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lines, and upon the recommendation of its Director, and by a majority
vote thereof, it shall appoint a Deputy State Health Officer for each sani-
tary district.

13. Repealed by ch. 360 of the Acts of 1929.

1929, ch. 152, sec. 15A. 1931, ch. 159, sec. 15A.

15A. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health, upon receipt
of reports of the names and addresses of physically handicapped children as
provided for in Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, to, in so far
as possible, cause each such child to be examined by a deputy State health
officer or by any other qualified physician, if without expense to the State,
for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and extent of the physical dis-
ability of each such child and whether or not such child is physically unable
to properly care for itself without assistance and whether or not it can
properly or advantageously be educated in the regular public schools with
normal children, and whether or not it ought to have clinical, therapeutic,
or hospital treatment, and such board shall appropriately classify each
such child according to the nature and degree of its disability and report
such classification and recommendations to the County Board of Educa-
tion wherever such child resides, and also to the State Board of Education.

State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 27. 1912, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 17. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6L.
1912, ch. 696, sec. 17. 1929, ch. 560.

27. The State Registrar may upon request furnish any applicant for
proper purposes a certified copy of the record of any birth or death regis-
tered under the provisions of this sub-title, and any such copy of the rec-
ord of a birth or death, when properly certified by the State registrar to
be a true copy thereof, shall be prima, facie evidence in all courts and places
of the facts therein stated. For each such certified statement he shall
receive a fee of fifty cents, together with payment for the time of search, if
over half an hour, at the rate of fifty cents an hour, to be paid by the appli-
cant. Provided that no charge shall be made for a copy of any certificate
requested by any person formerly in the military, air or naval service of
the United States Government, when such certificate is to be used in con-
nection with any claim such person may have against the said Government,
nor shall any charge be made for any certificate requested by any officer,
agent, commission, board or bureau of the United States Government or
the State of Maryland, or any county or municipality of this State.
Cited but not construed in State v. Hecht Co., 165 Md. 424.

32. Repealed by ch. 360 of the Acts of 1929.
Miscellaneous Provisions.

33. Repealed by ch. 530 of the Acts of 1929.