1796 ARTICLE 43

midwives and undertakers who have been registered in his district during
the whole or any part of the preceding calendar year; provided, that no
fee or other compensation shall be charged by local registrars to physicians,
midwives or undertakers for registering their names under this section or
making return thereof to the State Registrar.

All superintendents or managers or other persons in charge of hospitals,
almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which per-
sons resort for treatment of diseases or are confined or are committed by
process of law are hereby required to make record of all the personal and
statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their institutions on April
13, 1914, that are required in the forms or the certificates provided for
in sections 16, 18-20, 22-25 and 29, as directed by the State Registrar,
and thereafter such record shall be by them made for all future inmates
at the time of their admission. And in case of persons admitted or com-
mitted for medical treatment of disease the physician in charge shall
specify for entry in the record the nature of the disease and where, in his
opinion, it was contracted. The personal particulars and information re-
quired by this section shall be obtained from the individual himself if it is
practicable to do so, and when they cannot be so obtained they shall be
secured in as complete a manner as possible from relatives, friends or
other persons acquainted with the facts.

This section referred to in upholding validity of sec. 422—see notes thereto. Keining-
ham v. Blake, 135 Md. 321.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 21A. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 19A.

30. The chief of the Bureau of Vital Statistics shall be assistant State
registrar of vital statistics.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

1939, ch. 587.

31. No person shall bring into the State of Maryland or offer for sale,
sell, give away or breed within the limits of this State, parrots, parrakeets,
love birds, macaws, cockatoos, lories, lorikeets and other birds of the
psittacine family; provided that under such rules and regulations as the
State Board of Health may duly pass, zoological gardens operated under
public authority or laboratories, in which scientific research is being
carried out, and any persons who breed psittacine birds for non-com-
mercial purposes, may receive or import birds of the psittacine family.
All birds having psittacosis or which are suspected of being carriers of
psittacosis virus, and all birds of a psittacine family exposed to a bird
having psittacosis or found or harbored on the same premises where in-
fection with psittacosis virus is discovered or suspected, shall be im-
mediately destroyed, under such rules and regulations as the State Board
of Health may pass to carry out the purposes of this section; provided
that, insofar as this Section prohibits the selling or giving away of birds
of the psittacine family, it shall not apply to such birds in the possession
of dealers thereof on June 1, 1939. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Section, or any order or regulation of the State Board
of Health lawfully made pursuant thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall be subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50) for each
offense.