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for the previous year. The chemist shall receive from the treasury, in
monthly payments, an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500.00) to be paid, upon the warrant of the comptroller, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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

13. 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. 16. 1912, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 7.
1898, ch. 312. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 6.

14. The Director of the State Board of Health shall be the State
Registrar of Vital Statistics for Maryland. He shall under the direction
of the State Board of Health prepare the necessary methods, books and
forms for accurate registration of births and deaths and shall supply the
local registrars, deputy local registrars, health officers, ministers, physi-
cians, undertakers, midwives and other persons charged with any duty
under this sub-title, with the proper blanks, forms and books of record.
The State Registrar shall collect, permanently bind, preserve and make
indices to the records of vital statistics collected by him, and shall tabulate
and annually prepare a general abstract and report of the vital statistics
for the preceding year so tabulated and arranged as: to render them of
particular utility, and shall have printed not more than one thousand
copies, of which he shall forward five copies each to the Governor and the
State librarian, one to each member of the General Assembly of Maryland,
one to each local health officer, one to each local registrar, one to each
deputy local registrar, one to the Board of Health of each State and terri-
tory of the United States, and the remainder to such departments, libraries,
and persons as may seem to the State registrar entitled to the same. Such
records shall be carefully preserved from loss by fire or other damage.

Marriages and divorces must be reported to the Bureau of Vital Statistics—art. 62,
sec. 18.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1912, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 6. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 7.
1898, ch. 312. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 6. 1916, ch. 691, sec. 7.

15. Health officers of the various Counties shall be ex-officio county
registrars of vital statistics. Health officers of all towns of five thousand
population and over shall be ex-officio local Registrars of vital statistics.
All county registrars, local registrars and deputy local registrars of vital