HEALTH 1783

performance of their duties and to make a report quarterly to the board of
the sanitary condition of their respective cities, villages or districts. The
board shall have authority to send their secretary or a committee of the
board to any part of the State at any time when necessary to investigate the
cause of any special or unusual sickness or mortality. In the event of an
epidemic or pestilential disease occurring in any county, city or village of
the State the board shall forthwith cause all needful sanitary measures and
precautions to be taken which the emergency may call for and which may
be consistent with law, and shall be approved by the governor, said approval
to be expressed in writing; and upon the application of said board, with
the approval of the governor, the comptroller is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant upon the treasurer in favor of the board for an amount not
exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of any unappropriated money
in the treasury, to be applied and expended under the direction of the
governor and the said board of health in carrying out such needful sanitary
measures and precautions.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, sec. 5. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 6.

1898, ch. 312. 1914, ch. 675.

5. The Director¹ shall be the State Health Officer and shall hold office
as long as he shall faithfully discharge the duties thereof, but may be
removed for just cause at a regular meeting of the Board, a majority of
the members voting therefor; he shall keep a record of the transactions of
the Board and an account of all expenditures by them; he shall, whenever
necessary or practicable, correspond and consult with health authorities of
other States, and with the local Boards and all health officers in this State
and secure an interchange of all useful sanitary information, especially
respecting the causes, treatment and progress of epidemics; he shall keep
on file all reports received from such Boards and all correspondence relating
to the duties of this Board; he shall prepare blank forms of returns and such
instructions as may be necessary, and forward them to the several local
Boards of Health and all health officers throughout the State; he shall,
when requested by local Boards or any health officers, visit their respective
districts, cities or villages, to investigate the cause of any existing disease,
and shall, from time to time, and whenever directed by the Governor or
the Legislature, make special inspections of public hospitals, asylums,
prisons and other institutions, and shall, at each session of the Legislature,
submit, through the Board, a full report of his investigations, with such
suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper; he shall, when
required by the Governor or other proper authorities, advise in regard to
the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excrement, heating and
ventilation of any public institution or building belonging to the State; he
shall collect information concerning vital statistics, prevailing diseases and
the general hygiene of the State and through an annual report and other-
wise, as the Board may direct, shall disseminate such information among
the people. He shall have general jurisdiction and control over all health
officers, inspectors, agents, nurses and others appointed under the jurisdic-
tion of the State Board of Health, and shall assist and advise them in the
performance of their duties, and shall have and perform such other duties
as the State Board of Health may impose upon him. During his term of
office he shall not engage in the practice of medicine or in any occupation

¹ Ch. 29 of 1923 (p. 64) abolished the office of secretary and provided that the director
of health should exercise all the powers, perform the duties, etc., of the secretary.