. No medical services shall
be engaged or employed to carry out the provisions of this act without
the specific order of the Local Board of Health, and no such services shall
be employed without the permission of the Local Board of Health and the
County Health Officer.

1910, ch. 315, sec. 45-I (p. 910).

85. If any person shall knowingly obstruct or resist the County Health
Officer, or any of the District Health Officers of Howard County in the
executions of the powers to them given, or in the performance of the duties

enjoined upon them by law in relation to the public health, such person
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dol-
lars, or be imprisoned, in the discretion of the Court, for not more than
thirty days.

1910, ch. 315, sec. 45J (p. 910).

86. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff or Police Officer of Howard
County to execute all orders of any of the county health authorities, so
far as they relate to the sanitary condition of said county.

1910, ch. 315, sec. 45K (p. 910).

87. Such Local Board of Health shall take cognizance of all unhealthy
nuisances within the limits of Howard County, and any person or cor-
poration refusing or neglecting after reasonable notice to comply with the
requirements of such board in respect to such nuisance shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. If the owner or owners, occupier
or occupiers of property on which any such nuisance exists, shall refuse

or neglect to abate the same after such reasonable notice, the County
Health Officer, after the expiration of the time set out in such notice, shall