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And provided further that the health officer shall attend all indigent
persons in the said County suffering from contagious diseases.
Cited but not construed in Gordon v. Montgomery County, 164 Md. 213.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 49. 1912, sec. 37. 1904, sec. 26. 1902, chs. 475, 515, sec. 11A.

49. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner or any two
or more persons affected thereby shall make a complaint, in writing to a
local board of health that any water course, well, spring, open ditch, gutter,
cess-pool, drain, privy-pit, pig-pen or other place or any accumulation or
deposit of any substance is in a condition dangerous, to human health, the
said local board of health shall immediately institute an investigation,
and if it shall decide that the place or thing complained of is in such a con-
dition as to injuriously affect the life or health of any person, the said
board shall serve a notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation
by whose act, default or suffer ance the place or thing complained of is in
such a condition as to injuriously affect the life or health of any person,
the said board shall serve a notice in writing on the person, firm or cor-
poration by. whose act, default or sufferance the place or thing complained
of arises or exists, requiring him or them to abate the same within a .time
to be specified in the notice, and any person, firm or corporation refusing
or neglecting to comply with the requirements in such notice shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than one
nor more than ten dollars for the first offense, and for each subsequent
offense in reference to the same place or thing be fined not exceeding
twenty-five dollars. This section not to apply to Baltimore County.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 50. 1912, sec! 38. 1904, sec. 27. 1888, sec. 12. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 5.

50. Such local board of health shall take cognizance of all unhealthy
nuisances within the limits of its sanitary jurisdiction; and any person
or corporation refusing or neglecting, after due notice, to comply with the
requirements of the said board in this respect shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding fifty dollars; all questions arising between local boards as to
jurisdiction or their relative duty in the abatement of any particular
nuisance shall be referred to the. state board of health for settlement.
See sec. 103, et seq.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 51. 1922, ch. 483. 1927, ch. 502.

51. The local boar.d of health of each county may, whenever they shall
deem it necessary or desirable, require that any qualified physician ap-
pointed by such board as county health officer shall be trained in sanitary
science, public health and hygiene and shall not, so long as he shall hold
that office, engage in any other occupation which would conflict with the
performance of his duties as health officer. He shall have all the powers
and duties which are now or may hereafter be conferred upon county health
officers by law; he shall enforce all the public health statutes and rules and
regulations of the State Board of. Health or the local board of health, under
the direct supervision and control of the local board of health, and shall
perform such other duties and exercise such other duties and exercise such
other functions as the local board of health shall direct. The local board
of health may make and enter into a contract with such county health offi-
cer for such period of time as may be mutually agreeable, but not longer
than the terms of office of the members of said local Board of Health and